The Designer’s Shopify blog

It's common knowledge amongst web designers that you should keep image file sizes small to reduce website load times. This keeps customers from leaving the website, and fast loading speeds has SEO benefits as well.  So...

Shopify Product Updates  The theme of this season’s Editions is “Unified” and it’s all about making it easier for brands to expand and manage sales between regions, retail locations and B2B using Markets. Since the theme...

Shopify powers 10% of all ecommerce in the US (Source), a number that’s increasing annually. While 10% might not sound like a lot, 10% is an enormous quantity of websites, especially when considering the number...

Lately we’ve been asked a lot, “Should my design studio’s website be on Shopify?” After all, if you’re a Shopify designer, shouldn’t your own website be on Shopify as well? Not necessarily. Let’s break down...

Shopify Product Updates 1. Flex Sections: New Section Blocks  In the last Editions, Shopify announced "Flex Sections" which will allow a drag, drop and resize experience. We've finally heard an update on this, marking the first step towards Flex...

An important of making sales is making it easy for customers to find what they’re looking for. Here’s where filtering comes in. It’s helpful for all catalog numbers to provide additional information to customers, but...

The below is not legal advice and we do recommend seeking the advice of an expert who specializes in web accessibility. What is web accessibility? Website accessibility refers to how easily websites can be used...

Working with Low-Budget Web Design Shopify Clients When you go through a discovery call and even maybe the proposal phase and your lead tells you, “it’s out of my budget”, it can feel disheartening. You’re...

Learning Shopify Through Podcasts I’m a podcast junkie, and in my first year of working on Shopify, I listened to podcasts about it constantly, which taught me a lot about how to help store owners...

If you’re into reading Shopify Partner updates, you’ll often hear about Headless websites, or the Hydrogen builder. Shopify often boasts about how some of the biggest brands are using Shopify for their headless websites, and...

Has a client ever asked you for a totally custom Shopify website, insisting that they don’t want to use a template? Here’s a message we got from one of our followers: “I got myself into...

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...