The Designer’s Shopify blog

Mini Shopify Service Upsells for Web Designers

Mini Shopify Service Upsells for Web Designers

In addition to having full website redesign packages, it’s nice to be able to offer smaller packages to repeat clients so they can incrementally spruce up their store. These packages can boost your monthly income...
Why E-Commerce Brands Should be Blogging on Shopify

Why E-Commerce Brands Should be Blogging on Shopify

To create a beautiful shoppable blog posts, we recommend our Shoppable blog mini-course. Insert products, collections and newsletter sign ups right into your blog post content with ease! Why are blogs important for e-commerce? Blogs have...
Shoppable Blog Post on Shopify with embedded products and collections

How to Add Products into a Blog Post on Shopify

Shopify is the best ecommerce platform for businesses. They have the most comprehensive ecommerce theme designs and features and an extensive app store to expand the possibilities of any store’s features. Where it is surprisingly...
How to Optimize Images for Shopify

Shopify Image Optimization: Compression, SEO and Tips

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...
Highlights from Shopify Editions Summer 2024

What's New in Shopify Editions Summer 2024? Our Highlights

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...
15 Reasons Why Shopify is the Best Ecommerce Platform

15 Reasons Why Shopify is the Best Ecommerce Platform

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...
Should Design Studios Move Their Websites to Shopify?

Should Design Studios Move Their Websites to Shopify?

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...
Highlights from Shopify Editions Winter '24

What's New in Shopify Editions Winter 2024? Our Highlights

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...
How to use Shopify’s Search & Discovery app for more sales

Shopify Search & Discovery App: Optimizations for More Sales

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...
How do I make my Shopify store accessible?

Shopify ADA Compliance: How to Make Your Website Accessible

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...
What to do when a client doesn’t have the budget to work with you

Low Budget Clients: How to Offer Ways to Work Together

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...
Best Podcasts for Shopify Web Designers (2024)

Best Podcasts for Shopify Web Designers (2024)

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...