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9 eCommerce Design Tips I Love from GoLive's eCommerce Template
Check out my review of GoLive’s beautiful new Trove ecommerce template. I highlight seven specific design elements from Trove that any online shop should implement to drive more sales, along with a link to my full video walkthrough of the template.
6 Simple Tips for eCommerce Photography that Converts
The secret to more orders and fewer returns? Great photos! Learn the ins and outs of impactful product photography for your eCommerce site. Whether you choose to DIY or go professional, these tips will make sure your images really shine. Plus, discover my resources for great eCommerce photos to fit any budget!
Take the Extra Step: Customizing Your Store’s Email Notifications
Let your customers know that they matter to you beyond the sale by bringing your brand into their inbox. Customizing the default emails your site sends is a quick way to create a personalized experience and Squarespace offers lots of options to quickly and easily edit all the stock emails in one place.
The Importance of Accessibility in Web Design
Web accessibility is essential for creating an inclusive online experience. It helps websites reach a wider audience, improve search engine rankings, and reduce maintenance costs. Here’s how to do it.
How FAQs Can Boost SEO and Customer Satisfaction on Your Squarespace eCommerce Website
Are you looking to enhance your online business and provide a seamless customer experience? Discover the power of FAQ pages! Learn how FAQs can answer burning questions, boost trust, save time, smooth the shopping experience, showcase your expertise, and amp up your SEO awesomeness.
5 Simple Steps to Optimize Your eCommerce Site for Mobile Sales
With mobile purchases making up about half of all eCommerce sales, it's important to optimize your website for mobile sales. It’s not enough to just put your products or services online for people to discover. You’ve got to make sure that your site is designed for selling on devices big and small.
How to Design Your Own Squarespace Template
Your search for the perfect template for your new eCommerce website ends here. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can design your own custom template in just a few easy steps. Includes a walk-through video showing you exactly what to do!
My Favorite Squarespace eCommerce Templates for 2023
Check out 6 of my favorite new templates + exactly what I would do to each of them to make them eCommerce ready.
SEO Best Practices for Product Pages
How do you help the right people discover your products? Follow these tips and best practices for your product pages to appeal to customers and search engines alike.
12 Ways to Build a More Empathetic Brand
Discover how taking an empathetic approach to eCommerce may be the competitive advantage you’ve been missing. Use my 12 tips to connect with stressed out and distracted customers on a more human level before, during and after each purchase.
How to Use Unsplash to Curate Your Website Images
Finding great looking stock images sometimes feels like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Learn how to find the hidden gems and put together a cohesive selection of images for your eCommerce website - all for free!
8 Ways to Make Your Small Business Look Big Online
Just because you're small doesn't mean you have to look it! Here are 8 ways your small business can turn up, compete with the big guys, and use your size as a competitive advantage!
Web Design Trend: The Mega Footer
First impressions are everything and a mega footer allows you to have all the links you want on your site without compromising on a clean, minimal header. Find out why this design feature works and what to include in the footer of your eCommerce website.
8 Tips for Designing an Impressive eCommerce Home Page
Your home page is one of the most important pages on your eCommerce website. Discover some simple elements to include to make sure that you capture the attention of visitors right away and keep them browsing around your site to discover new products!
How to Pick The Right Squarespace Template for Your eCommerce Site
As a jumping-off point, templates can help you get to launch day faster and cheaper but how do you know what to look for in a template design? How can you make sure you pick the right one for your eCommerce site and avoid some common template traps?
How to Create a FAQ Page on Squarespace
In this quick post, get four tips for making your FAQ page customer-friendly and informative plus two options for how to quickly create a FAQ page on your Squarespace site.
How To Set Up a Privacy Policy & Terms of Service On Your Website
There are options available for setting up the legal things required on your website (like a privacy policy and terms of service) at a range of price points. Here are my recommendations from free to high cost so that you can decide which is best for you.
Website Tips From an eCommerce Pro
Part actionable list, part pep talk - this post has 7 tips on eCommerce, web design and websites in general from me, an eCommerce pro! These are the things that I think would make every website more engaging, more successful and just more fun to use!
15 Things to Update on Your eCommerce Website
This post features 15 actionable tips and tools to make sure you’re getting the most out of your eCommerce website. Updated from my previous series with tools & strategies to help small businesses cope with COVID, these are strategies you can use now and in the future.
UX Lessons From a Former Sign Designer
Trying to figure out how to communicate with your website visitors in the simplest way possible, minimizing confusion and boosting sales along the way? Take some lessons from real world wayfinding sign design and apply them to your website!