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Welcome to my lens about Shopify. I am a fan of Shopify, the website that small business owners can use to build their own online shop. I am not associated with Shopify in any way, I just like what they are doing, and I like what other people are doing with their Shopify stores.
On this lens you will find links to Shopify, Shopify related sites, and Shopify stores. While I do not have my own Shopify store, I do plan to help my sister-in-law start her own Shopify storefront in the near future.
General Shopify Links
- Shopify
- The home of Shopify
- The Shopify Forum
- A handy link because without it you need to sign in to Shopify to access it.
- The Shopify Blog
- News and notes about Shopify.
- Jaded Pixel, the company that created Shopify
- Jaded Pixel is run by the four founding fathers of Shopify: Justin Palmer, Scott Lake, Daniel Weinand, and Tobias Lütke.
Shopify Stores
This is a list of Shopify stores currently selling products (at the rate that Shopify stores are being opened, this list can not hope to ever be considered complete). I found most of these through Google and some through the forum, but I may have missed a bunch. Regardless, I think the collection I have found is useful and interesting to people starting their own Shopify stores.
- re:organize
- a place for everything
- the Pasty
- the best place on the Web to buy pasties
- Pennington and Bailes
- Tailgating season is coming...we'll help you get dressed.
- Yarn Pirate
- Hand-dyed yarn
- Baby Pouter
- Baby girl clothing, shoes, and other items
- Sweet Pickle Designs
- Custom made onesies
- Whitfield Store Online
- All the Whitfield swag there is
- Plexobject Solutions
- software development and consulting company
- Reflections Jewelry Care
- A revolutionary jewelry cleaning system
- The Independent Propaganda Store
- Independent comics, graphic novels, mini-comics,and web comics
- SOZ Shop
- the carpenter block mini
- The Institute fanshop
- Concert t-shirts
- Dick Bird's Boutique
- Wulffmorgenthaler books and t-shirts
- Bowhead Babies
- Infant, toddler and girls hair accessories
- Slash7 Shop
- The kinds of things I dream up in late night coding-induced hazes, or when I accidentally snort the Mountain Dew instead of swallowing it
- Lykill
- Lykill records
- Arrogant Menswear
- Shirts and other menswear for arrogant men (and women)
- Monty Lounge Shop
- Black & white photography
- Angels & Airwaves
- Concert t-shirts
- Rusty Records
- Good music and good products
- The Grain Mill Company
- Mills and flakers
- Fiona Luing
- Jewellery
- Fast Ashleys
- Official Fast Ashleys Gear
- Sleeping Bear Orchards
- Jams, salsas and dried tart cherry products
- Lippy Shirts
- Fun t-shirts
- Taschen Blog
- German handbags(?)
- tiendaONLINE
- WilkinsMusic
- Carpetdiem
- Gelims and other flatwoven carpets and tribal items
- Kittiediddie
- Functional, fashionable and fantastic bags for fashion conscious kitty owners
- miso funky
- Handmade things to funkify your life!
- Chesapeake Ribbons
- Unique barrettes
- wear gratitude jewelry
- The most inspirational line of sterling jewelry ever crafted
- Binkyland Productions
- Premiere custom PC shopping center
- Blakelyn's Boutique
- Handmade jewelry
- shopmodi
- Modern home accessories
- The King
- The best keyboard tray, ever
- Fake Monkey
- Funky bead bracelets
- Computer, Internet and Mobile Technology Shop
- Computer, Internet and Mobile Technology
- lena's notebook
- T-shirts
- Blender Tutorials
- Video tutorials for helping you create PC games
- Stork Landing
- We offer birth announcements and yard displays for all occasions
- Tajima Photography
- Beautiful greeting cards, fine art prints and photographic posters
Links for designing your store
There is a lot of documentation for designing Shopify stores. I've collected some of them here.
- A Vision Makeover
- A tutorial
- The Shopify Theme Guide
- A wiki about themes
- Shopify Documentation
- The Shopify wiki
- Vision
- The Vision homepage
- Liquid Documentation
- The Liquid wiki
- Cliff's guide to using your own domain name
- Step by step guide to using your own domain name.
Instructions for inserting images into Liquid files (not CSS files)
This might seem obvious to everyone else, but in case I'm not alone, here is something I found helpful.
I had been tinkering with the Vision template builder, and I ran across one simple thing that confounded me. When I added an image to the Liquid file (not the CSS), Vision would never show the image. I was using the regular html tags of 'img src='. Finally, after much hair pulling, I found this article in the Shopify documentation which shows the correct method of adding an image to Liquid files. I had a hard time finding this link, so I thought I would carve it out here for anyone who hits the same roadblock.
I had been tinkering with the Vision template builder, and I ran across one simple thing that confounded me. When I added an image to the Liquid file (not the CSS), Vision would never show the image. I was using the regular html tags of 'img src='. Finally, after much hair pulling, I found this article in the Shopify documentation which shows the correct method of adding an image to Liquid files. I had a hard time finding this link, so I thought I would carve it out here for anyone who hits the same roadblock.
Adding a favicon to your store (favicon = the little icon in the URL bar)
This tip comes from TBKy of the SOZ Shop. How to design your own favicon for your shop at Degraeve.com.
Cliff's guide to using your own domain name
A step by step guide to using your own domain name.
Other web applications that work well with Shopify
As I read about other
As I read about store owners using other applications in conjunction with their Shopify stores I will list them here.
- Wufoo: simple to build online forms.
- PowerReviews: outsourced customer reviews.
Books that could help you design your Shopify store
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
I am not a website designer, but I have read the Head First book on CSS and HTML and I found it incredibly useful for tinkering with the CSS and Liquid templates used in Shopify.
Amazon Price: $23.99 (as of 09/04/2008)
Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers)
I believe Shopify is written in the programming language Ruby, and while I don't know Ruby, this is the book I would buy if I wanted to learn.
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 09/04/2008)
Technorati Tags
Hot topics on the forum at Shopify
These links go directly to the Shopify forum.
- Drop Shipping
- A hot topic, not only at Shopify, but apparently around other shopping cart type websites, is for the service to accomodate drop shipping.
- Forms
- A lot of shop owners would like to include forms on their Shopify storms, and this thread contains a couple of solutions (Wufoo and others).
- Domain names
- Using your own domain name in conjunction with your Shopify store is understandably a hot topic at the forums.
- The Mustang Post
- This isn't a long thread, but it is one of my favorites. The author (fivestargeneralstore) compares Shopify to the Mustang, as part of a plea to Jaded Pixel to keep Shopify true to it's own nature (shopping+simplicity).
