Let’s Use the Nonexistent ::nth-letter Selector Now
“I think I’m done with reality.” — The Seventh Circle by Architects We’ve all, at some point,…
Choosing the best WooCommerce hosting in 2026: A practical guide
The right host is invisible. Your checkout loads fast, your site stays up during the campaign spike,…
Enhancing Astro With a Markdown Component
There are two ways to enhance Markdown in an Astro project: Through MDX Through a Markdown Component…
New Ecommerce Tools: April 22, 2026
Every week we publish a list of new products and services for ecommerce merchants. This week’s rundown…
Scam Texts Are Creating a Friction Tax for Retailers
Consumers are increasingly ignoring legitimate retail messages, mistaking them for scams. For brands, that hesitation is eroding…
Markdown + Astro = ❤️
Markdown is a great invention that lets us write less markup. It also handles typographical matters like…
A Well-Designed JavaScript Module System is Your First Architecture Decision
Writing large programs in JavaScript without modules would be pretty difficult. Imagine you only have the global…
WooCommerce MCP: Talk to your store like it’s your AI assistant
This is part one of a three-part series on WooCommerce MCP. This post covers what MCP is,…
Q&A with Claudia Pearson
We sat down with illustrator and textile designer Claudia Pearson to learn more about her eponymous and…
How to migrate from Webflow to WooCommerce
Your business has outgrown Webflow. Whether it’s the integration limitations, the lack of data control, or the…
High-converting landing page design for ecommerce (with examples)
There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for the perfect landing page design. Converting visitors into customers is an ongoing…
Looking at New CSS Multi-Column Layout Wrapping Features
Multi-column layouts have not been used to their full potential, mostly because once content exceeded a limit,…
How to start a pet business (best online tips and tools)
The pet industry is growing rapidly, and there’s no holding it back. People love their pets, and…
Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape()
Creating rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles is the basic of CSS. Creating more complex CSS shapes such…
Front-End Fools: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time
April Fools’ Day pranks on the web imply that we’re not trying to fool each other every…
What’s !important #8: Light/Dark Favicons, @mixin, object-view-box, and More
Short n’ sweet but ever so neat, this issue covers light/dark favicons, @mixin, anchor-interpolated morphing, object-view-box, new…
Form Automation Tips for Happier User and Clients
I deployed a contact form that last month that, in my opinion, was well executed. It had…
Generative UI Notes
I’m really interested in this emerging idea that the future of web design is Generative UI Design….
New Ecommerce Tools: March 25, 2026
Our rundown this week of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on predictive intelligence, same-day shipping,…
Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about and experimentation with scroll-driven animations….
JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring
Editor’s note: Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively…
Why OpenAI Acquired Promptfoo
If predictions are correct, AI agents can soon do “real” work, such as adjusting advertising budgets, updating…
Abusing Customizable Selects
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build…
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job,…