The Designer’s Shopify blog

What is headless Shopify and when to use it?

Headless Shopify: What It Is, and When to Use It

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...
Should you build a Shopify store from scratch?

Shopify Themes vs. Building a Custom Theme from Scratch

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...
How to open external links in a new tab on Shopify

How to Open External Links in a New Tab on Shopify

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...
How Shopify Website Designers Can Leverage Chat GPT

How Shopify Website Designers Can Leverage Chat GPT

Yes, it's all the rage these days: Chat GPT. Some love it and have quickly adopted it, while others are more skeptical and fear its potential impact on their profession. As a Shopify Certified Expert...
How to add different store languages on Shopify

How to Add Multiple Languages to Your Shopify Store

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...
How to add different currencies on Shopify

How to Enable Multi-Currency Shopping on Your Shopify Website

What is Shopify Multi-Currency?  Shopify multi-currency means enabling shoppers to make purchases in their local currency, so that they know the final price upon purchase without worrying about foreign transaction fees.  When online shopping, one...
What are Shopify Sales Channels

Shopify Sales Channels: Benefits of selling multi-channel

What is a Shopify sales channel? Shopify’s sales channels are a way to reach more customers by selling on other platforms, all while managing your products, sales and inventory in one place. Selling multichannel introduces...
How to design packaging for store and online with Laura Evans

How to Design Packaging for Store Shelves and Online Stores

Products sold online and products sold in retail don't always require the exact same packaging design approach. My experience as a brand and packaging designer is mainly in retail. The big brand agencies I worked...
What's New in Shopify Editions Summer 2023? Our Highlights

What's New in Shopify Editions Summer 2023? Our Highlights

Shopify Product Updates 1. New Admin Design Log in to your Shopify Admin and you’ll see that things look a bit different. There’s a more compact and clean design starting with the new single column home...
Shopify & GDPR: How to Make Sure Your Site is Compliant

Shopify & GDPR: How to Make Sure Your Site is Compliant

If your store is accepting payments online and collecting, processing or storing visitor information (which all Shopify websites are), then you need to make sure that your website is compliant with privacy regulations of your...
Shopify Passive Income: How to Generate Recurring Revenue

Shopify Passive Income: How to Generate Recurring Revenue

Earning passive income as a web designer First of all, what is passive income? Passive income is income that often requires work to be done upfront, but ideally doesn't require too much active effort to...
Best Shopify Themes for Blogging

Best Shopify Themes for Blogging in 2025 (and Must-Have Features)

Why Your Shopify Blog Matters Blogs can be a great tool to improve a website's SEO. Beyond that, it can provide value to customers by providing educational information that helps inform their purchases (such as...