Useful and important links for creating your first Shopify theme

[Jamie]

Let's move right along.

Tools!:

Shopify FD Dash Tool: I can't sing enough praises for this bookmarklet and extension. It is the swiss army knife for reaching metafields for everything within the admin. It's amazing. Rock on Jason. Please feel free to add something to his kitty for all the work and effort that went into this tool for everyone to benefit from.

Chrome extension here: http://shopify.freakdesign.com.au/#shopifyFD_chrome

Bookmarklet here: https://shopify.freakdesign.com.au/

Shopify theme tool: http://apps.shopify.com/desktop-theme-editor

Textmate Bundle: http://wiki.shopify.com/Shopify_Textmate_Bundle

Some great tutorials:

Shopify theme from scratch in the wiki: http://wiki.shopify.com/Theme_from_scratch

Great series of tutorials from our very own Tetsuro: http://www.tetchi.ca/shopify-theme-from-scratch/

A series of more advanced tutorials: http://wiki.shopify.com/Tutorials

Liquid Cheat Cheet: http://cheat.markdunkley.com/

Barebones themes that can help you get started:

Shopify's latest and greatest framework, Timber.

"Twigs" -> Add-ons for Timber. http://twigs.club/

Skeleton Theme By Caroline: 

Fork it! -> Repo here: https://github.com/Shopify/skeleton-theme

Foundation theme by Cam: 

https://theme-framework.myshopify.com

Fork it! -> Repo here: https://github.com/Cam/Shopify-Foundation-Theme

[Benjamin_Rosati]

You should also include the link to this PDF for specific technical details that need to be thought out before submiting a design

http://themes.shopify.com/documents/Theme_Review.pdf

[Cam-]

Nice set of links!

I created a theme built on Foundation Framework that I working on thorough documentation for, as a 'Shopify Theme Framework'. It may be useful to 'front end' coders. Especially those who use Foundation already.

http://foundation-theme.myshopify.com

 https://github.com/Cam/Shopify-Foundation-Theme

[Jamie]

Great work Cam! I'll add these to the top post as well.

[Cam-]

Awesome! I hope everyone finds it as useful as I do :)

Thanks Jamie.

[Gavin_Ballard1]

Hi guys,

Along the lines of what Cam's posted for the Foundation framework, I have a product called "Bootstrap for Shopify", which provides a comprehensive, well-documented and easy to use set of templates based on the Bootstrap framework.

It's available at http://bootstrapforshopify.com.

It is a paid product, so if advertising it here is inappropriate I apologise! Users are able to get it for free if they set up an Affiliate Licence with me.

[Jamie]

Hi Shabayek, We have plans in the new year for a Windows compatible theme tool as well. It's something we are aware of and hope to produce.

[henry5]

Awesome. Love the Foundation based shopify base theme. Wish I had known about this before I started on my current project. =)

[Jamie]

Yep! Check out the Skeleton theme as well there are many many many useful things to learn from that one as well. Keep any new resources coming. I'll add them to this thread.

[Cam-]

Ahhhh... Comments like that make sharing resources very worthwhile :)