Please Share Experiences Customizing Themes

Please Share Experiences Customizing Themes

WebShrox
New Member
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Hello fellow merchants!

 

I would like to create a collection of merchant experiences about the process of customizing a theme as I believe that the merchant community can benefit from it. I am currently setting up my store and very excited about this whole experience but at the same time I find it very difficult to achieve the look and feel I imagine my store to have. I tried out many themes from the store and while I must say that the customization of the general layout is almost endless and fantastic, I feel like the customization of details like hover animations, button sizes, shadows and more are fairly limited if you look at the possibilities provided by the theme settings. I understand that you can customize these things yourself using CSS but this is quiet a time-intensive process for me as I am not really a techie.

 

Did you guys also use CSS for your own store? Did you hire a Shopify Expert? Any cool apps to recommend? What theme are you using?...

 

So please be invited to share your experiences and tricks you have figured out when customizing your theme 🙂

 

Thanks,

Nathan

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WebShrox
New Member
4 0 0

Hey!

 

I have created two stores for my friends in the past. I know you asked for experiences of merchants but given that I went through this process twice already, I can perhaps share my perspective too. I must say that you are right about the limited customization options for detailed stuff. When I created the stores I wanted to make sure that the websites really stand out which is why I really value attention to details. For example, I customized the checkout button to have a bright gradient as a background with an animated shimmering effect on top to ensure that customers can easily find this button. I did all my customizations with CSS and a theme from the theme store. I was looking into Page Builder Apps but I was not really satisfied as I they did not have too many additional customization options. So in my opinion, if you want to have a store that stands out, you need to familiarize yourself with CSS. 

WebShrox
New Member
4 0 0

Thanks a lot for the quick response! Which page building apps have you tried - I am curious? I must say that I have not really looked into that. Perhaps others have different opinions about the customization options of these apps? 

Nate0804
Shopify Partner
1 0 0

Hello, Shopify offers quiet a few resources to understand how the whole ecosystem works. There are many tutorials on CSS, Liquid and HTML. Feel free to ask any specific questions on the forum

AryavK
Trailblazer
244 9 39

Hey man, I use dawn theme and I never needed to hire an expert yet. I did need to add css, liquid and more, but all that code was provided by the community. My store to see: www.faithandyou.in

 

faith&you
WebShrox
New Member
4 0 0

Hey! Really cool store, looks very modern and really fits your brand identity. I bet it was a lot of work to achieve this? I believe I should also try asking a question about some code if something comes up. But this process still sounds like it is taking a lot of time, doesn't it?

AryavK
Trailblazer
244 9 39

not really one you get used to it. it might take a few weeks but thats fine

faith&you