Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025
Author’s Note: There are already wonderful recaps of the Web Directions Developer Summit I spoke at in…
How to create buyer personas for your online store
It’s always important to truly understand your target customer. What do their day-to-day lives look like? What…
When Heavy Products Make Global Sense
Many ecommerce businesses sell products that do not fit in a flat-rate envelope, so to speak. Fitness…
GSC Groups Keywords as AI Queries Expand
Google Search Console’s “Insights” section no longer shows click trends for individual keywords. It now displays trends…
New Ecommerce Tools: December 17, 2025
This week’s rundown of new products and services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, marketplaces,…
The Top Conversion Barrier in the E.U.
European consumers shop amid strict regulatory transparency and protection. Since its inception in 2018, the E.U. General…
Prepare your business for 2026 EU tax changes
In today’s world of borderless online shopping, charging the right taxes at the right time for customers…
WooCommerce product types: a complete guide
Online stores sell much more than just physical items. That’s why the world’s most popular ecommerce store…
How U.S. Merchants Fail E.U. Consumers
U.S. merchants eyeing European expansion see 450 million consumers unified under common trade regulations. The reality is…
Shoppers Favor Product Content Over Brand Loyalty
More than four out of five consumers agree that high-value content — detailed descriptions, multiple images and…
Why B2B checkout is not one size fits all
This post was written in collaboration with Fortis, an embedded payments platform that integrates directly with WooCommerce…
‘Amazon now second-largest online retailer in Belgium’
Only three years after launching a dedicated online store for Belgium, Amazon has grown into the country’s…
Should We Even Have :closed?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot of entries on pseudo-selectors in CSS, like ::picker() or ::checkmark….
New Ecommerce Tools: November 19, 2025
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
New GSC ‘Insights’ Show Trends, Status
Google has relaunched the “Insights” section in Search Console. The section doesn’t provide data unavailable in other…
How Bot-to-Bot Commerce Is Rewriting the Rules of Retail
Picture this: It’s Black Friday 2027, and retail’s biggest “customer” isn’t a soccer mom hunting for deals…
New Ecommerce Tools: November 12, 2025
This week’s installment of new products and services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, multichannel…
Etsy Merchant Eyes Shopify, Dual Brands
Kevlyn Walsh is a Denver-based art teacher turned entrepreneur. She launched Festive Gal, an Etsy shop, in…
Build customer trust and loyalty by syncing online and in-store orders with Square
Retail isn’t just about ringing up sales anymore; it’s about stitching together moments of customer trust from…
Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid
Making a tab interface with CSS is a never-ending topic in the world of modern web development….
CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship
Modern CSS has great ways to position and move a group of elements relative to each other,…
An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions
Editor’s note: Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively…
Seven holiday shipping strategies to boost sales
The holiday rush brings major sales for WooCommerce stores, but it also comes with higher expectations from…
Google’s AI Reshapes Organic Listings
Google is quickly changing organic search results as it integrates AI. Thus far, the new features have…