Design & Development

Google Lighthouse: Monitor Site Performance, SEO, Accessibility

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Lighthouse is Google’s free, open source, and automated site monitoring tool. It can help ecommerce businesses track site load times, accessibility, and search engine optimization. Lighthouse is available in a few forms, including via current versions of the Google Chrome web browser. An ecommerce owner or manager simply opens Chrome’s developer tools by alt-clicking anywhere […]

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14 Video Editing Apps for Smartphones

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

No longer are content creators chained to their desktops. With full-featured video editing apps available for smartphones, create polished layers of content on-the-go for your website or for your favorite social networks. Here is a list of video editing apps for smartphones. There are simple editors as well as advanced multi-layer tools with a library

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WompMobile CEO on PWAs and AMPs

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Not long ago mobile optimization could provide a competitive advantage. But as the mobile internet has grown, responsive websites are no longer optional. They are essential to doing business online. WompMobile is a provider of mobile web solutions. I recently spoke with its founder and CEO, Madison Miner, about new mobile technologies for ecommerce businesses.

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Pointers on Backing Up Ecommerce Data

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Backups are an insurance policy for your ecommerce store that you hope never to use. Unfortunately, many backups aren’t adequate. The purpose of a backup is to recover the code and data to your store. It could be a partial loss, such as accidentally deleting a popular product. Or it could be the loss of

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16 Tools for Website Accessibility

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

“Web accessibility” refers to content designed so that disabled users can access it. Accessibility involves a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological. Accessibility overlaps with other disciplines, such as responsive web design, usability, and search engine optimization. As a result, accessible websites can have an increased audience

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11 Free WordPress Ecommerce Themes for 2018

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

The world’s most popular content management system, WordPress, has a lot to offer anyone who wants to open an online store. There’s a constant stream of new themes, many of which are free. Here is a list of new ecommerce themes for WordPress. Most of these themes can be used for a variety of business.

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Are PWAs the Future of Mobile Commerce?

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Compared to a typical, mobile-optimized web page, progressive web apps may give mobile shoppers a better browsing and buying experience while helping online sellers attract more customers, convert at a better rate, and, ultimately, earn additional sales and profit. It is for these reasons that progressive web apps — PWAs — may be the next

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3-part Plan to Minimize the Impact of Site Outages

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

“The site is down.” Few things worry developers as much as outages, especially on ecommerce sites where every minute represents lost revenue. But outages happen. To minimize their impact, plan for them. One of the trickier aspects is establishing priorities — what needs to be done first. Here’s my answer: Get back online. Communicate with

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6 Plugins to Automate a WooCommerce Store

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

There is so much to manage with an ecommerce store. You need to maintain adequate stock. You have customer issues, server and hosting issues, and software bugs. A store owner should focus on the big picture items, not managing every detail. In this post, I’ll address six WooCommerce plugins that can automate details of your

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Gzip Compression Could Make Your Site 90-percent Faster

Design & Development, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Not using gzip on your web server? You should be. Enabling gzip compression could improve initial page load times by as much as 90 percent. Faster web pages may lead to better search engine rankings, an increase in site traffic, and more sales. Gzip compression is a fairly common practice, so it may be the

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