The Designer’s Shopify blog

What is Shopify 2.0?

What is Shopify OS 2.0? Your Complete Guide

Before Online Store 2.0, there was just Shopify. There were certain features that people were begging for for years, and suddenly… they were here. Shopify Online Store (OS) 2.0 is a version of Shopify that...
How to Manager your Design Projects to Streamline Operations

Project Management: How to Streamline Operations in Your Design Business

You must be thinking. Isn’t Google Drive enough? While Google Drive is great, it’s not designed to manage projects. A specific project management platform helps you keep track of tasks holistically against the entire project....
How Linktree Harms Your Brand (and the solution!)

How Linktree Harms Your Brand & the Best Alternative

What is Linktree or Link in Bio? Ever read, “Link in bio” in someone’s Instagram caption? This means the creator is pointing you to go to their Instagram bio to where they've shared a URL for...
How to Make Color Swatches for Shopify

Shopify Color Swatches: How to Make and Use Them

What are color swatches? Color swatches are visual representations of the color, pattern or texture of a product being sold on an e-commerce website. They're shown as small circles or squares that can be selected to...
How to set up Google Analytics on Shopify

Shopify & Google Analytics 4 (2024): How to Set Up

I admit… I think tracking is fun. Who doesn’t love the excitement of launching a website and seeing how many visitors there were, where they came from, and what they did on the site? Shopify...
How to Use Custom Fonts on Shopify

How to Add an Instagram Feed to Your Shopify Store

There are several that allow you to add an Instagram feed to a store in the Shopify theme store but here are my go-to favorites that I use on all my stores. 
How to Use Custom Fonts on Shopify

Got your First Shopify Client as a Web Designer? Here's What to Do

First Steps for a Shopify Web Designer So you’ve scored your first Shopify website design client but you have no idea what the best way is to start. Perhaps you usually work on Squarespace or...
How to Add Anchor Links on Shopify

How to Create Anchor Links on Shopify: An Easy Solution

Have you come to this article thinking that an anchor link should be a super easy thing to do, but finding it impossible or clunky on Shopify? I’ve been there and came up with an...
How to Add Sections everywhere on Shopify 1.0 themes

How to Add Sections Everywhere on Shopify 1.0 Themes

On Shopify, it has traditionally been easy to make a great looking homepage with the theme's section building blocks, but difficult to edit other pages to look equally exciting. That’s why page builders like PageFly...
Questions to ask in a Shopify Inquiry Call to Win the Job - For web designers

Shopify Website Discovery Calls: Questions to Ask to Win the Job

Inquiry calls can be tough if you’re not prepared. But here’s the secret: the most important thing about an inquiry call is to LISTEN. I’m revealing my formula for winning the inquiry calls you want...
Must Have apps for Shopify

Must-Have Shopify Apps (2024): Expert Recommendations

Let’s talk about the best apps to have on Shopify. I often see people complaining that Shopify requires too many paid apps to work and I completely disagree. The first step to avoiding excessive app...
Centered Logo Header - A Flex Theme Shopify Tutorial

Flex Theme Header Tutorial: How to Center the Logo

When building client websites, I always look to start with a paid premium theme that closely resembles the design I'm going for. Sometimes there isn't really anything that fits well -- some themes have some...