Category Archives: Development
8 Things Your Bigcommerce Developer Wants You To Know
Web Design Tips From BigCommerce Partners Ever wished you could pick your developers’ brain? We talked to our development team about the things they wish BigCommerce merchants knew. Here’s what they came up with: the top eight guiding principles for Bigcommerce websites in 2018. 1. Make Decisions With Data How can you be sure that…
Switching To Stencil? Your Five Most Common Questions, Answered
Busting Myths About Blueprint vs. Stencil By now, you’ve probably heard about BigCommerce Stencil, the ecommerce platform’s newest and most advanced framework. You know that Stencil is faster and better-performing, and might be considering a move for your own business. Like many BigCommerce merchants, you might understand why moving to Stencil is important but not… Ten Reasons Why You Need A Website Maintenance Plan
How Building A Relationship With A Developer Improves Your Bottom Line Website maintenance is crucial to the health of your ecommerce business. Whether it’s fixing a bug or implementing a user-experience tweak, making small and regular updates is a crucial part of managing your ecommerce business. But if you don’t have an in-house developer, can… Customer Incentives For Ecommerce Stores
Marketing Tips That Turn Browsers Into Buyers What makes customers click the “buy now” button? Of course, the overall user experience of your website is important. Fast page speed, a clear navigation, and overall good design will go a long way towards boosting your conversion rate. But, to give customers that extra push, you need…
Case Study: Full Site Redesign and Stencil Move for PtouchDirect
BigCommerce Customizations To Sell Technical Products PtouchDirect have been in the ecommerce business since the 90s, way back in the days of Geocities. They sell a very specific, technical product: refills for label makers. In fact, their business is so targeted that the majority of their sales are for refills for a single model of… Optimizing The BigCommerce Checkout User Experience
Your Ecommerce Checkout Will Make Or Break Your Conversion Rate – Here’s Why Do your abandonment rates soar at checkout? You’re not alone. Research has shown that most ecommerce sites see between a 40-60 percent checkout abandonment rate, meaning that roughly half of all customers who make it to checkout leave before completing the first… Mobile Commerce Tips For BigCommerce
Mobile Ecommerce: Why It Matters With everything that goes into running an ecommerce website, optimizing your site for mobile may feel like an afterthought. But it shouldn’t. Mobile ecommerce (sometimes called m-commerce) is the future of online shopping. Here are some fast facts about why it’s so important. Your customers are already on mobile. 77… Case Study: Vape Shop Site Customizations For CueVapor.com
BigCommerce Customizations To Sell Regulated Products Online CueVapor.com is a BigCommerce store that sells vapes and vape accessories. They approached us with a number of challenges: not only do they sell regulated products (nicotine) that are subject to special laws and taxes, they also needed a site that would support their TV marketing efforts and… Case Study: BigCommerce Wholesale and Product Personalization Customizations for LogoTags
Designing An Ecommerce Site For a B2B + B2C Business LogoTags is a decades-old, family-owned business that sells both custom and non-custom products to some truly impressive customers, including the U.S. Army, NASA, and Disney – but to look at their outdated website, you wouldn’t have known it. Case Study: A BigCommerce Site Redesign For OliveOilLovers.com
Custom BigCommerce Development and Design For A Luxury Goods Feel OliveOilLovers.com is a BigCommerce site that sells high-quality extra virgin olive oil to discerning customers who love gourmet food. But their outdated site wasn’t properly showcasing their products and it wasn’t optimized to work with their specific business practices, such as offering a monthly subscription… Case Study: MadeWhimsy’s Budget-Friendly Stencil Move and Site Redesign
A BigCommerce Site Redesign and Upgrade For $5,000 When it comes to moving BigCommerce sites from Blueprint to Stencil, there isn’t one solution that works for every business. Moving a site with a pre-existing design is a large-scale project and could cost between $10,000 – $20,000. While that’s money well spent for a larger, well-established… All About BigCommerce AMP: Google’s Preferred Method for Mobile Optimization
Get A Faster Buying Experience for Your BigCommerce Customers Is your BigCommerce site mobile-friendly? Hopefully, you have a flexible, responsive design. But there’s one important part of responsive design (and its associated positive effect on SEO) that you’re probably missing out on if you’re still on Blueprint: Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). What is Google… Act Now To Get Last-Minute BigCommerce Upgrades Before The Holidays
The BigCommerce Design and Development You Need Got everything you need for the holidays? Let us help you check some items off your to-do list! It’s hard to believe but there are only a handful of days until the holiday season is in full swing. Before you go off the grid for some much-needed relaxation,… Supercharge Your Holiday Conversion Rate With These BigCommerce Upgrades
Is Your BigCommerce Site Ready For Your Busiest Season? You may be able to wait for Black Friday and Cyber Monday to do your own holiday shopping. But when it comes to your ecommerce business, prepping for the holiday rush starts now. Last year, holiday spending on ecommerce sites grew by 3.6 percent, with consumer… Fastest Theme Speeds On BigCommerce – Stencil VS Blueprint
Which produces faster BigCommerce themes…Stencil or Blueprint? We’re happy to announce that BigCommerce’s themes just got a lot speedier! This exciting news comes on the back of their release of a new framework for 2017 – Stencil. For years – since their inception actually – they have offered Blueprint as the sole framework to develop… Introducing CueVapor.com
Introducing another great new site the Bigcommerce platform, CueVapor.com. This is a highly customized website that sells a vaping device as well as disposable cartridges to go along with the device itself. As with most sites we develop on Bigcommerce, this site has many customiztaions. We strive to make the most of the robust Bigcommerce… Pay by Purchase Order on BigCommerce
Add Purchase Orders During Checkout With Purchase Orders, it becomes difficult to keep track of each file being sent via Email or Dropbox to your store, in regards to specific orders and customers. The customer must first make the order, send over the PO to be reviewed by your staff, then your staff member has… Microinteractions on eCommerce Sites
Every internet user encounters microinteractions– they’re the subtle nuance that helps the user confirm their interactions with a site. Utilizing these microinteractions on an eCommerce website can really enhance the overall experience and make a user feel more comfortable. They can provide feedback, improve continuity of the site, and make navigating from page to page…