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If you are looking for website design services, you may want to consider a pay-as-you-go payment option to spread the cost of your project. Read more

When it comes to deciding whether to use an agency or a freelancer, it depends on your project and budget. Or does it? Read more

I loved Rounded Accounting's simplicity, but the inability to integrate with other services like Zapier, Google Sheets and Airtable is a killer.  Read more

Shopify has some great features to help with your ecommerce business. Here are 8 reasons why you should choose Shopify as your ecommerce partner. Read more

Here’s a simple snippet of Liquid code I use to display tagged articles on non-blog-related Shopify pages. Read more

A few months ago, I was tasked with building a new website for my wife’s mental health business. She’s not very tech-savvy, so I had to pick a CMS that would be easy for her to use without her having to bug me for changes and how-to’s. Being an ecommerce design consultant, I’m a relatively […] Read more

Here’s a quick trick to display content as accordions on mobile but as static content on desktop, using the details html tag. Read more

Once a year, there comes a time when I get bored of using my usual code editor and like to try something new. This time it was Panic’s Nova code editor. Read more

I recently discovered an unused URL on a client’s Shopify store: /collections/vendors, which can be a huge security issue. This URL path exists on every Shopify website, takes a query string parameter (?q=), and allows content, such as titles and page details, to be overwritten. Read more

A new Magecart-style exploit is doing its rounds and affecting multiple ecommerce platforms to steal credit card information and infect other sites. This attack is particularly difficult to identify because the code dropped onto the website is encoded and sometimes masked as a Google Tag or a Facebook Pixel code. Read more

I don’t usually write posts like this, but our experience with Sally Sparks-Cousins and Sparkle Class Academy is something to be wary of. Read more

This is a fantastic article by Jared White exploring all the numerous lies we’ve been told about how great JS frameworks are and how much time and work they save. Definitely worth a read. Read more

Building a new store with Shopify is easy, but getting it right is hard. Selling online requires web and design experience, and understanding how users shop online is vital to your strategy. My Shopify website audit is recommended if you have set up your store and require help making it easy to use with a great user experience. Read more

By default, Shopify’s order status page displays a map of the delivery destination and a standard “Order updates” box. Both of these aren’t essential for the customer and take up valuable space. Read more

In Chris Ferdinandi latest Daily Tips newsletter he talks about web performance, and React in particular. I’ve never been a fan of using bloated frameworks. Whenever I have used a React-built website, I’ve always come across a cache issue where I have to hard refresh a few times. This could be poor development, or a product of the framework, but either way it’s bad design. Read more

A great article by Ahrefs that explains exactly what SEO agencies do, which ones to steer clear of and how to pick the right one. Read more

If you’re a web developer, you may have already heard that some CSS selectors are faster than others. In this article by Microsoft, they explain how to optimise CSS better by improving CSS selector performance. A must-read if you are working on Google’s Core Web Vitals. Read more

WordPress is an extremely popular content management system amongst web designers and web development because of its easy setup, large community and thousands of plugins to extend functionality. But there’s an array of content management systems out there which may be better suited to your business requirements than WordPress, and they are definitely worth looking into. Read more

Design subscription services can have a massive role in all business areas, from creating your brand identity to designing social media graphics and websites. Read more

I recently found some of my old client work on a hard drive, so I put it all into an Archive page - for my records more than anything. Read more