Prime Day Has Remade the Retail Calendar
After 11 years, Amazon Prime Day has trained shoppers to look for summer sales in much the…
Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working?
If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions…
Pinwheel CEO on Selling Kid-Safe Phones
In 2019 Dane Witbeck had a problem familiar to parents: What were his kids doing on their…
AI Turns Ecommerce Design into Reality
Ecommerce websites consist of themes and templates made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Executives typically define the…
What Happens When AI Becomes the Buyer?
AI agents are moving beyond assisting with purchases to making them, raising new questions about trust, marketing,…
5 Content Marketing Ideas for July 2026
From America’s 250th birthday to back-to-school preparation, July 2026 offers plenty for content marketers seeking to connect…
Engineer Quits, Launches Online Art School
Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she…
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…
Cautious Shoppers Reward Clear Value
Recent quarterly earnings reports from Walmart, Costco, and Dollar Tree suggest that consumers are still spending, but…
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…
Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework
In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in…
How Content Marketers Misuse GenAI
The best genAI content is verified and scrutinized by humans. Generative AI can make content marketing faster,…
‘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…
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
How GenAI Platforms Produce Answers
Google’s recent AI optimization guidelines apply only to its search portal with AI Overviews and AI Mode, and…
Digital Catalogs Become Adaptive Commerce Tools
Many digital catalogs still prioritize visual design over shopper behavior, limiting their ability to drive conversions. Digital…
New Ecommerce Tools: May 20, 2026
This installment of our weekly rundown of new services for merchants includes rollouts for quick commerce, SMS…
Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions
I wasted an entire Saturday on this. Not a lazy Saturday either, but one of those rare,…
Google Says AI Optimization Is Just SEO
Google has finally published guidance for AI optimization. Yet “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on…
AI is shifting commerce — here’s what 225 leaders told us they’re betting on
We set up a booth at Stripe Sessions 2026 and asked 225 commerce leaders where agentic commerce…
Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS
CSS math isn’t just about how things look! It can also be used to work out useful…
AI Reshapes Print-on-Demand Ecommerce
Starting a print-on-demand ecommerce business has never been easier — or more difficult. On the one hand,…
rotateX()
The CSS rotateX() function rotates an element around the x-axis in a three-dimensional space. Specifically, it vertically flips the…
rotateY()
The CSS rotateY() function rotates an element around its vertical y-axis. Specifically, it horizontally flips an element from left…