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Design & Development
20 Free Ecommerce Icon Sets for Navigation, Design
December 2, 2019 • Sig Ueland
The right set of icons can help a shopper navigate an online store and enhance its overall design. Plenty of icon sets are available from talented designers for no cost. Here is a list of free icon sets for ecommerce stores.
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Ecommerce Design Trends for 2020
November 27, 2019 • Armando Roggio
Dark mode, accessibility, and simple layouts with plenty of white space may be among the most popular ecommerce design trends for 2020. Most of the more than 20 ecommerce professionals contacted for this article believed that 2020 held few significant design-specific trends.
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16 Beautiful, Free Content Sliders
November 11, 2019 • Sig Ueland
A content slider is a helpful tool in web design for highlighting images, delivering a message, and enticing a user with animated elements. Here is a list of content sliders to display images, video, or HTML content.
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19 Free Security Plugins for WordPress
October 28, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of security plugins for WordPress. There are plugins for firewalls, spam protection, two-factor authentication, and more. All of these plugins are free, though several offer premium features.
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12 Sites for Free Stock Video
October 21, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Adding video to your website design, particularly your home page, can engage visitors. But producing original videos can be difficult and expensive. Here is a list of websites to find free stock videos for commercial use.
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Add a Web App Manifest for an Ecommerce PWA
October 10, 2019 • Armando Roggio
Creating and loading a web app manifest file is among the first steps toward transforming an ecommerce website into a progressive web app — PWA — that can be installed on a mobile device, similar to a native app, with an icon on the home screen.
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11 Photoshop Alternatives for Image Editing
October 7, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Impactful photos are an essential aspect of any merchant’s online store. While Adobe Photoshop has long been the industry standard for editing images, there are a variety of free or inexpensive applications with comparable tools. Here is a list of alternatives to Photoshop.
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Chrome’s ‘Mixed Content’ Updates Could Impact Ecommerce Sites
October 7, 2019 • Hamlet Batista
Google Chrome just announced important changes that could impact ecommerce. The changes address "mixed content" — sites with HTTP and HTTPS resources. In this post, I'll review steps to ensure the changes do not affect your ecommerce site come January.
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13 Prototyping Tools to Create Web and Mobile Apps
September 30, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Prototyping tools can help create a website or app with little cost and relative ease — from a rough design idea to a finished product. Here is a list of prototyping tools to build sites and apps for desktop and mobile devices.
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Helpful Tips for Improving Your Mobile Ecommerce Site
September 18, 2019 • David Shreni
My first suggestion for optimizing your website for mobile devices is to visit your local smartphone store. Target, Best Buy, Walmart, AT&T — you name it — your local phone store is the one place you can quickly experience your own site across the myriad of devices.
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22 Free Web Design Tools from Summer 2019
September 16, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from summer 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All are free.
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20 Chrome Extensions for Web Design
September 3, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of Chrome extensions for design. There are tools to find the right font, develop color palettes, discover and create inspirational images, customize graphics, measure elements, and analyze your pages as well as your competitors'.
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15 Useful Typography Tools and Resources
August 12, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Improving the typography of your website is easy and inexpensive. Here is a list of tools and resources for typography. There are inspirational galleries with real-world examples, tools to create or identify your ideal font, and design forums to get help from your peers.
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21 Free Tools to Test Your Website
July 22, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of free tools to test your website. There are tools to measure download speed, test accessibility, locate broken links, evaluate search engine and browser compatibility, and check mobile-friendliness.
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13 Free Open-source Content Management Systems
July 8, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of open-source content management systems. Many have large developer communities that provide platform updates and thousands of themes and extensions. All of the systems are free, though they also offer paid plans for hosting services.
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16 New and Updated Online Video Tools
July 2, 2019 • Sig Ueland
For merchants who want to create, edit, and distribute videos, there are plenty of new innovative online tools for little or no expense. Here is a list of new and updated tools from online video platforms and social media applications. There are tools for editing, live streaming, collaboration, analytics, distribution, and video advertising.
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Optimize Responsive Product Images with SRCSET
June 25, 2019 • Armando Roggio
Online retailers may have an image problem. In many cases, the images they need to sell a product are so large and so slow-to-load that they are driving shoppers away. Fortunately, a simple HTML attribute could significantly improve site performance.
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After Magento 1, build something special
June 24, 2019 • Richard Stubbings
Magento will soon stop supporting version 1. Many ecommerce businesses running Magento 1 will be looking for alternatives. There is no shortage of recommendations and advice. Leading contenders include Shopify, WooCommerce, and Open Cart, among others. All have strengths and weaknesses.
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20 Free Web Design Tools from Spring 2019
June 10, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from spring 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these are free.
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18 Free Themes for WooCommerce
June 4, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of themes for WooCommerce. There are multipurpose themes and themes for niche businesses. All are free, though several offer premium features as well.
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15 Plugins to Improve WordPress Search
May 13, 2019 • Sig Ueland
WordPress is a flexible content management system, but its default site search doesn’t support taxonomies, custom post types, or custom fields. Here is a list of plugins to improve the internal search on your WordPress site.
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13 Free Learning Resources for Designers, Developers
May 6, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of free online learning resources for designers and developers. There are tutorial sites, informative trade blogs, technical sites, educational games for designers and developers, and courses from a traditional university.
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17 Instagram Accounts for Design, Color, Illustration, More
April 29, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of Instagram feeds to follow for all aspects of web design, including color, illustration, animation, photography, typography, and storytelling. The accounts are from independent designers and artists, design studios, and creative ad agencies.
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Moving Data May Become Software’s Best Feature
April 22, 2019 • Armando Roggio
The commerce technology stack is changing. And the ability to move information from one system or platform to another is, perhaps, the essential feature mid-sized or enterprise businesses should look for in software providers.
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How to Make Images Load Faster
April 16, 2019 • Armando Roggio
Images impact the load time of a website. The faster the site, the better the user experience, leading to conversions and profits. In this piece, I'll offer suggestions for optimizing images. The goal is to create an attractive experience without bogging down performance.
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The Case for Optimizing Image Performance
April 12, 2019 • Armando Roggio
For ecommerce, pictures can showcase products, inspire customers, and boost conversion rates. For web performance, however, pictures can hurt page load times and, thereby, the user experience. In March 2019, the ...
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7 Reasons to Consider a Headless CMS
April 9, 2019 • Armando Roggio
There are many reasons for a business to consider a headless content management system. Among them are a need to use content in multiple channels, a desire for improved customization, and relief from a cluttered, conventional platform.
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How to Stop Sniply and Similar Services from Framing Your Content
March 19, 2019 • Armando Roggio
Social sharing tools such as Sniply, Backly, and similar put other companies' ads right on top of your popular and well-prepared content. But you don't have to let it happen. There are ways to stop these services from "framing" your content.
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20 Free Web Design Tools from Winter 2019
March 15, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Add value to your website by utilizing free resources from the design community. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from winter 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these are free.
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13 Instagram Accounts for UX, UI Design
March 11, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Instagram is a good place to find inspiration and insight on web design. The visual platform is full of user experience and user interface designers sharing their work. Here is a list of UX and UI feeds to follow on Instagram. The feeds are from freelance designers, in-house designers, agencies and, resource sites.
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