LESS is a JavaScript library that extends cascading stylesheets (CSS), allowing the style language to support variables, nested rules, operations, functions, and mixins.Alexis Sellier — who also goes by Cloudhead — developed LESS to help himself…
- 15 Oct 12, 2:20pm -

Mobile websites and mobile web applications have become an important part of nearly every ecommerce business. The most popular mobile user interface is likely a list. Fortunately, the jQuery Mobile Framework makes creating lists easy.Lists, as a use…
- 8 Oct 12, 9:28pm -

Whether displaying a list of articles or a product grid, category pages are an important part of nearly any web development project.I have taken a pause, if you will, in the Alien Authority development, project to look back and make sure that I have…
- 1 Oct 12, 7:56pm -

Cascading Style Sheets add style to the web. And what could be more stylish than buttons?Here is a list of tools and tutorials for creating CSS3 buttons. There are CSS3 button generators, tutorials for creating buttons entirely in CSS3, and sets of…
- 25 Sep 12, 12:44pm -

jQuery Mobile is a touch-and-swipe optimized web framework built to make it much faster to develop mobile web applications, including ecommerce applications.Once downloaded and installed, jQuery Mobile can treat content from a single HTML5 file as s…
- 24 Sep 12, 4:36pm -

The Yii PHP5 framework makes it possible to rapidly develop web applications under the relatively new three-cause BSD license that allows the framework to be used for either open source or proprietary projects.The Yii Framework was first released in…
- 20 Sep 12, 6:03pm -

Bear CSS is a handy little web application that automatically generates a blank, cascading style sheet template customized to match the HTML markup from a given web page.CSS is the Internet’s style and layout language. It is responsible for descri…
- 19 Sep 12, 3:01pm -

Adobe Illustrator is a dynamic tool for creating scalable vector artwork. And there is always a fresh supply of tutorials to master Illustrator’s tools and effects.Here is a list of recent tutorials for Illustrator CS6. Practice Illustrator’s ne…
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A simple webbot can submit GET-based web forms with just a few lines of code, meaning that some often repeated development or business tasks may be thus automated.Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the Internet’s most basic method of data co…
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The perfect site development project simply does not exist. Something always goes wrong or gets overlooked. So every once in a while it is a good idea to just look back at what one has been done and make sure that everything is working as ...
- 13 Sep 12, 1:13pm -

In an effort to enable rich, interactive ads for its Windows 8 platform, Microsoft on Tuesday announced Ad Pano, a brand-new advertising platform that runs across Windows 8, apps, Bing, Xbox and Skype. Debuted at the Cannes Lions International Festiv…
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After announcing last month that all of its Creative Suite apps would soon move to the cloud, Adobe on Tuesday made good on its promise and delivered the resulting subscription-based software. Now included under the umbrella name Creative Cloud, the…
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Buzz is building over Facebook's rumored plan to launch a mobile video app for Instagram at an event on Thursday. Video functionality in Instagram, the company Facebook purchased for $1 billion in April of last year, would be a direct challenge to Tw…
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Google has settled the class-action shareholder lawsuit that had been blocking a stock split it originally announced last year, the company said Monday, paving the way for it to move forward with the split as planned. The suit's settlement was an ele…
- 13 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 7:18pm -

The GAO earlier this month found two key deficiencies in a cloud contract that the CIA intended to award to AWS. The GAO decision was prompted by a protest against the contract filed by IBM. GAO is the designated federal agency for handling challenge…
- 20 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 12:00pm -

Another day, another mobile app release; except in this case, the app is aimed at the contact center supervisor -- not exactly a role that has been inundated with mobile functionality to this point. The application in question is Five9's latest cloud…
- 20 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 12:00pm -

A thin line between traditional IT monitoring and management services and monitoring real-time operations divides what Zenoss offers its customers and what other vendors provide. The IT monitoring space is becoming more crowded with proprietary and o…
- 20 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 12:00pm -

Video streaming service Netflix on Monday announced a new, multiyear partnership with DreamWorks Animation whereby it will bring many of the studio's beloved characters to the TV market via a branded collection of shows. Marking the largest deal for…
- 1 day ago, 17 Jun 13, 10:53pm -

Like Carrie, whose hand emerged from the grave to grab Sue by the ankle in Sue's nightmare, SCO has reemerged from its grave to revive its lawsuit against IBM, 10 years after the case was first filed. A court has granted SCO's motion for reconsiderat…
- 1 day ago, 17 Jun 13, 10:34pm -

In the wake of recent revelations that the government has been tapping their networks to monitor users, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent days have all published more information about those monitoring requests. Facebook, for example, reported…
- 1 day ago, 17 Jun 13, 9:03pm -

Editor's Note: The Web industry moves fast, and if you don't stop to take in what others are saying (and doing), you could be left behind. SMX Advanced 2013 offered some very informative and actionable paid advertising sessions. Joe Castro, Director…
- 13 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 7:00pm -

Working online means running a business that has the potential to go global right from the get-go, which means keeping an eye on emerging trends from around the world is really important, especially for advertisers that use affiliates to reach new cu…
- 14 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 6:15pm -

Running a small business is tougher today than it was five years ago, according to a new Constant Contact survey.The “Small Businesses: Then and Now Survey” found that 59 percent of small business owners believe it’s more difficult to run a b…
- 14 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 5:45pm -

Google’s Matt Cutts indicated in his most recent video that using stock images on web pages does not have an effect on SEO – either negative or positive. Glad we have that cleared up! While images may not directly influence rankings, it’s n…
- 16 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 3:45pm -

Hopefully you know that there’s far more to the CRM landscape than Salesforce – there are, in fact, hundreds of high quality lead and prospect (customer) management solutions on the market (check out our recent Top 50 found here) that are deservi…
- 17 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 3:10pm -

Following the migration to Adwords Enhanced Campaigns, Google advertisers are seeing increased bid prices in the range of 6% during the last three months according to new findings from Adobe – which recently examined 100 advertisers who spent a com…
- 18 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 2:14pm -

Adobe has released a significant update to its subscription-based Creative Cloud offering, making available hundreds of new features to its “CC” desktop applications such as cross-device collaboration and some exciting new publishing capabilities…
- 18 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 1:25pm -

Since 2009, when Best Western last redesigned its mobile app, the number of smartphone users has nearly doubled to more than 1 billion people worldwide. To improve the user experience, support the features available on many of today's mobile devic…
- 1 day ago, 17 Jun 13, 10:30pm -

The Yahoo Small Business network has launched Yahoo Localworks, a program to help local businesses increase visibility and generate leads through search resutls, directory listings and map applications. Yahoo will push business profiles (listings)…
- 1 day ago, 17 Jun 13, 9:30pm -

Despite its simplistic nature in a sophisticated digital world, Net Promoter Score (NPS) plays an important role in measuring and improving customer loyalty. At its basic, NPS assigns a value to a company based on the number a customer uses to indica…
- 2 days ago, 17 Jun 13, 6:45pm -

Where is e-commerce venture capital headed to now? Index Ventures, backers of the likes of Farfetch, Nasty Gal and Privalia, is speaking very highly of fashion commerce (“Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer On The Future Of Ecommerce And More”): "We we…
- 8 days ago, 11 Jun 13, 7:16am -

Net-a-Porter is one of the few e-commerce companies created by women, for women. As such it is a model example for female founders in e-commerce. The founder of Net-a-Porter, Nathalie Massenet, has recently immortalized her story-so-far on Instagram.…
- 36 days ago, 14 May 13, 6:33am -

Of all the topics that wander around in ecomPunk country, one that keeps coming back to me constantly is: reducing complexity, making things simple, getting rid of too many options. Personally, I’m a big fan of curated shopping experiences and...
- 70 days ago, 10 Apr 13, 6:07am -

This is meant to be read by all the eCommerce solution providers with enterprise focus. The ones that would love to have Zalando in their portfolio. It’s time to focus on your strengths software manufacturers! What do I want to...
- 72 days ago, 8 Apr 13, 7:33am -

After a long-expected shop launch, I managed to pull myself away from the project scene and fly over to Berlin to catch at least one day of the infamous Exceed conference, organised b Jochen Krisch and his crew. While my...
- 93 days ago, 18 Mar 13, 9:03am -

Condé Nast International (Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair) has been issuing press releases about it's e-commerce investments on an almost weekly basis. Yesterday saw a further investment of $20 million for farfetch (“A new way to shop for fashion”).…
- 5 Mar 13, 6:26am -

For those interested in alternative e-commerce strategies which specifically target repeat customers, Rakuten would be a good case study. The Japanese conglomerate has declared war on the online “vending machines” and wants to compete with a mode…
- 18 Feb 13, 7:18am -

During the past weeks, I felt oddly content with the commerce and tech world around me. Maybe it’s because I’m so bloody busy right now, that all the rant potential went into project related stuff. But, having to communicate while...
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- 31 Jan 13, 8:12am -

Etsy has continued to grow uninterrupted in 2012. The revenues generated by the merchant members in December exceeded $100 million for a second time and climbed 73% to a new record value of $117.8 million. This brings the total revenue...
- 19 Jan 13, 6:04am -

Checkout this infographic of the Google AdWords landscape from the folks at SEOmoz. Produced by SEOmoz. ©2013.
- 97 days ago, 14 Mar 13, 1:25pm -

Irina Tsumarava is a Marketing Coordinator at aheadWorks, a dynamic market leading provider of Magento extensions, Magento templates and themes, and custom development services with a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class solutions for eCommerce…
- 27 Feb 13, 9:23pm -

Mary Weinstein is an Account Manmager at CPC Strategy specializing in Comparison Shopping Engine, and PLA management with an emphasis on individualized merchant attention. Amazon and Google Shopping are major heavy hitters in the comparison shopping…
- 20 Feb 13, 10:57pm -

This post was written by Terry Costa, Vice President of Marketing, SLI Systems. As VP of marketing, Terry Costa is responsible for SLI Systems’ global marketing efforts as well as for driving growth of SLI’s search technology and services in th…
- 13 Dec 12, 7:18pm -

This post was written by Melody King of Treepodia. Melody has 13 years of experience in IT, focusing the last 7 in eCommerce. During this tenure, she consulted with more than 500 organizations to assist with increasing their site usability, merchandi…
- 10 Dec 12, 5:15pm -

It looks like Google Shopping is trying to beef up their product listings now that a lot of merchants are pulling their feeds because it is no longer free. Until Google transitioned to a commercial model, they had the most comprehensive shopping data…
- 5 Nov 12, 10:34pm -

When I logged into AdWords yesterday, I noticed that Google released a new feature that always felt as if it was missing: a date selection tool. The new tool now let’s you compare date ranges à la Google Analytics. This can be very useful in measu…
- 23 Oct 12, 4:17pm -

This post is written by Ben Bakhshi from adCore. adCore is an SEM automation suite that allows eCommerce shops to synchronize their datafeeds with Google AdWords and managing their bids automatically. Ben also writes for the blog eCommerce Marketing.…
- 23 Oct 12, 3:59pm -

Google AdWords just released a new feature which will help you control your budget. Until now, each campaign had it’s own budget. If you wanted to cap your spend across specific campaigns/promotions you had to merge everything into one campaign. Th…
- 20 Sep 12, 6:19pm -

Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it. — Go Daddy (@GoDaddy) September 10, 2012 Today is not a good day for GoDaddy. At least they are aware of it. Twitter is currently blowing u…
- 10 Sep 12, 6:16pm -

Many of us rely on Comparison Shopping Engines such as Nextag, Pricegrabber, and the likes to drive targeted traffic to our websites. When advertising with comparison shopping engines (CSEs), it’s important to pay attention to your conversion rates…
- 14 Sep 12, 5:03pm -

Running an e-Commerce site is difficult. Customer service can be a challenge. Combining the two proves even more taxing. Call center software is a great option for busy e-Comm sites that have more customer service calls than they can currently handle…
- 30 Aug 12, 3:48pm -

Any company that uses affiliate marketing to drive customers to its website is opening itself up a host of tricks (many of which that are easy to spot) that certain questionable affiliate marketers use. Many of these tricks drive traffic to your site…
- 28 Aug 12, 5:36pm -

This post is a follow-up to my last one about hosting your own applications versus outsourcing them to third parties. One of the problems I see pretty often on sites is that many key components are each served by a different company. You have one pro…
- 27 Aug 12, 5:04pm -

Over the past few months, I’ve watched as one particular e-commerce business make decisions about adding new features to their website. In an effort to increase revenue, they’ve spent time and money on conversion optimization testing, speed and p…
- 3 Aug 12, 6:13pm -

I bet you’re looking to stand out in the search engines. Right? Of course, we all are. Especially e-commerce sites, whose business often is so completely tied to search engine traffic. Although we usually focus on getting our pages ranked higher, i…
- 31 Jan 12, 9:52pm -

Well, readers, how many of you do I have left? I just got home from teaching a Zumba class, and patting myself on the back for accomplishing one of my New Year’s resolutions for last year, while at the same time knowing my plans to write the first…
- 2 Jan 12, 4:30pm -

One of the problems in the B2B space is that your products are sold based on customer need, not desire, beauty, or trends. It’s much easier to get customers talking about fashion or entertainment than about, well, ID cards. Retailer IDWholesaler.co…
- 1 Aug 11, 2:30pm -

Shoppers have come to expect the human touch almost as much online as they do when they visit a store in person at their local mall. Given this expectation, let's discuss how you can optimize customer service emails to create a stronger relationship…
- 21 Jul 11, 3:50pm -

Which is a Better measurement for Success in Today’s Online World? Mark Twain was famed for many things, but the one phrase of his I like the best always has been, “there are lies, damn lies and then statistics”. A good statistician can probabl…
- 13 Jul 11, 4:13pm -

In Google’s quest to deliver nothing but the most relevant and satisfying search results, it’s rolling out a several mobile ranking changes in the near future that will affect some non-responsive mobile sites. Not long ago, it was believed that G…
- 1 hour ago, 19 Jun 13, 6:27am -

When it comes to developing mobile apps, creating products for new devices, and unifying the customer experience cross-channel, less than one quarter of companies report they “always succeed,” while more than 60 percent “often or sometimes fail…
- 2 days ago, 17 Jun 13, 8:03am -

PRISM! Now that I have your attention using the buzzword of the week, today’s infographic looks at data brokers – the folks that track your spending behavior and sell it to marketers. Mmmhmm, that’s right. It’s a $300 Billion industry in the…
- 5 days ago, 14 Jun 13, 8:03am -

Responsive design is becoming a necessity for ecommerce sites and content publishers that want to make the Web experience available, consistent and usable across devices. But when content is your product, you may not survive on responsive alone. In t…
- 6 days ago, 12 Jun 13, 8:37pm -

You may have heard Android leads Apple in mobile operating system share, yet Apple still leads in app variety, downloads, usage and revenue (for now). As a marketer faced with pressure to go mobile, can you prioritize your mobile development between…
- 9 days ago, 10 Jun 13, 8:04am -

This week’s infographic comes from the GO-Gulf.com Blog, Ecommerce in the Middle East: Statistics and Trends. With 90 million Internet users and only 15% of businesses with an online presence, there’s room to grow. B2C online sales are expected t…
- 12 days ago, 7 Jun 13, 8:05am -

You may recall late last year we posted 10 mobile web design best practices taken from our friends at Mobify’s 50 tip stash. Today we’re doing it again – this time for tablets. Enjoy these 3 killer tips, and read them all in the ebook Tablet We…
- 14 days ago, 5 Jun 13, 8:03am -

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is hot, hot, hot, and gaining steam among ecommerce websites. But not to be overlooked is responsive email design (RED). As we learned from last week’s infographic, 43% of email is currently opened on mobile devices, hea…
- 16 days ago, 3 Jun 13, 8:03am -

While we all get hyped up about responsive design for websites, let’s not forget responsive email. EmailMonks has compiled some data on how and when mobile users check email on their devices (via SmartInsights). With only 25% of companies observed…
- 19 days ago, 31 May 13, 8:04am -

As is our custom, enjoy our picks for great ecommerce and technology related articles from the month of May. If you can believe it, there are more iPhones sold per year than babies born. Luke W illustrates this crazy fact and hopes you’ve got your…
- 21 days ago, 29 May 13, 8:03am -

Online growth accounts for 43% of total sales lift.
- 10 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 10:05pm -

Bare Necessities’ servers do most of the work, not the consumer’s web browser.
- 11 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 8:49pm -

Only 23% of U.S. and U.K. retailers optimize their messages for mobile.
- 13 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 7:03pm -

The travel company cuts costs, improves pricing accuracy and speeds page loads.
- 13 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 6:49pm -

Smartphone traffic increased 62% last year and will continue to grow rapidly, the retailer says.
- 13 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 6:46pm -

Working with CopiaMobile, it lets shoppers wave their phone at a screen for offers.
- 14 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 5:26pm -

The social network offers more tools for one type of ad and eliminates another.
- 16 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 4:18pm -

Amazon announces a new service that lets consumers on Facebook join forces to buy gift cards for friends with upcoming birthdays. On the recipient’s birthday, Amazon posts an image of the gift card on her Facebook timeline with links and instructi…
- 16 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 4:09pm -

Jeremy Liebowitz steps into the brand’s new global e-commerce job.
- 16 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 4:04pm -

A breakthrough technology can pinpoint where a consumer is inside a store.
- 1 day ago, 17 Jun 13, 10:04pm -