I'm Ketan ‐ A Melbourne web designer and developer
with over 20 years of industry experience.
Building a new store with Shopify is easy, but getting it right is hard. Selling online requires web and design experience, and understanding how users shop online is vital to your strategy. My Shopify website audit is recommended if you have set up your store and require help making it easy to use with a great user experience.
16 March 2023 website audit ux design shopify
ecommercewebdesigner.co.uk
By default, Shopify’s order status page displays a map of the delivery destination and a standard “Order updates” box. Both of these aren’t essential for the customer and take up valuable space. Read more
14 March 2023 shopify
Shopify is a popular ecommerce platform which powers over 600,000 businesses across the world. It has some great features and a very well designed admin that makes running your store a breeze. But, what make’s it so good?
I was recently tasked with creating a filtered product comparison page for a client’s website and thought I’d take advantage of Shopify 2.0’s new filters option.
1 April 2022 metafields shopify filters
With Shopify 2.0 came built-in metafield options, allowing additional data to be saved against products, variants, collections, and orders. The new metafields introduced a JSON field that would allow for all data types. Before this, we had to rely on third-party apps (which weren’t very good).
15 February 2022 metafields shopify
While browsing through the discussions on the Shopify Community website, I came across a few posts from people requesting feedback on their new stores and felt inclined to offer some helpful advice.
1 December 2021 shopify design development
Drop caps have been used in printed media for a long time to add styling to the first letter of the first paragraph of piece of content.
This month, I’ve been working on designing and building the new shop for Hearing Dogs, a UK charity that trains dogs to alert deaf people to important and life-saving sounds they would otherwise miss.
24 September 2021 front-end development web design shopify ecommerce
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A few days ago Shopify announced some of its upcoming features at their annual Unite event. Some of the exciting announcements for me were themes 2.0, improved performance, metafields (finally, and it looks flippin’ awesome!), more focus on store content, GitHub integration for devs, and more checkout customisation possibilities. Read more
www.shopify.com
One of the most requested features for Shopify has been subcriptions, and finally there is something available, albeit through their APIS. Read more
I recently read a blog post by Shopit Commerce about how Shopify limits its features based on their plans. It was a pointless post that focuses on the “issues” with using Shopify, in order to magnify their own offering. But, it made me think about all the good features Shopify does have.
12 May 2020 shopify ecommerce web development
Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a uniquely challenging Shopify project in which I had to create a “customise your product” section using only the options available in Shopify.
2 May 2020 shopify web design web development
medium.com
A brilliant way of using a sectioned liquid template across multiple Shopify pages. Read more
8 January 2020 shopify liquid web design
www.oberlo.com
Starting an online store is not as easy as some platforms make out. There are a lot of effort required in getting those first few sales. This article by Oberlo, covers the essentials. Read more
2 January 2020 shopify ecommerce online store business
www.shopify.com.au
A great article about lessons learned from running online stores. If you’re a new business or are thinking of starting an online store, this is definitely worth a read. Read more
Here’s a little trick I learned for removing null or empty values from an array in Shopify’s liquid.
20 October 2019 shopify liquid web development
By now, you should know which ecommerce platform you will use for your online store, and now the hard work begins. But where do you start?
26 October 2018 ecommerce project web design shopify
Sometimes you need to display accompanying information for a product and rather than trying to fit it all on to one web page, displaying it as a modal is often the best option.
26 June 2018 web design shopify
Recently, I’ve been working on a Shopify site that needed to display both VAT exclusive and inclusive prices to customers who are disabled or have specific health conditions.
21 June 2018 shopify web development
I’ve designed and built a lot of ecommerce sites during my career and have even built my own ecommerce platform. But, recently I started using Shopify as my chosen system and have been very impressed with how it all works.
25 February 2018 shopify
Update: February 2018
