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Managing Crisis: Strategies for Resilience in Shopify Development Projects
In the dynamic world of e-commerce, managing crisis situations effectively can mean the difference between a minor setback and a catastrophic failure. As a project manager overseeing Shopify development projects, it's essential to be prepared for unexpected challenges and to implement strategies that foster resilience. Let's explore some key strategies...
Continue ReadingThe Role of A/B Testing in Shopify Development: Strategies for Optimization
In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, staying ahead of the curve requires continuous optimization and refinement. A/B testing, also known as split testing, plays a crucial role in Shopify development...
Continue ReadingHow to Add a Link Into Shopify Schema Info
The look and organization of an online shop is an important aspect of having a successful business. Shopify has developed "Theme Editor" to provide a simple way for store owners...
Continue ReadingThe Challenges Of Testing Shopify Stores
You've created the best online store for your business – at least that was your intention. Now you need to have a Quality Assurance (QA) tester examine if your site...
Continue ReadingShopify Collection Storefront Filtering
The user experience on many Shopify stores has been made simpler and more effective through the introduction of the filtering feature, which allows users to quickly narrow down the products...
Continue ReadingCustomize the robots.txt file on your Shopify store
Shopify changed the game for e-commerce with its multifaceted tools for managing and growing a business. As powerful and flexible the platform could be, companies in the past have had...
Continue ReadingGoogle Analytics 4 E-commerce on Shopify
You’ve probably heard by now that Google is projected to stop supporting Universal Analytics (GA3) starting in July, 2023. Which means that there’s no time like the present to start...
Continue ReadingShopify Product Reviews Benefits & Troubleshooting
If you’re on the hunt for ways to boost sales in your Shopify store (and let’s face it, who isn’t?) one of the best steps to take is to add...
Continue ReadingAdd Vimeo Videos In The Image Area Of A Product in The Shopify Venture Theme
Product images are one thing, but product videos, that’s a whole new level of awesome. I’m sure you’ve considered putting YouTube videos up in your product image galleries, and there...
Continue ReadingTwo Or More Featured Images For A Collection In Shopify
If you find yourself in Shopify in any capacity, you probably already know that Shopify allows you to upload a featured image for a collection, and for the most part...
Continue ReadingIntegrating A Responsive Page for Youtube Videos in Shopify
While it is commonly known that a picture is worth 1,000 words, a video has 24 pictures every second, so to count how many words a video is worth is...
Continue ReadingOptimize Your Images In Shopify Themes For Better Performance
Load times are important, no way around that fact. People are surfing on their phones, on computers, on WiFi hotspots, so in the unbelievably fast-paced world of online browsing, even...
Continue ReadingOrdering Your Shopify Product Collections By Size Tags
Filters are everything! Whether you are shopping the sale section of your favorite online brand for some new jeans and only want to see your size, or looking at analytics...
Continue ReadingBlog Articles Navigation Through An Image Gallery In Shopify
One of the great features of the Shopify platform is giving its users an interface to create and post blog posts on their website. In fact, you might be surprised...
Continue ReadingShopify - Progressive Web Apps
YOUR SHOPIFY STORE? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT! Anything you could imagine, there’s an app for that! With the advent of smart phone technology and tablets, “there’s an app for...
Continue ReadingLeveraging The Full Power Of Shopify's Product Media Feature
At the start of this year Shopify launched the product media feature. With this new feature, in addition to images you can now also add videos and 3D models to...
Continue ReadingLeveraging The Power Of Alternate Layouts In Shopify
I suspect a lot of Shopify developers are like me and spend so much time daily working on template, section, and snippet files that it is easy to overlook the...
Continue ReadingChanging Your Collection Header Image Depending On The Tag
Header images are often used on Collection pages in Shopify as a bit of a preview of what is to come. Your collection page is often overlooked as far as...
Continue ReadingGet Around Those Pesky Limits & Use The Shopify API To Get Your Data
You’ve got some products and an internet connection, so you’ve got a website. You’ve got a website full of products, so your website has data. You’ve got a website that...
Continue ReadingHow To Get Around Shopify's 50 Product Limit In Collections
Although Shopify is an incredible resource for eCommerce, Shopify intentionally limits the number of products you can access in the collection object to 50 per page. In other words, the...
Continue ReadingWhy & How To Improve Your Store’s Performance
While there was a time that even selling your products online put you ahead of other retailers, that time is no more. Everyone has the capability of selling their products...
Continue ReadingPotential ‘Boom’ of Voice Search in Shopify
Hi Siri - Ok Google - Hi Alexa, any of these sound familiar? I’m guessing that your answer is yes. As these home assistants expand rapidly and suddenly everybody uses...
Continue ReadingRandomizing Content In Shopify
At this point, you have most likely come to learn that, any time your client asks for a “quick update” or a really “simple fix” it’s never actually quick or...
Continue ReadingMake It Searchable: A Hot Tip On Shopify Website Searchability
You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again. You only get so many seconds of engagement from a potential site visitor before they bounce, so making your website completely...
Continue ReadingA Sneaky Yet Useful Option For Optimizing Images on Shopify
One of the best things you can do for yourself and for your business is to educate yourself on all of the platforms, services, and applications that you use in...
Continue ReadingShopify Filter By Tag With Capital Letters
Shopify offers an automatic way for filtering collections, this is by using product tags. If you want to see only the products that have a specific tag from a collection,...
Continue ReadingBulk Control Fonts And Color Styles in Shopify With Just A Link
When making a Shopify online store, you want to be able to control every single aspect of your website. You want each page to look exactly like you want (or...
Continue ReadingExpanding the Shopify Rich Text Editor with Shortcodes
Look at you, you’re a renaissance man… or woman! You aren’t constrained by anything. Your products have as many variants as YOU decide, not what your platform tells you. Only...
Continue ReadingHow To Add A Link Towards The First Collection That Contains A Product
Sometimes, if you take enough turns, you forget the way back. That’s true for both exploring nature and exploring websites. The best bet to find your way back is the...
Continue ReadingAutomatically Open the First Available Variant Using Liquid and jQuery
What is an online store if you can’t have multiple options of every item. What are you only going to sell shirts in one color, shoes in one size, and...
Continue ReadingParsing Query String Parameters in Shopify
While Shopify is a very powerful tool for eCommerce businesses to showcase their products and customize their website to suit their specific needs, when it comes to the nitty gritty...
Continue ReadingBlack Friday and Cyber Monday Survival Guide for Shopify Store Owners
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are obviously major shopping holidays here in the United States. For some of us, it’s an exciting time,...
Continue ReadingHow to Develop a "Build a Box" Product in Shopify - Part 2: How to Remove the Limit on Flavors in the Box
That’s right folks! A sequel… and let me say something right off the bat. I know that most sequels are never as good as the original, but I’m going to...
Continue ReadingSometimes You Just Want More Words. How to Add a Secondary Product Description in Shopify.
They say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, but sometimes your client wants another 1,000… because, you know… otherwise, the world apparently explodes. Or, sometimes you just have a...
Continue ReadingCustomize Your Product Variant Dropdown in Shopify
Outside of the all of the nitty gritty details of what makes your business function, the core of what your users interact with on a daily basis is your brand...
Continue ReadingTake Control of More Than the Color Wheel and Apply RGBA Color Elements to Shopify via Theme Editor
When designing the elements of your Shopify store, you have the nearly infinite color spectrum at your fingertips. Colors that only have names on paint store color swatches. The conventional...
Continue ReadingAdding User Editable YouTube Video Fields in Shopify
Introduction It’s 2019, pictures are out and videos are in. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, than how many words is a video worth? 1 million? Depends on the...
Continue ReadingHow to Develop a "Build a Box" Product in Shopify
IT’S ALIVE! Cried Dr. Frankenstein as his monster came to life. A monster composite monster comprised of a number of parts from many different people. A Halloween classic, and surprisingly...
Continue ReadingSHOW ME THE MONEY: How to Find the Price of the Most Expensive Item in a Shopify Store
Whether it’s for bragging rights, or you’re trying to give someone an idea of the prices of the products you sell, or you just want to know for the hell...
Continue ReadingTwo Pictures for the Price of One! The Shopify Gallery Hack You’ve Been Looking For
Every click counts. Every swipe matters. Every scroll is important. The speed with which people are cruising through websites makes the Autobahn look like an elementary school parking lot, which...
Continue ReadingMake Your Shopify Product Pages Sing With This Handy Sections/Blocks Workaround
That Shopify homepage is the star of the show, no doubt! That’s where you land, that’s where the funnel begins, that’s where the magic happens. Luckily, Shopify gives you an...
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