Free shipping in ecommerce: Tactics to boost sales and AOV
If customers want anything from their shipping, they want it to be free. DigitalCommerce 360’s 2024 survey…
The No-Surprise 3PL Pricing Model
John Melizanis believes third-party logistics fees often produce surprise charges. Per-item pricing for picks, packs, and receiving…
5 Ecommerce Platforms for Startups 2025
Ecommerce entrepreneurs getting started in 2025 should look for easy-to-use platforms that won’t bust the budget. The…
Facebook ‘Megaphone’ Powers D2C Watch Brand
Nate Lagos is vice president of marketing for Original Grain, a direct-to-consumer watch maker. He relies on…
How to Discover a CSS Trick
Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Michelangelo described his sculpting process as chiseling away superfluous material…
Prime Day’s Mobile AOV Challenge
Amazon’s Prime Day 2025 event set a new benchmark outside of the popular marketplace. Amazon was humming…
Control your ecommerce costs with flexible hosting
Most ecommerce platforms bundle costs you can’t control For midmarket and enterprise businesses, strategic cost control of…
Getting Creative With Versal Letters
A while back, our man Geoff Graham treated us to a refresher on the CSS initial-letter property,…
Harper Reinvents the Stack To Power High-Speed Digital Commerce
In a digital-first world where milliseconds can make or break a sale, sluggish web performance remains a…
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! While the survey isn’t directly related to the code part of…
Ecommerce essentials, reimagined
A better checkout. One-click buying. More local payments. We’ve updated some of the core WooCommerce capabilities to…
Transforming Retail With Autonomous Intelligence
As retailers continue to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve their business, agentic AI represents a…
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)
First, what is line length? Line length is the length of a container that holds a body…
Llms.txt Could Help AI Find Your Store
A proposed standard would guide large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to relevant web…
How Luna Glamping builds a high-ticket B2B funnel with WooCommerce and Google
Luna Glamping produces luxury domes and tents for the hospitality industry and occasional personal use. Since 2015,…
Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading
Scroll-driven animations are great! They’re a powerful tool that lets developers tie the movement and transformation of…
WooCommerce pricing: How much does it cost to run a store?
WooCommerce is more than just a popular ecommerce plugin for WordPress. It’s a highly-flexible, open source ecommerce…
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable
Four years ago, I wrote an article titled Minding the “gap”, where I talked about the CSS…
CSS Blob Recipes
Blob, Blob, Blob. You hate them. You love them. Personally, as a design illiterate, I like to…
What are business goals? How to use the SMART approach to create them
People start businesses for all kinds of reasons. Some want to fill a need in the market. Others…
Westwing enters more European markets
German seller of furniture and home decorations Westwing has recently entered three new markets. It has launched…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 26, 2025
This installment of our weekly rundown of new products and services for merchants includes rollouts for video,…
Poking at the CSS if() Function a Little More: Conditional Color Theming
Chrome 137 shipped the if() CSS function, so it’s totally possible we’ll see other browsers implement it,…
The ultimate guide to naming your online store
What’s in a name? More than you might think. The name of your online store is one…