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The 10 Best Free One-Page Themes for WordPress in 2021
When you’re just getting started with your business, you might not have a lot of information for a full-featured, multi-page business website. If that’s the case, a one-page WordPress theme is exactly what you need. A one-page website will make it easy to share important information about your busin..
30 Fantastic Branding Identity Mockup Templates for Photoshop
Branding isn’t just what you do. It’s also how you present yourself. So when you’re creating your next branding strategy for your own products or clients, it’s important to take visuals into account.
Yes, you could create a few versions of the branding materials and call it a day, letting your clie..
CSS is Going Gosh-Darned Hog Wild, I Tell Ya What
As someone just sittin’ back watching CSS evolve, it feels like we’re at one of the hottest moments of innovation in CSS history. It was really something when we got flexbox across all browsers, and not terribly long after, grid. They changed the game from CSS feeling like an awkward collection of t..
11 Must-Follow Web Design Blogs
Need inspiration for an upcoming web design project? Want to learn how to add live chat functionality to your site, or which trends you should be aware of as you pursue new projects? Leading web design blogs could be the solution to your problems.
Just as marketers follow posts on websites like Se..
Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS
Ahmad Shadeed blogs the sentiment that we might not need to lean on position: absolute as much as we might have in the past. For one thing: stacking elements. For example, if you have a stack of elements that should all go on top of each other…
.stack {
display: grid;
}
.stack > * {
grid-area: 1 ..
Baymard Update: 13 New Case Studies and 3 New 2021 Benchmarks (Checkout, Product Page,...
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Key Takeaways
13 new 2021 UX case studies added to Health, Beauty, & Vitamins, Sports Equipment, and Pets, Toys, & Music
New 2021 “Cart & Checkout” benchmark added with 8,000+ Checkout examples
New 2021 “Product Details Page” benchmark added with 5,000+ PDP examples
New 2021 “On-Site Search” benchmark added with 2,500+ Search UI examples
1) Benchmark Database Expansion
We’re expanding our UX benchmark database significantly with in-depth UX case studies of 13 new sites that we’ve manually benchmarked across 500+ guidelines.
This provides you with 4,500+ new best practice examples and 6,500+ performance scores within the industries Health, Beauty, & Vitamins, Sports Equipment, Pets, Toys, & Music:
5 new Health, Beauty, & Vitamins case studies for Vitamin World, Vitamin Shoppe, Ulta, Shop Apotheke,..
In Web Design, Easier Doesn’t Always Mean Better
There are a massive number of products and tools aimed at the web design industry. And it seems like something new arrives every day.
They may vary widely in scope, but most have one thing in common: the promise of making our job easier. Whether they’re writing superb code, promising can’t-fail fun..
DTC UX: On-Site Search and Improving ROI for Product Finding
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Key Takeaways
While on-site search is a vital tool for product-finding on larger retail sites, users on small-catalog, direct-to-consumer sites rarely looked for this tool.
100% of DTC users’ initial product-finding behavior was to utilize the site’s main navigation and browse the product catalog manually, turning to search only if this strategy failed.
Sites with a very small number of products should prioritize investment in navigation and product information above an on-site search tool.
Through years of UX research on traditional retail sites (including mass merchants like Amazon or Target, we’ve observed how on-site search is an incredibly popular and valuable resource for finding relevant products.
Unsurprisingly, when sites sell hundreds or thousands of different products, search often become..
Jamstack Developers’ Favorite Frameworks of 2021
Which new framework should I learn this year? Is it time to ditch my CMS? What tools should I pick up if I want to scale my site to an audience of millions? The 2021 Jamstack Community Survey is here with answers to those questions and more.
For the past two years, Netlify has conducted the Jamsta..
WooCommerce + Google Analytics
Google Analytics is powerful analytics software. A common way to use it is to just slap the JavaScript snippet on every page template you have and let it collect basic data about unique visitors and pageviews and such. That’s useful, but it’s also the bare minimum. Say there is an important button o..