Design & Development
The nuts and bolts of an ecommerce site are design and development. We address design innovation and trends — including layouts, colors, photography, logos, video, and more. We explain the basics of code — HTML, CSS, JavaScript — as well as platforms, themes, plugins, open source, and related topics.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for generative AI, virtual commerce, product image tools, customer experience platforms, blockchain payment solutions, and drone deliveries.
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Platforms & Apps
Build Your Own Ecommerce Platform in 2025
December 8, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Advances in composable commerce allow even smaller merchants to pick and choose the right apps for their businesses.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: December 5, 2024
December 5, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on virtual stores, tax management, cross-border commerce, circular packaging, sponsored products, product images, and more.
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Schools & Resources
Books on Business, Money, Success, and Failure
December 3, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Our 12 handpicked titles address massive successes, epic failures, intrigue, disruption, history, technology, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 28, 2024
November 28, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Our rundown this week includes updates on ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, search engines, APIs, reverse logistics, and local delivery.
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Platforms & Apps
Perplexity Shopping Tests Ecommerce SMBs
November 21, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Perplexity's shopping assistant will likely make buying easier for consumers while complicating existing ecommerce businesses.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New merchant tools this week include local search marketing, video generators, AI-powered shopping assistants, email marketing tools, conversational commerce, online review tools, and influencer marketing.
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User Experience
Charts: Website Accessibility Trends 2024
November 20, 2024 • Adel Boukarroum
A new report by Crownpeak and London Research identifies the digital accessibility plans and challenges of E.U. and U.S. organizations.
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Schools & Resources
9 Books to Strengthen Cybersecurity
November 18, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Our curated selection from industry experts covers the psychology of cyber attackers, practical defense strategies, and much more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 14, 2024
November 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes new tools for holiday marketing campaigns, drone deliveries, analytics, search, video generators, and AI-based platforms.
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Design & Dev Tools
New Web Design Tools, November 2024
November 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This month's rundown includes new video editors, page builders, whiteboards, drawing tools, testing platforms, and a selection of new fonts.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 7, 2024
November 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for website builders, SMS marketing, AI-powered shopping assistants, reverse logistics, social commerce, and cross-border transactions.
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Platforms & Apps
Top AI Search Engine Features, Compared
November 4, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Prominent and not-so prominent-providers are remaking search with advanced tools, large language models, and more.
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Schools & Resources
Notable Business Books in 2024
October 31, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Our sampling of noteworthy new business titles on one or more prominent "best books" lists.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 31, 2024
October 31, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: ecommerce storefronts, buy-now pay-later, AI-powered assistants, fraud prevention, search engine optimization, logistics, and seller ratings.
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Platforms & Apps
Top WooCommerce Extensions to Grow a Store
October 29, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Our handpicked list of 20 tools will drive traffic, streamline operations, and grow revenue.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 24, 2024
October 24, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes tools for generative AI ads, digital marketing, local search, product returns, cross-border shipping, and holiday marketing campaigns.
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Platforms & Apps
Merchants’ Guide to Metaverse Platforms
October 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
For brands and merchants, metaverse platforms are worth following as opportunities in the new economies unfold.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 17, 2024
October 17, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New releases this week include tools for AI-powered shopping assistants, video creation, search engines, payment platforms, financing, and user-generated content.
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Schools & Resources
New Books to Grow (or Sell) a Business, Fall 2024
October 16, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Our picks of new titles for merchants address AI tactics, communicating with customers, personalization, selling the company, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New AI Apps Reinvent Ecommerce Video
October 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Generate video from text, edit short clips from a single long-form source, produce product videos from static images, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
Report: Gen AI to Transform Operations, Revenue
October 13, 2024 • Armando Roggio
A 2023 McKinsey study analyzed generative AI's potential impact on operations, productivity, revenue, profits, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 10, 2024
October 10, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for visual search, AI, payments, shipping, warehouse management, and automated marketing campaigns.
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Platforms & Apps
13 New AI Productivity Tools for SMBs
October 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New tools for email marketing, audience research, project and team management, AI assistants, voice-powered dictation, and video production.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 3, 2024
October 3, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for search ad campaigns, financing, collecting reviews, supply-chain management, and cross-border shipping.
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Schools & Resources
Book Excerpt: ‘Buyer Personas: Insights into Customer Decisions’
October 1, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Organizations that listen and respond to buyers earn more business. A new book from Wiley urges marketers to lead that effort.
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User Experience
Beardbrand’s Lawyer Recaps ADA Lawsuit
September 27, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Beardbrand recently prevailed in a lawsuit alleging violations of accessibility laws. The company's attorney shares the details.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: September 26, 2024
September 26, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: AI assistants, video ads, website builders, multichannel fulfillment, composable commerce, B2B financing, and cross-border and last-mile logistics.
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Design & Dev Tools
Free Web Design Tools from Summer 2024
September 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This installment of our quarterly rundown includes new design tools for AI video, vector collections, website builders, analytics, animation editors, converters, UI components, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
The Best Use of AI for Business
September 20, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Software engineer Jacob Posel explains how AI can streamline operational processes and enhance creativity.
Prime Day's Mobile AOV Challenge
Keywords Don't Work for AI SEO
How to Survive a Million-Dollar Loss
USPS Rate Change Analysis July 2025
Llms.txt Could Help AI Find Your Store
The End of Traffic-Only Content
SEO for AI, Low Traffic, No Clicks
Tariff Turmoil: How Ecommerce Brands Can Still Win