Category: Website Playbook

50 Best Ecommerce Website Designs to Learn From

Just like any brick-and-mortar shop, your e-commerce site needs to be carefully curated to attract buyers. It’s not just a matter of sleek graphics and motion effects. Your design needs to employ UX principles that create a seamless shopping experience, so there’s no resistance towards reaching the final checkout. Besides reducing friction, the site should

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The Ultimate eCommerce Website Design Guide

US eCommerce sales continue to reach new heights in 2018. Worldwide, eCommerce will continue to post solid gains to the tune of $2.3 trillion. But what makes one eCommerce site triumph over another? Several factors determine the overall success of an eCommerce website including product quality, brand recognition, shipping costs, return policies, trustworthiness, and customer

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6 Reasons NOT To Buy a Custom WordPress Theme

It’s no secret to clients and colleague alike…I’m a huge fan of WordPress for a variety of reasons (ease of use, extensibility, frequency of security updates, etc.). One of its huge strengths is the availability of a large number of themes. Yet, I regularly get asked the question, “Why shouldn’t I buy a custom WordPress

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21 Award-Winning Website Designs & What They Did Right

The internet is full of some amazing and inspiring websites. These special snowflakes are the ones who find innovative ways to utilize every possible design and technological boundary to their advantage to create experiences that many organizations wish they had. Finding these diamonds in the rough can be an incredible challenge, especially if you are

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How To Grab Attention With Your Website Homepage Introduction

The window to grab a visitor’s attention on your website is small. If you don’t give them a reason to stay within the first few seconds, you could lose them. That’s because users decide whether to hit the “back button” decision within milliseconds. So your homepage is your chance to make want to stay on

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Why Use WordPress? A Deep Dive Into 10 Good Reasons

For average business owners, names like WordPress, Joomla, Shopify, Magento, Wix, and Weebly might sound like alien names. The process of building a website brings these names into your life, since they’re all platforms used to build websites. Each has its own benefits, while many are used more often for niche websites with specific purposes.

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Wix vs WordPress: Which One Should You Choose To Build A Website?

When it comes to building a website, we’re pretty strong proponents of WordPress (the fact that we specialize in WordPress hosting might give that away). But despite powering a whopping 29% of the world’s websites, WordPress isn’t the only way for you to make a website. In this post, we’ll dig into Wix, a popular

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50+ Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress

Have a question? No problem – we get a ton of questions about WordPress everyday. To help we thought we’d share and expand on some of the most common questions we’ve been asked about WordPress! We’ll cover tons of topics including: About WordPress Installing WordPress WordPress Basics WordPress Blogging WordPress Pages Customizing WordPress WordPress SEO Speeding

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WordPress Website Cost – The Real Truth Behind Building a Site

WordPress may have started as a simple blogging platform. But it has exploded into a full-blown CMS in recent years. Enterprises like The White House, jQuery, Dyn, NGINX, The New York Times, all call WordPress their online home. They’re just the cream of the crop, though. According to BuiltWith, another 19,922,280 live websites (and counting)

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