Improving the typography of your website can be an easy and inexpensive way to add value to your business. Here is a list of tools and resources for typography. There are guides to learn basic and advanced design, inspirational galleries with current and historic type examples, marketplaces to find free and premium fonts, and tools […]
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Once developers have written code for a site, they need to place it on the web servers. That process is called code deployment. “Code complete” is a common saying among software developers when they have finished a development project. But code complete doesn’t mean everything is done. Once developers have written code for a site,
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Businesses striving to provide shoppers with omnichannel experiences need to find new ways to manage, store, and present product information. Commerce is changing. For retailers, shoppers now have many ways to make a purchase. A consumer can go to a physical store, to a website, use a mobile app, shop on a marketplace like Amazon,
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WordPress is one of the most versatile content management systems, with over 50,000 plugins to customize it. Here is a list of plugins to sell digital downloads. There are simple tools to provide download buttons, and there are advanced platforms to manage memberships and control distribution. Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads. Easy Digital Downloads
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Your ecommerce business needs a new platform and a developer — but in what order? An ecommerce platform is the software your business will use to conduct online transactions and a developer is the person who will set up or customize that software. Odds are good that you weren’t really confused about your software and your
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For merchants and creators of digital goods, there are a variety of ecommerce platforms focused on selling downloads directly to consumers. With these tools, merchants can control download and pricing structure, branding, and where their products are sold. Here is a list of platforms to sell digital downloads. There are simple platforms to sell basic
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Web developers, like other professionals, must overcome habits and opinions that they’ve acquired over time. Web developers have standard processes and techniques to get their jobs done. They also have informal habits and opinions that influence their work — the kinds of things that no one is formally trained on but picks up from peers over
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Static site generators offer an alternative to content management systems like WordPress or similar and may produce faster-loading web pages that are more secure and less complex to maintain. Static site generators would not be the best choice for every site or application, but they are a valid option for content marketing and store blogs.
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With over 3 million active installs, WooCommerce is the most popular platform for ecommerce businesses. Its success is partly due to its flexibility, with hundreds of extensions available to customize each store. Here is a collection of plugins to extend the features of a WooCommerce store. There are plugins for invoicing, search, coupons and discounts, sliders,
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Making use of free elements and tools from the design community is an easy way to add value to your website. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from spring 2017. There are designer and developer apps, fonts, themes, photos, and more. All of these elements are free. Free Web Tools
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