Since the launch of my theme over at the app store, I’ve been getting some frequently asked questions so I thought I’d compile them along with some general help. If you have suggestions, comments and questions about the theme please feel free to post on the Elegant page and I will be glad to help.
Shopify has just opened a theme store where you can purchase affordable themes for your online Shop! They’ve done a great job as the site looks amazing.
An Independent test from Dave Beck over at shoppingcartstrategies.com was done to show which of the top e-commerce platforms had the best page load times. Tests were done with BigCommerce, CoreCommerce, Shopify and Volusion. Tests concluded that Shopify delivered the best results.
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Smashing mag put together quite the article of helpful information for those of you with online shops. Very helpful indeed!
Want to see all your clients on a map? Of course you do, best of all, it’s free!
Check out http://mapify.heroku.com/
There’s a small glitch in the theme where the top navigation bar elements are not sperated by a line.
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I’m being asked this question allot so figured I would make a tutorial on how to change the company name from text to an image so folks can upload their company logos to the header.
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I’ve been asked how to do this a countless number of times and finally it is here!
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Looks like the Shopify folk are pumping out many great features lately! Another marvelous feature and often requested is having the ability to let guests comment on Shopify blog posts! For the longest time, people needed to keep their blog separated because this was important to them and maintaining two sites is less then ideal.
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Adding hundreds of products will be much more convenient now that Shopify has introduced CSV import. Some news about it here.
Seems like my former manager, client, former manager have started up a blog over at http://www.startupottawa.com/. Needless to say it’s a blog about for the startup/tech scene in Ottawa, Canada. Some interesting posts here, I just may have to subscribe to their news feeds.
I’ve finalized the uppercasegallery Shopify store. Learn more about this project here.
I’ve updated the Shopify theme named rare1. This theme fixes a number of issues with IE6 and I’ve also added a little more styling to it.
You can download it here.
Note: For some reason, firefox on mac does not like this link, feel free to contact me if you have problems.
The Shopify marketplace has recently launched and I must say is quite kick ass. The functionality allows you to search the thousands of Shopify stores for products, even within a certain price range. The featured shop of the day is also quite cool. Very nice work guys.
The magnificent folks over at Jaded Pixel recently celebrated their 1 year anniversary of the Shopify launch. Working with the many Shopify shop owners on their stores is one of the most pleasant types of projects I get to do. I congratulate them and thank them kindly for all the business they send my way.
Two individuals from Ottawa’s up and coming software company leaders are featured on the Ottawa Citizen today. (more…)
I recently had the pleasure of building a Shopify store for Kelleigh @ http://www.divatoday.com/. She was a pleasure to work with and wish her store the best of luck!
