Theme settings

Theme Features:

Works on Desktop, Tablets and Mobiles! 

This theme is a responsive theme, meaning you will not need a separate mobile theme as this theme will adapt to different screen sizes.

With mobile shopping on the rise - it's very important to not annoy your 'mobile' viewers. Unlike other responsive themes - this theme is completely mobile friendly: the store, customer area and even the checkout are responsive! It took a lot of work, but your customers will appreciate it!

See an explanation on responsive design for more information. But it essentially means one website that works on a lot of different devices… which means more shoppers!

HTML5

These theme features strong use of HTML5, It uses HTML5 microdata to help search engines get all the data they need - even if a product is in stock or out of stock!! This is all done for you automatically so you don't have to worry about a thing, just reap the extra SEO benefits!

Social Media integration

This theme allows you to have links in the footer to all your social networks, a twitter feed in the footer and Social widgets for sharing on the product pages - you just need to select which ones you want and you're good to go - no extra plug ins required!

Facebooks OpenGraph data - This theme makes extensive use of Facebook's opengraph, this is like Facebook's version of HTML5 Microdata. This gives facebook, and in the future, other social networks exactly the data they need - product price, description and number of likes etc. So when a user shares your products they will be displaying a lot of information via facebook. 

ADDING YOUR PRODUCTS TO THE SHOP

If you haven’t already done so, now is a good time to add products to your shop.

For help with adding products, take a look at the Shopify Wiki.

SETTING UP COLLECTIONS & LINKLISTS

Collections are a way to organise your products into categories. Linklists allow you to choose links to appear, and the order for them to appear in.

To show products on the home page and have greater control over the navigation bars within this theme, you should create the following collections and linklists.

CREATE A COLLECTION CONTAINING ALL PRODUCTS

  1. Go to Collections from the admin area.
  2. Click Add Smart Collection.
  3. Name your collection All Products.
  4. Under Set your conditions choose Inventory stock is greater than 0.
  5. Click Create Collection.

CREATE A COLLECTION FOR THE HOME PAGE

  1. Go to Collections again.
  2. Click Add Custom Collection.
  3. Add the products you wish to have on the home page.
  4. Click Create Collection.
  5. Go to Themes, Theme Settings.
  6. Under Home Page choose this collection from the dropdown to display on the home page.
  7. Click Apply changes.

CREATING OTHER COLLECTIONS FOR YOUR PRODUCTS

If you haven’t done so already, you should sort your products so that each product appears within a Collection.

You may wish to give each collection a description by clicking Collections, then the collection you wish to edit, clicking Editand typing in a description.


CUSTOMISING THE THEME

There are various other settings available for this theme. Here’s a description of what each setting does:

Light or Dark theme

This setting dramatically changes the overall look of this theme. You can then customise the theme further with more settings below.

HEADER CONTENT

  • Use image for site title? – Use the image uploaded below this setting for the site title instead of text. (1)
  • Site title image – Upload an image to use for the site title instead of text.
  • Site subheading – This appears under the site title. (2)

  • Which link list contains your collections? – A link list to use for the main navigation strip. (3)

Product pages

Sharing buttons

There is the option to display Social media icons on your products, which allow your customers to easily share your products. Simply click the check box of the buttons/badges you would like to include on your product pages. This theme currently supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest.

Footer

Social Media Links

There is an option to feature links to your social media accounts (Facebook, twitter etc…) simply click the check box next to the links you want. And then enter in your account / url next to the fields you require - you can also specify lighter or darker icons to match your current theme settings…

Twitter Feed

There is an option to display your latest tweets in the footer.

If you would like the feed to display, simply click the checkbox and then choose an amount (we recommend 3). You can also change the title text above the feed. (This text also links to your twitter account).

Payment methods

You can specify which payment methods you allow, and this theme will display the correct icons in the footer of every page.

Fonts

Header Fonts

This theme supports a number of unique and standard fonts for the headers, so that you can fine tune your site to match your brand.

Body Fonts

You can also adjust all the other text on the theme from a wide selection.

Message / Contact strip

This theme features a customsiable banner that will appear on all pages, that can be used for special notices, or promotions such as Free shipping, or opening times etc. It features a free text area to add your message, and then you can also choose where this message links to, or you can leave this blank and the text will be static text.

Display contact details

This area can also be used to add in your contact details (The Phone number & Email address that you entered in your store setup.)

Homepage

Featured Products

You can choose which products you would like to feature on your home page below the slider and the welcome text. You simply choose the name of the collection you would like to feature, or create a new collection just for your homepage and then select it here.

Homepage carousel

This theme features a large eyecatching carousel, which you can turn on or off. If you choose to feature the slider, you can add up to six images and these will auto rotate. You can also choose where each image should link to ie. a particular product or a collections listing.

Cart Page

In this section you can add a text box to cart page - which allows your customers to give you extra information when they palce their order.

Additional layouts

Customer Area Layout

This theme allows you to override the default Shopify customer area and use the styling from this theme. We recommend activating this as the default layout will look different to your theme, and does not work on a mobile. Where as this theme does.