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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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Design & Development
Notable Views: Mobify CEO on Mobile Commerce

April 20, 2011 • PEC Staff

Editor's Note: "Notable Views” is a series where we ask leading experts to address critical, ecommerce-related topics. For this installment, we corresponded with Igor Faletski, a mobile-commerce authority and CEO of Mobify, a mobile development firm. "Retailers Retool Sites to Ease Mo...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: SteelHouse CEO Mark Douglas

April 19, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite books and blogs and tell us why they read them. For this installment, we corresponded with Mark ...
Platforms & Apps
Internet Explorer 10 Is Coming

April 18, 2011 • Armando Roggio

Microsoft released a preview version of its forthcoming Internet Explorer 10 web browser at the MIX11 developer conference in Las Vegas last week. The browser preview provides important insights into what might be a new salvo in the browser wars and could affect how online businesses develop websites and applications.
Schools & Resources
Reading List: DYMO Endicia Founder Amine Khechfe

April 13, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. For this installment, we corresponded with ...
Design & Development
Optimizing an Ecommerce Site for Mobile Devices, Part 4: Implementation and Launch

April 11, 2011 • PEC Staff

Editor's Note: In September 2010 we published "Volunteer for a Free Mobile-Optimized Ecommerce Site," soliciting merchants to volunteer for a mobile optimization case study in which we follow the process of creating a mobile site step-by-step. Dozens of merchants submitted their sites, ...
Design & Development
Denial-of-Service Attack: Steps to Prevent, Defend

April 6, 2011 • Michael Stearns

If you own an ecommerce website, about the last place you want to find yourself is on the receiving end of a distributed denial of service — DDoS — attack. A DDoS attack involves a malicious person(s) flooding a computer network or web server with so much traffic that it no longer func...
Code
What Makes HTML5 Special?

April 4, 2011 • Armando Roggio

HTML5 promises to make the Internet more functional and interactive. It seeks to transform a World Wide Web of relatively flat, static pages into one filled with web applications —
Design & Development
Cookies Make Shoppers Feel Welcome

March 28, 2011 • Armando Roggio

In web development, a "cookie" stores basic user information on the user's own computer, potentially improving the browsing experience and even making visitors to an ecommerce site feel more welcome. Cookies are often used to save a visitor's username and password so that the visitor d...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: Ji Kim of DiJiPop

March 25, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. In this installment, we corresponded with ...
Platforms & Apps
Miva Merchant President on Acquisitions, SaaS Moves

March 22, 2011 • PEC Staff

Miva Merchant launched its shopping cart in the late 1990s and the company's evolution continues. An independent investor group acquired Miva Merchant in 2007, and executives there have since been evolving that product to a hosted platform, enhancing the company's revenue, and generally...
Schools & Resources
An Introduction to Flash Cookies; How to Manage Them

March 16, 2011 • PEC Staff

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed "Do Not Track" legislation has generated a lot of interest in how websites track visitor behavior. In this article, I am going to introduce Flash cookies and explain how they may be used to violate consumer's privacy. What Is a Flash Cookie...
Platforms & Apps
Mobile Devices to Alter Retail Landscape; 3 Predictions

March 16, 2011 • Armando Roggio

Internet-enabled mobile devices are going to have a huge impact on retail sales in just the next few years, especially affecting small ecommerce businesses. Anytime one discusses the future of a particular industry or where a trending technology or behavior may be taking some segment, ...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: 1SaleADay CEO Ben Federman

March 15, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. In this installment, we corresponded with Ben ...
Design & Dev Tools
30 Yahoo! and Bing Tools for Ecommerce Businesses

March 15, 2011 • PEC Staff

Google may have the biggest impact on the web overall with tools and products that have become indispensable. But Google’s competitors, Yahoo! and Bing, offer a wide array of free tools that ecommerce merchants often underutilize. Take advantage of all the tools that every major search ...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: iGoDigital President Eric Tobias

March 11, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. For this installment, we corresponded with ...
Code
5 CSS-Generating Tools To Help with Small Code Tasks

March 10, 2011 • PEC Staff

Merchants know that the code and script languages that power ecommerce sites are difficult to learn and are best left to developers. But the do-it-yourself ethos is at the heart of ecommerce. For that occasional small code adjustment — where hiring a developer is too expensive — code-ge...
Platforms & Apps
Magento Releases Hosted, SaaS Version

March 9, 2011 • Armando Roggio

Magento, the open-source ecommerce platform, officially launched a hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) version. The Magento platform — in my view — is one of the most robust and effective ecommerce solutions available. If, in fact, Magento has any drawbacks or weaknesses, it is that ...
Design & Development
Google Translate Launches iPhone App; Machine Translations Improve

March 3, 2011 • Jeff Muendel

Google has recently released a Google Translate app for iPhone. The real-time language translation app was previously available as a browser-based app, and as an Android app, but now it is available as a native iPhone app. It is condensed from the full, desktop version of Translate, and...
Platforms & Apps
New Firefox 4 Mobile Released

February 28, 2011 • Armando Roggio

Last week, Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Nokia Maemo-based mobile devices that is reported to be more than twice as fast as the devices' native web browsers. Earlier versions of Firefox for mobile have had some challenges with stability and perfor...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume

February 23, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. In this installment, we corresponded with Christian ...
User Experience
10 Effective Mobile Ecommerce Designs

February 22, 2011 • Armando Roggio

Smart phones are everywhere. And — for many ecommerce merchants — it is not enough to have just an ecommerce website. They want an ecommerce mobile site, too. In this article, I have collected ten examples of what I believe are effectively designed mobile ecommerce designs, as viewed f...
Design & Development
12 Website Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make

February 19, 2011 • Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

You may be on your first website. But more likely you're faced with redesigning a website that isn't functioning as well as it should. I see 12 vital decisions involved with developing a website, and I want to explain them with you in mind:
Design & Dev Tools
32 Google Tools for Ecommerce Businesses

February 15, 2011 • PEC Staff

There is a steady stream of products and tools coming out of Google Labs. Many of these are free — and underutilized — by the community that would most benefit: ecommerce businesses. Need up-to-the-minute financial data? There’s a Google tool for that. Need to translate a product descr...
Platforms & Apps
10 Innovative Digital-Download Stores

February 14, 2011 • Armando Roggio

The Holy Grail of ecommerce is to create a product once and sell it over and over again. Many online stores are achieving this goal by focusing on downloadable products like source code, graphics, PDF files, or ebooks just, to name a few of the digital products available. In this arti...
Code
9 CSS Codes that Ecommerce Merchants Need to Know

February 10, 2011 • PEC Staff

Although CSS code is more complicated than HTML, it ultimately gives merchants much more flexibility in formatting and style for websites. Just a rudimentary understanding of cascading style sheets can open up new possibilities for the way text and images function on your site. Embed ph...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo

February 9, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. For this installment, we corresponded with ...
Design & Development
17 Solutions to Build Your Own Mobile App

February 8, 2011 • PEC Staff

You don’t have to be a web developer to build your own mobile app for your site. If your budget does not allow for a full custom app or you just want to try a mobile app on for size and test the app marketplace, these app building tools will help you get up and running. Non-developers,...
Platforms & Apps
Google Chrome Links to New Web App Store

February 7, 2011 • Armando Roggio

Google recently announced several changes to version 9 of its popular Chrome browser, including closer ties to a web store featuring products that blur the line between websites and web applications further and give ecommerce marketers a new sales channel. Google has said in the past t...
Design & Development
Google Docs Adds Capabilities for Mobile Users

February 2, 2011 • Jeff Muendel

Google announced in Sept. 2010 that it would add editing capabilities to Google Docs for the iPad, iPhone, and Android. By allowing users to collaborate and co-edit documents and files from a wider range of devices, the users will no longer need to rely on third party apps like Quickoff...
Schools & Resources
Reading List: Adyen CEO Peter Caparso

February 2, 2011 • PEC Staff

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they read them. In this installment, we spoke to ...

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