Best Practices
Tips and advice for running a successful ecommerce website.
Best PracticesEverything You Need to Know about Cross Border Fees
This is a guest post written by David Goodale, CEO at Merchant-Accounts.ca. We at Foxy have worked with David on numerous projects over the years, an...
Best Practices・Product UpdatesFaster Pageloads: Effectively using HTTP Caching, Cache Busting, and a CDN
It seems HTTP caching is one of those things few devs ever really need to think about. We expect webservers to cache assets intelligently, and largel...
Best Practices・How ToThe Danger of Bootstrapping: Customers !== Business
Over the past few months I’ve become particularly aware of the boilerplate “getting to know you” questions that get asked at tech conferences and mee...
Best Practices・CultureTrying to See Better: Visual Accessibility and FoxyCart
FoxyCart 2.0 represents our attempt to bring everything that you love about our platform into the modern era of web development. This has involved si...
Best PracticesThe Right Tools for the Job (part 2)
This post is a continuation of The Right Tools for the Job (part 1). Over the years I have worked with many text editors. Some good and some bad. I s...
Best PracticesThe Right Tools for the Job (part 1)
Lets face it. Running a business is hard. But imagine how much harder daily operations would be without modern tools and technology, specifically sof...
Best Practices・CultureVersion Control at FoxyCart
Here at FoxyCart our business is code. And, as anyone who’s written code in the last 10 years knows, version control systems are the best place to ke...
Best PracticesA Service Architecture Approach to Ecommerce
When it comes to ecommerce, one size does not fit all. Since 2007, we’ve been building a flexible ecommerce solution for develpers and have come acro...
Best PracticesNew Years Resolutions
New Years Resolutions – those lists that people create (possibly after one too many drinks on NYE) in an effort to improve something about themselves...