What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and…
Email Open Bloat and Deliverability
The goal of email deliverability is to ensure messages reach recipients’ inboxes, avoiding spam folders or outright…
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
You closed a dialog and the console went that particular shade of angry mustard. You highlighted the…
3 AI Prompts for Google Ads
Artificial intelligence is core to Google Ads, but for advertisers, account management goes beyond the platform. Powerful…
Using and Styling the Dialog Element
Wasn’t it great — nay, amazing – the day we got a native HTML <dialog> element? It’s,…
What to Know about Listicles
List-style articles are popular because they’re easy to read and understand. Examples are lists of solution providers,…
Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New
For a long time now, web developers have had to use border and pseudo-element hacks to style…
Email Pro: Open Rate Is a Vanity Metric
Nabeel Azeez runs a Dubai-based email marketing agency with clients in ecommerce, SaaS, and more. He emphasizes…
WooCommerce security: Keep your store safe by catching problems early
You’re scrolling through your news feed when a headline grabs your attention: The North Face has experienced…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 29, 2026
Our rundown this week of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on post-purchase, in-game commerce, payment…
BigCommerce alternatives: Why it might be time to switch
On June 1, BigCommerce renamed every plan, lowered the GMV thresholds, and added a fee of up…
Native AI Search Is Only Half the Battle for E-Commerce Brands
Shopify launched its AI-powered semantic search functionality in early 2024, giving Shopify Plus merchants more accurate and…
Amazon Isn’t the Only U.S. Entry Channel
I speak with many international merchants looking to enter the U.S. market. Nearly all of them plan…
Optimizing Crawl Budgets: What’s New
Google’s newly updated “Crawling infrastructure” documentation includes “Optimize your crawl budget,” a section with pointers on how…
WooCommerce is the foundation of our entire ecosystem
We just kicked off a large effort, and I want to post about it here because you’re…
Publishers Can Turn to Ecommerce
Publishers and media companies facing AI-fueled disruptions to traffic and revenue may find new revenue opportunities in…
writing-mode
The writing-mode CSS property sets whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically, and the…
Why Meta Descriptions Still Matter
Google once exclusively used meta descriptions for organic search snippets. Optimizing the descriptions aimed to entice searchers…
Deep Product Data Is the New SEO in the Age of AI Discovery
Small and midsize e-commerce brands face growing challenges as AI-driven discovery, social commerce, and conversational search change…
pointer-events
The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 15, 2026
This week’s installment of new services for merchants includes updates on product videos, shipping, recommerce, social marketing,…
Meet your customers where they’re already deciding with Reddit Ads for WooCommerce
When a shopper goes online and researches “the best noise-canceling headphones under $200,” they’re often forgoing sponsored…
Why Google’s Universal Cart Means Brands Must Sell to AI, Not Humans
Google made one of its biggest moves yet in agentic commerce in May when it introduced Universal…
AI Marketing Looks Familiar
AI’s emergence has created ecommerce marketing opportunities, yet the fundamental tactics remain. Consider four traditional promotion channels:…