Dawn Theme Customization - Request To Developers - add in Theme Settings - Image Shape and Aligment

[NYCK]

HI There 

in Boost them under collection there is extra setting under Theme settings 2 options , Image Shape and Image Alignment that allow my images in collections to stay even  (see images) i also want to know if dawn can add the option to show each color as a separate style in collection , right now i managed to to do by custom coding , but i need to added manually each time the theme get updated to a new version   , and one more add on , is the option to show available sizes on hover in collection , which i could not find in any theme , however my previous developer had thins functionality on my other website at https://www.dndshoes.com/products.html  

also my website with dawn showing very low speed score (34) , i was under the impression that dawn them should be faster 

[Jacob_Killian]

You need version control. Please learn how to use it before you dive in. But there's no reason why you can't have a *private* git repository on your dev system and merge your changes to dawn updates. I suspect you also need a sandbox to test your merged theme before going live in production with it.

I like the addon!

As for speed score? Used to be people would loop collections to filter for the right one. Liquid now has a where filter which is much faster. If you're using custom liquid to filter the collection: make sure it isn't looping all collections to filter. The other thing is you might look at image optimization - check your image tags - make sure you aren't loading 1000 width images when you only need 50. Looks like javascript is being used in the customization - open up your browser's dev console and start looking for slowdowns. Bad javascript (or just poorly loaded good javascript) will make a site slow to a crawl like nothing else.

I know I'm late replying, but stumbled on this looking for an answer to a question I have about customizing dawn.

I hope you found your answers before now. Mostly putting this here for the next person in your shoes.

[NYCK]

Hi Jacob 

thank you for replying , 

i am not familiar with "version control" and private* git repository

but i am a fast learner , if you can send me a link on where i can get familiar with the above 

i am in a process of moving to a new inventory control system, and i may be moving to Big Commerce since they have better integration with them  

one of my biggest issues is the images that are not the same ratio , they told me that with Big Commerce they can resolve it 

my goal is to make it like my other site dndshoes.com