According to the annual e-Commerce study by IAB Spain in 2018, 71% of Spaniards are online shoppers (19.4 million people) and the average spend is 77€ with a frequency of 3 times a month. The e-Commerce with the most sales in Spain are found in the categories of entertainment, travel, technology and fashion.  User experience is key to achieving a good conversion rate and customer retention.  In this post I will explain some of the most important elements for UX in e-commerce: The first impression First impressions are critical for online stores, because it’s so darn easy for customers to click on the “x” andRead More →

WordPress is a very flexible content management system for creating web pages. One of the main reasons is the wide variety of plugins available to add more features to your site. There are thousands of free plugins in the official WordPress directory, covering almost all features for any type of website. It is also possible to get premium WordPress plugins from third-party marketplaces or even create a plugin yourself. Below I show you 5 of the best plugins of 2022 according to their downloads and ratings, for a wide variety of uses. 1.WooCommerce – Best WordPress Ecommerce Plugin It provides essential eCommerce functionality such asRead More →

The main goal of jQuery is to make it easy to use JavaScript (JS) on your website. This is the language of choice for developers when it comes to designing web applications. According to SlashData from 2020, this is the most popular programming code among developers. jQuery is a library developed in 2006 by John Resig that allows us to add an AJAX interaction layer between the web and the applications we develop by controlling events, creating animations and different effects to enrich the user experience. This library that achieves an environment where tasks and processes in JavaScript programming are simplified, making it easy toRead More →

What happens when customization gets out of hand and you reach a point where your website has turned out horrible or you just don’t know where you have disabled that functionality that you can’t find? Here I show you the solution. Reset customizer, thanks to this plugin, you can have a reset button. You just have to install and activate it, like any other free plugin. Once installed, you just have to go to the customizer and there you find a new button, “Reset”. If you press it, you will get a warning that the customizer settings will be reset to their default values forRead More →

Being a junior, mid-level, or senior developer isn’t just about years of programming experience you have. A junior developer can even be older than a senior developer. It all comes down to skill. But more than just coding skills, it is what differentiates the senior developer from the junior and mid-level developer. So what exactly are the differences? 1. Years of experiences A junior level programmer is a professional who has less than two years of experience. If he is above this time, then he can be considered mid-tier. For his part, from the age of 10 he can be called a senior programmer. ItRead More →

Before we get into the history of HTML, it’s important to note what HTML is. What is html?The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.And why hypertext? Because it is not just about a sequential text, but about all the possible links that we can integrate in it, from other designed pages to complex tables, videos or games, among others. The origins of HTML In the early 1990s, physicist Tim Berners Lee, a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), published anRead More →

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and is a protocol – or a prescribed order and syntax for presenting information -, used to transfer data over a network. Most information sent over the Internet, including website content and API calls, uses the HTTP protocol. How does HTTP works? The operation of the protocol, as we have already mentioned, is executed between a client and a server located somewhere in the world. Step by step, HTTP works like this: It all starts when we enter the browser and look for a web page, for example xupxup.net The browser understands that we are making an HTTP request.Read More →

The use of dynamic maps and geolocation in interactive experiences is continually improving. Right now there are many JavaScript Libraries available to help us to create dynamic maps and extend the functionality of the Google Maps APIs (and other data-set providers) with various customization options, check out the selection in Polymaps. You also have MapBox GL JS, which allows you to totally change the graphic style of your map, or you could integrate three.js into your maps using libraries such as Threebox. Take a look at 5 Inspirational Examples of Interactive Maps and Street View experiences in Web Design. 1.iMapa by CHYRKOV studio 2. ListeningRead More →

Stephen P. Anderson through his 2010 seminar, “Seductive Interaction Design,” where he looks at ways we can employ psychology to design interactions that are more fun, engaging, and effective. An example he gives of seductive interaction design in a set of stairs that have been painted to look like piano keys with sensors to play notes when stepped on. The design put use of the stairs up 66 percent in comparison of the stairs right next to them. There are many paths to creating the type of innovative designs Anderson describes, but often, the need for familiarity and intuitiveness in interaction design takes precedence overRead More →

The metaverse is a concept from science fiction that describes a single fully virtual 3d world that users can connect to via the internet and interact with each other and the virtual world around them. The use of virtual reality and the metaverse changes completely how we will physically interact with these digital worlds. Anytime you watch someone with new technology the second the interaction becomes difficult to the user, feels like they are not in control and they will very quickly stop using it. Especially when the world looks and sounds so real that you are fully immersed the second you can’t do something youRead More →