Articles and Web-Development and Ecommerce

Stephan Spencer’s Top 10 Tips for E-Commerce Sites

April 23rd, 2004

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in National Business Review

Our favorite tips for online catalogers: automatic spell correction on search queries, breadcrumb navigation, keyword themes, top 10 lists, open source, 1-click ordering, and more…

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Learning from the Dot-Bombs

July 1st, 2002

by Stephan Spencer

Originally published in Unlimited

Remember 20th century e-commerce? Perhaps you’d rather forget. The days when people threw money at any e-business idea that sounded vaguely plausible are long gone, but they shouldn’t be forgotten. Some of those famously ill-fated ideas had merit, but the execution let them down.

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