Belgian ecommerce worth 18 billion euros
Last year, Belgian consumers spent 18.3 billion euros online. Compared to a year earlier, this is an…
‘Ecommerce remains the growth engine of German retail’
Online spending in Germany continues to grow. The German Retail Federation (HDE) forecasts nominal ecommerce revenue to…
Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript!
Recently, Juan Diego Rodríguez published an excellent article exploring how far CSS can be pushed to build a semantic…
Better Product Images Build Buyer Trust in Resale Marketplaces
As resale marketplaces grow, a platform’s ability to process and verify visuals at the point of upload…
Cautious Shoppers Reward Clear Value
Recent quarterly earnings reports from Walmart, Costco, and Dollar Tree suggest that consumers are still spending, but…
Creating a VCF Workload Domain Fails
VCF June 4, 2026 Creating a VCF Workload Domain Fails Read moreDrupal 8.8.0 is available Not enough…
offset-path
The offset-path property in CSS defines a movement path for an element to follow during animation. This…
@custom-media
The CSS @custom-media at-rule allows creating aliases for media queries. This is particularly valuable if you have…
@function
The @function at-rule defines CSS custom functions. These custom functions are reusable blocks of CSS that can…
Why European Ecommerce Fails in the U.S.
Growing up and working in Europe taught me an important lesson about ecommerce: what succeeds there often…
::search-text
The CSS ::search-text pseudo-element selects matching text from your browser’s “find in page” feature. For example, if you use…
Amazon invested 17 billion euros in UK
Last year, ecommerce giant Amazon invested more than 17 billion euros (15 billion British pounds) in the…
TikTok Shop evolves into a pan-European marketplace
TikTok Shop is expanding rapidly across Europe. On June 15, the platform will launch in Austria, Belgium,…
Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework
In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in…
FAQs for Google’s ‘Preferred Sources’
Google’s recently announced “preferred sources” feature is not exactly new. The feature, which allows searchers to designate…
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More
What’s !important #12 talks about the old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new…
Zalando partners with Vestiaire Collective
Online fashion platform Zalando has partnered with French second-hand platform Vestiaire Collective. The partnership is an effort…
2 Bootstrapped D2C Brands, 1 CEO
For four years Eric Steckling has run two direct-to-consumer brands. Brio, the company he founded in 2014,…
How Content Marketers Misuse GenAI
The best genAI content is verified and scrutinized by humans. Generative AI can make content marketing faster,…
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing
Some text effects are relatively hard to pull in CSS, the main reason being we are unable…
WooCommerce 10.8: Stable, faster, and ready for WordPress 7.0
WooCommerce 10.8 includes compatibility updates, performance improvements, and a handful of small fixes that shoppers will feel…
‘One in five Spanish ecommerce sellers on TikTok Shop’
TikTok Shop has established a strong position in Spain’s ecommerce market in a relatively short time. Both…
‘JD.com eyes Very Group takeover’
JD.com is looking to make another move to strengthen its position in the European ecommerce market. The…
Technical Writing in the AI Age
This isn’t coming out of nowhere: More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a…