The Designer’s Shopify blog

You always want external links (any links that lead outside of the store's URL) to open into a new tab so that customers don’t completely leave the website and never come back. Most stores have...

Why translate your store language? To put it simply, if people can’t read your website, they’re not likely to buy. Think back to a time that you were online shopping and landed on a website...

When online shopping, one of the first things people look for is the product price. It says $270 but is that in US dollars, Canadian dollars, Singapore dollars, Australian dollars or Mexican pesos? This is...

Shopify Editions Winter ‘23 revealed over 200 product updates on Shopify, one of which being Metaobjects. A year prior, Shopify released Metafields which was one of the most valuable updates to store merchants. What are...

What are Metafields? Metafields would be better named “Custom fields” because that’s exactly what they are. They allow us to store and display extra information about products, collections, pages, blog posts and more. While Shopify...

Why you need a custom CSS file While you could just add all your custom CSS to the end of the theme’s main CSS file, I don't recommend it. Here's why you should create a...

Color swatches are a great way to visually present color or pattern options to customers. Swatches can be as simple as a single color to patterns and all the way mini versions of the entire...

I admit… I think tracking is fun. Who doesn’t love the excitement of launching a website and seeing how many visitors there were, where they came from, and what they did on the site? Shopify...

There are several that allow you to add an Instagram feed to a store in the Shopify theme store but here are my go-to favorites that I use on all my stores. 

Have you come to this article thinking that an anchor link should be a super easy thing to do, but finding it impossible or clunky on Shopify? I’ve been there and came up with an...

On Shopify, it has traditionally been easy to make a great looking homepage with the theme's section building blocks, but difficult to edit other pages to look equally exciting. That’s why page builders like PageFly...

When building client websites, I always look to start with a paid premium theme that closely resembles the design I'm going for. Sometimes there isn't really anything that fits well -- some themes have some...