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Building an ecommerce store from the ground up can be complicated. Read our posts on the technology behind setting up your online store.

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DIY Responsive Design Part III: CSS and Image Best Practices

In the third and final installment of our DIY Responsive Design series, we’re going to dive into CSS and image best practices, and show you how to get a beautiful website that loads quickly across multiple devices and networks. Namespace Your CSS Rules Namespacing is the concept of creating

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DIY Responsive Design Part II: Designing with Bootstrap

In Part II of our DIY Responsive Design series, we’re going to show you how to use Bootstrap’s CSS grid to create responsive store templates. Bootstrap is a popular HTML, CSS and Javascript framework for developing responsive sites, and is an perfect place to start creating your pages

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DIY Responsive Design Part I: HTML Elements and Tags

With the growing popularity of mobile web browsing, it is becoming common practice to create web pages that can work effectively across multiple devices. In this 3-part guide, we’ll help DIY business owners understand some of the basic concepts and tools used when creating a responsive store template. No

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5 Simple CSS Rules

As I was reading the CSS questions posted on the forums, I thought about how interesting it would be to try to learn the language myself. By no stretch of the imagination am I a code guru, and I can’t provide an exhaustive list of best practices. Below are

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CSS Selectors 101

When creating a website there are two essential coding languages being used - HTML and CSS. Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, give your HTML layout, design, and display variations for various devices. By utilizing CSS selectors we can create a rule to target HTML elements that include properties to accomplish

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Web Development Apps: 5 Tools of the Trade

Are you planning to make changes to the code of your ecommerce website? One of our web developers recommends using these five tools to help make that process easier. Tackling the task of editing the code of your site can sound quite daunting. As web developers, we are constantly building

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