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Here we share our thoughts about eCommerceB2storefront is a platform that consists of multiple components. To build those components we use various solutions, tools and frameworks that are outlined here.
small nice online tools can make a miracles sometimes and save a ton of time
How to setup a temporary development team to not get in troubles.
hosting a jamstack site can be tricky here we explore use cases from our own experience and various conditions that have an impact on which way is optimal for specific implementation
Metafields can be edited with 3rd party CMS
Our toolbox overview, Mac OS apps, Chrome Extensions, online tools we use in our day to day work
There is a lot of situations where we need either to debug smth, or write JS right away inside Chrome Terminal, all nuggets from that type of situations are collected here
Implementation of headless Product Details Pages for BigCommerce
Sometimes you need to define specific processes to be handled very specific way, because of many reasons and many situations experienced in the past, here we collect our approach to a different working situations and how they should be handled.
We believe that mastering the toolbox available for delivering results allow everyone to focus on more creative work and less fighting with the tools in the way. There is a lot of events, good talks and great blogposts around there and some of them we were able to read, we share them here.
Internal manual on our approach to Jira and task resolutions as well as some instructions how to clean up the situation quickly in bulk
Tasks, Tickets, Pings, Pokes - it's all end up either in Trello or in Jira, here you will find a set of useful information how we use this toolbox.
There is no free ads, free means you paid for it with your time, so activity on social media is time consuming topic but inevitable in this post we collecting all necessary meaningful hints and lifehacks that are making sense in the field of operations specifically on marketing side.
We use tools but also we use them as a part of the process and sometimes ability to use the tool is rely on DevOps part, below some nuggets in no particular order.
Headache on each project start is inevitable, paperwork should be in place, bunch of really cool lawyer companies came up with a meaningful set of templates that can be used for streamlining of the projects kickoff. Don't waste an energy for reading lawyer-english.
listical Agreements project management standard operating procedures
We use MacOS as a default operational system in our core team and encourage everyone to use that great system too. Here are our findings and nice things we like to share.
This is as close as it can gets put you into the world of "you don't need a developer" for creation of landing pages. Bunch of links here and things to explore!
It is the best from anywhere else and so cool we don't even updating it since 2022 so you can imagine the level of how Ultimate it is.
Migrations between platforms are inevitable, either you grow or you shrink or platform you used stopped being fancy and developers pool dried out, or they just made too much of not useful "improvements" and you had enough. Here we outline the base for migrations.
Another post about BFCM enjoy it
This post should be written because everyone else have that type of posts, if in the lottery of googling you arrived here, well read it :P
DTC was always entertain their customers with best design, best user experience and B2B was not so focused on those aspects, until now... basically why B2B online store should offer less in the field of UX? Let's digg into that topic!
Magento is cool, Shopify is cool, any platform is nice when it's a fit, so in case someone for example your agency told you that you need to migrate to Shopify because it's better for marketing you can get some more information on that topic in this post.
Landing pages are important because it's a next step in the conversion funnel from ads, they should be relevant and they should play with an ad an integral story line. That's why there is never enough landing pages and here we talk about them in Shopify environment.
This is important part of our team members and vendors onboarding process, we try to explain here how we work, why we work that way and how to make it as unobtrusive and efficiently seamless as possible.
Themes are cool, Shopify promise of you don't need a developer is also cool, but it all comes with it's set of limitations. We will go through those here.
Headless, PWA, Jamstack a lot of jargons, now Composable came to consolidate or replace them, but in essence it's all about benefits and approach. Let's talk in details here.
Design systems sound scary and unnecessary for smaller operations, we don't need it! Well the problem is that you already have one by default just because you use a theme and keep adding new sections to it it's just undefined and slowly become more and more messy.
Often times we are limited by output of the embedded plugin or CMS or other issues on how we can reach to a specific element and apply styles to it, throughout experience on numerous projects we got a set of useful snippets that help us in specific practical cases.
For now those nuggets are collected here in no particular order, we would re-organize and put sections here as we go.
It's a collection of different type Liquid shortcuts we discovered while solving specific practical issues on the stores of our Clients who use this platform.
Sometimes you need a workaround that outputs data different way, or ignore some pre-defined settings which were designed to serve purpose of 90% standard stores but are actually hit your ability to implement that specific custom feature. Below some gems we found while facing this type of challenges.
Rebuilds, build minutes and how things works in case of hosting of your BigCommerce Headless Storefront or Shopify Headless Storefront