Alternatives to the !important Keyword
Every now and then, I stumble onto an old project of mine, or worse, someone else’s, and…
Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape()
Creating rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles is the basic of CSS. Creating more complex CSS shapes such…
Otto increased its GMV by 6%
In the past fiscal year, German ecommerce giant Otto was able to increase its gross merchandise value…
Ecommerce in Sweden grew 10% in 2025
Last year, online sales in Sweden increased 10 percent compared to the year before. In total, ecommerce…
Search Console’s Average Position, Explained
Google Search Console is the most reliable way to evaluate a site’s organic search visibility. Unfortunately, the…
Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about and experimentation with scroll-driven animations….
Amazon to invest over 5 billion euros in Poland
Between this year and 2028, Amazon is planning to invest 5 billion euros in Poland. This is…
Shein: ‘More than six hundred sales partners in Germany’
Shein says it has thousands of sales partners across Europe, including more than six hundred in Germany….
4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts
When I talk about layouts, I’m referring to how you place items on a page. The CSS…
Search Console Adds Brand Filters
Search Console now includes filters to show only branded queries or exclude them. Google uses AI to…
Abusing Customizable Selects
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build…
The Value of z-index
The z-index property is one of the most important tools any UI developer has at their disposal,…
Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element
sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions. There are lots of recent examples like this. Still, there is one little…
New Ecommerce Tools: February 25, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes rollouts for third-party fulfillment, AI assistants, agentic…
Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index()
Confession time: I’ve read about the performance benefits of scroll-timeline(), but when I see an impressive JavaScript…
Interop 2026
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re…
New customs rules for imported parcels
The Council of the European Union has approved new customs rules for imported parcels valued at up…
Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS
Speaking of charts… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? If you…
Marketing to Humans and Machines
Agentic shopping presents ecommerce marketers with a familiar problem in a new form. The promise is simple…
‘Instagram is the leading social commerce platform in Germany’
Three in ten German consumers shop via social media. Instagram is used the most: 15 percent of…
Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?)
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Yet another CSS pseudo-class… But I think this suggestion is rather cool….
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…
Unified Platforms and Agentic AI Will Define E-Commerce in 2026
Digital vendors and e-commerce businesses enter 2026 facing a radically changed retail landscape, shaped by rising customer…
What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More
2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue…