New Ecommerce Tools: August 28, 2025
This week’s rundown of new products and services from vendors of ecommerce merchants includes AI-generated product images,…
SMB Marketing Strategies To Sustain End-of-Summer Sales
Summer may be ending, but consumer demand isn’t. Small retailers can turn seasonal inventory into revenue with…
Cart abandonment is quietly killing your revenue – Here’s how to get it back
Every business knows cart abandonment only too well. In fact, just three out of ten shoppers who…
3D Layered Text: The Basics
Recently, a client asked me to create a bulging text effect. These are exactly the kinds of…
Covering hidden=until-found
Filing this in the “Missed First Time Around” category. It popped up in the Firefox 139 release…
Compare the top multichannel marketplaces behind fast-growing brands
Selling on an ecommerce platform like WooCommerce gives you the greatest amount of control over your own…
Getting Creative With Quotes
Block quotes and pull quotes are useful for punctuating solid blocks of running text. They’re also two…
AI Shopping Tools Threaten Affiliates
Chatbots and AI shopping tools that generate gift ideas and recommend products could disrupt affiliate marketing and…
Keeping Article Demos Alive When Third-Party APIs Die
After four years, the demos in my “Headless Form Submission with the WordPress REST API” article finally…
How to create a winning social media marketing strategy for your online store
Social media is a powerful tool for ecommerce businesses to connect with customers. In fact, 43% of…
Klaviyo launches conversational AI agent
US-based customer relationship management software for online stores, Klaviyo, has launched an AI agent. Users of the…
A Primer on Focus Trapping
Focus trapping is a term that refers to managing focus within an element, such that focus always…
Getting Creative With Versal Letters
A while back, our man Geoff Graham treated us to a refresher on the CSS initial-letter property,…
Cimulate Modernizes Online Shopping With Smarter AI Assistants
Conversational AI is playing a larger role in e-commerce, but many digital shopping assistants still fall short,…
Ecommerce essentials, reimagined
A better checkout. One-click buying. More local payments. We’ve updated some of the core WooCommerce capabilities to…
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move
This is the fourth post in a series about the new CSS shape() function. So far, we’ve…
MNLY’s At-Home AI Powers Men’s Health
Next-gen health and wellness is an apt description of MNLY. Luke Hartelust launched the platform in 2021,…
USPS Warns of ‘Brushing’ Scam Behind Surprise E-Commerce Deliveries
The U.S. Postal Service is warning consumers about a growing scam called “brushing,” where unsolicited packages are…
Ecommerce to Real Estate: An Owner’s Story
Shakil Prasla once owned 12 ecommerce consumer brands generating $50 million in combined annual revenue with 50…
Color Everything in CSS
I have had the opportunity to edit over a lot of the new color entries coming to…
Understanding and troubleshooting failed orders
Running an online store means making sure every part of the shopping experience goes smoothly. So when…
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…
How to Keep Up With New CSS Features
How do you keep up with new CSS features? Let’s say for example that, hypothetically speaking, you…
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….