Monitoring Your Magento Store Your Magento Store requires consistent and active monitoring in order to analyze it’s overall health. Magento’s powerful dashboard, paired with Google Analytics, offers a wealth of information that can be used to assess the overall effectiveness of your Magento Store. Monitoring your Key Performance Indicators will alert you to any potential […]

Visual communication is one of the main aspects of any website. It is important for the user to be able to properly navigate through each web page without frustration. Getting, and keeping, the attention of the user can be difficult, but it’s not hard to achieve. This can be accomplished by the use of clear […]

Most companies who own a Magento eCommerce store want their customers to be able to access the website through their mobile devices. There are two ways to go about this: First, for Magento stores that are not responsive,  an extension  can be purchased that makes the website mobile friendly by adding the mobile app extension […]

After four years, the Shero Designs logo gets a fresh new look. Besides designing and developing websites for mid to big size companies, our team is comprised of three talented graphic designers Jillian (Me), Caitlin, and Beth. Although the main part of what we do is web design and front-end development, all three of us […]

The checkout page on your Magento eCommerce site is extremely important to your business and especially for your customers. Many users do not know the difference between the default Magento checkout and the Magento extension, OneStepCheckout. In this blog post I will explain the pros and cons and the effects it has on checkout conversions. […]

A new way to improve customer experience and usability through your Magento eCommerce website is to have a visually appealing and easy to navigate mega drop-down menu. Websites using a mega drop-down menu are able to have extra content without causing the website to appear cluttered and hard to navigate. A mega drop-down menu lets […]

So you probably thought your home page and product pages are the most important part of your ecommerce store. I’m sure you didn’t think of how your ‘About Us’ page could boost sales and credibility for your company. Trust plays a huge role in the ecommerce world. Here are some tips and tricks on how […]

Statistics have shown that having a responsive mobile eCommerce website increases sales and website traffic. Web traffic in 2013 through a mobile phone has increased by 17%, where as in 2012, the web traffic was only 11%. Therefore, the usage of smartphones to access the web for online shopping will increase each year. It is […]

Web and Graphic Designers are highly skilled and creative individuals who can master a brand and produce visually interesting designs that intrigue, captivate, and inform. While they both have backgrounds in concept, design, and digital media, each is responsible for a different step in production. The following infographic illustrates the core differences in the tools, […]