I’ve recently been working with setting up Shopify online stores. There are a few popular ecommerce services out there that are very powerful, inexpensive and really good but I just love the architecture and coding practices that Shopify use. For themes, Shopify use Liquid (resulting in files having the .liquid file extension) which is a Ruby programming language […]
Archives for December 2014
Get much better Blogger feeds
Blogger is a very good service for blogging. WordPress is way more adaptable (and you can use your own domain name with WordPress) however if all you need is a simple to use and free blog then Blogger is the way to go (bet you didn’t think you’d hear that from someone who provides WordPress […]
Add focus to a Mailchimp subscribe form field
I’ve written various posts in the past regarding how to have a form field in focus automatically when a website page loads. What we mean by in focus is that the cursor will be active in a predefined field when a webpage is loaded. This means that all the viewer need do is start typing […]
Add focus to a Gravity Forms field
Adding focus to a form field means that when the page with the form loads, the field with focus will have the cursor flashing in the field ready for text input. Various research has shown that this increases conversion rates. HTML5 includes the autofocus attribute that makes it simple to add focus to a field […]
Survey: Email marketing significantly beats Facebook
Social Media is all the rage. Businesses of all sizes seems to spend inordinate amounts of time on their social media. Latest research suggests that email marketing still is far more effective at both converting readers and gaining followers (or subscribers). … adults who want to stay in touch with your brand are almost twice […]