The Designer’s Shopify blog

With a new year comes new goals, including financial business goals. Us freelancers and business owners don’t have a set income, so we need to plan our revenue and expenses in advance to meet our...

Why is it important to update your ecommerce website for the holidays? When we say the holiday season, we're talking about November and December, going into Christmas and Hanukkah. Many shoppers do their holiday shopping...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...