Why Blocking AI Chatbots Can Leave SMBs More Exposed
For a small business with little or no IT support, blocking AI chatbots on company computers can…
CSS Optimization: Is Using Declarations Just Once (UDJO) Still Effective Today?
CSS optimization is a deceptive topic. On the one hand, it feels like something simple that we…
HTML vs. XML Sitemaps for Ecommerce
From the web’s earliest days, developers included a summary of links to a site’s key sections, such…
What’s !important #19: CSS Refraction Effects, Scroll State Queries, @custom-media, and More
We’re back! Don’t worry, this isn’t a trick (despite what our name suggests!). However, due to the…
Subscription churn: Turn retention insights into recurring revenue growth
If your ecommerce operation relies on subscription revenue, understanding churn gives you a powerful way to strengthen…
Shopify, Vercel Arm Stores for AI Agents
Shopify and Vercel are collaborating to build ecommerce shops for humans and AI alike. Sharing a stage…
AI Platforms Attract a Growing Ecosystem
Artificial intelligence models are becoming platforms, attracting an ecosystem of applications, connectors, marketplaces, and payment systems that…
New Ecommerce Tools: October 14, 2026
Our curated rundown this week of new services for merchants includes agentic checkouts, AI-powered marketing, same-day deliveries,…
What’s !important #18: , Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month,…
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
You want to build a custom WordPress block. But you don’t want to learn React, manage a…
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
You closed a dialog and the console went that particular shade of angry mustard. You highlighted the…
2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys
Two things: The State of CSS is obviously one I’m always stoked to see. But this year’s…
What’s new in WooCommerce 11.0: Faster product pages, analytics updates, and more
WooCommerce 11.0 has launched with product page and Order screen speed updates, changes to how certain metrics…
Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New
For a long time now, web developers have had to use border and pseudo-element hacks to style…
BigCommerce alternatives: Why it might be time to switch
On June 1, BigCommerce renamed every plan, lowered the GMV thresholds, and added a fee of up…
WooCommerce is the foundation of our entire ecosystem
We just kicked off a large effort, and I want to post about it here because you’re…
Nail Profit before Site Extras, Owner Says
Paolo Vidali has a suggestion for merchants looking to add advanced features to their ecommerce sites: Be…
translateZ()
The CSS translateZ() function adds depth to an element, drawing it closer or farther in space. In other words,…
WooCommerce 10.9: Order email visibility, checkout headroom, and a cleaner admin
WooCommerce 10.9 has launched with some key updates working in the background, as well as with one…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 17, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
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,…
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…