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…
Merchandising Lessons from Top Marketplaces
Ecommerce merchandising organizes, presents, and highlights products to maximize revenue. The world’s leading ecommerce marketplaces offer powerful…
Improving user experience with pop-ups and gamification
Bad user experience on websites leads to high percentages of abandoned carts. Gamification, the process of applying…
Understanding and troubleshooting failed orders
Running an online store means making sure every part of the shopping experience goes smoothly. So when…
Drupal 11.2.0 is now available
New in Drupal 11.2 The second feature release of Drupal 11 improves backend and frontend performance and…
What is profit margin? How to optimize it for store growth
Your ecommerce store’s success relies on many factors, and profit margin is one of them. When you…
Breaking Boundaries: Building a Tangram Puzzle With (S)CSS
For years, I believed that drag-and-drop games — especially those involving rotation, spatial logic, and puzzle solving…
Nine steps to a successful business strategy
You’ve written a business plan. You’ve chosen a business model. You may have even started selling already….