store design

Did you know that adding Judge.me reviews to the recommended products section in Easy Content Builder can make a big impact on potential customers?

By showcasing products that have received positive feedback from other customers, you can help persuade new visitors to make a purchase. You can show your "Best Reviewed Products" or simply show the star ratings for each item. It's a great way to build trust and increase sales.

Coming up with a logo is a crucial step when it comes to building your Shopify store.

Whether you design a logo from scratch yourself, pick a logo generated by a logo maker, or hire a professional logo designer, you may end up going through the following questions when preparing a Logo Brief or picking your final logo:

• How do I know I picked the wrong logo?
• Which logo file formats do I need for my Shopify store and why?
• (If you decide to design your logo yourself) How to create an aesthetic and meaningful logo that goes far beyond a pretty visual?

I put together a logo design toolkit that assists you in the process of designing or evaluating your logo for your Shopify store.

You'll be glad to know that Easy Content Builder now supports structured data (schema.org) to create rich snippets for the Circle Menu, Accordion, and Featured Products sections, as well as all blog posts. This will help improve the overall SEO performance of your Shopify store.

For any Shopify store, in addition to the main mega menu with multi-columns and images, there's another useful menu type called the circle menu (also known as bubble navigation) that can be integrated within the body of the homepage, the filter at the top of collection pages, or any page of your choice.

Check out these 10 real ecommerce stores that use circle menus to enhance their navigation. This will give you valuable insights and best practices for implementing circle menus in your Shopify store.

Let's dive in.

How can you choose a typeface combination for your Shopify store? In this article, we'll share the top 10 free font pairings for your Shopify Dawn theme. These pairings are beautifully designed, mainly using Google fonts, and can help maintain consistency across your Shopify stores.

Choosing the right typeface combination is crucial; that's why many businesses consistently use the same font pairing across all of their marketing.

Nov 30, 2023 Update: If you want to display an Author profile on an article, product, or any page, we recommend you use the ECB Author metaobject. This way, you can create a single Author profile and reuse it on any page. Any edits you make to this artist profile will automatically be reflected on any page where it is used.

Blogs and content creation can be an effective marketing channel for any Shopify store. There are some arguments against how essential a blog is to a Shopify store - especially from ones who prefer to use transactional tactics such as Facebook, Google, or TikTok ads. But, if you aim at brand building in the long run, having an ecommerce blog as part of your Shopify store is a must-have and highly beneficial.

In this article, we will explore 10 amazing blog examples from Shopify stores and learn a few things about how to build an effective ecommerce blog.

For any Shopify store, About Us is a substantial page that you need to take seriously. Anyone new to your store wants to learn more than just the price point before they make a purchase decision. So, "About Us" page is an effective way to connect with your potential customers better and earn their trust over time.

This article will provide 12 best 'About Us' examples and tips for creating a compelling About Us page on your Shopify stores.

Looking for effective landing page examples for your Shopify store?

We've put together six Shopify landing pages that were built on the Dawn theme, so you can get inspired and create your own amazing pages.

But before you dive in, we recommend learning how to natively build and launch a landing page in Shopify itself. This will help you get the most out of your page-building experience.

We just pushed six new pre-built product templates and configuration improvements for the Easy Content Builder. You now have more page variations and content blocks when building a product detail page on Shopify. 

After months of hard work, we are excited to release Easy Content Builder (V2) with a complete overhaul of the code base, UI, new features, and improvements.

Let's take a closer look at what's new in the Easy Content Builder (V2).

Overhaul the whole code base

Our team did go the extra mile and re-wrote the whole Easy Content Builder's code base to optimize the app further and made sure our new UI blends in nicely.

Nov 30, 2023 Update: Easy Content Builder introduces a new feature that enables you to create new Shopify metaobject templates faster - a handy way to create fully custom pages such as Recipes, Ingredient Lists, Product manuals (pdf files), Author bio, etc., More details here.

Easy Content Builder now allows you to add custom data and content by using metaobjects as a dynamic source. Metaobjects help you define and create custom structured, reusable data to enrich your Shopify pages that standard features can't match - such as size charts, product FAQs, ingredient lists, collection banners, recipes, specifications, etc.

Currently, the Easy Content Builder app helps you create and connect metaobjects to your Shopify online store through dynamic sources for 3 types of content:

• Icons with text
• Tabs - coming soon
• Accordions - coming soon

July 2024 Update: As Andi shifts her focus to other channels, this store is now closed.

We're thrilled to spotlight Banana Llama, a brand owned by the Scottish artist - Andi. The bananallama.co.uk exemplifies minimal design and effective use of Easy Content Builder's features.

Meet Andi: The UX/UI Designer by day, freelance artist by night.

Andi has a strong passion for illustration & creativity. She provides unique hand-drawn pieces of Wall Art Prints, custom Portraits, or Birthday Cards.

We are thrilled to feature an outstanding female-owned skincare brand, The Smoom, that has utilized the Easy Content Builder to customize its homepage, collection page, and product page with informative yet concise sections.

The Smoom is known for its innovative product Face Floss™, which is made of 100% natural, vegan, and cruelty-free ingredients. The brand prides itself on carefully selecting nourishing natural ingredients to create gentle yet effective skincare solutions that cater to your skin's requirements without any unnecessary additives. You can check out The Smoom's homepage, collection, and product pages, created using the Easy Content Builder, to see how they have made the most of this tool.

It is our pleasure to highlight a remarkable brand called This Sucks™ that produces and distributes single origin ground coffee and mineral water. This Sucks™ is a perfect representation of a Shopify store that features a simple yet elegant design, coupled with effective use of the Easy Content Builder to enhance its homepage - https://this-sucks.com.

We're pleased to announce the new enhanced Custom CSS of our Easy Content Builder app (ECB) for Shopify. This update also brings some new product detail page templates.

For the past few weeks we have been exploring new features and updating every aspect of our Easy Content Builder (ECB) app. It’s been a while in the making; now, we’re happy to keep you informed on the latest updates to the ECB app. This release focuses on adding new product page templates, improving the core components of the app, and adding new features like on-scroll animations and column/row gaps. 

Enable animations on scroll

Easy Content Builder now supports the on-scroll animation, and it lets you apply different types of animation to elements within each section as you scroll down the page. Below are the different kinds of animation that are available for you to choose from:

We're really excited to introduce you to Voldt.co.uk, a fantastic Shopify store that uses Easy Content Builder, particularly the metaobject-backed sections, to enhance its product page and add a creative edge to its store. Voldt is a family business with over 100 years of experience in the automotive electrical sector, specializing in charging cables.

Mega menus (also known as expandable menus) are an excellent navigation choice if your Shopify store sells many SKUs. They reveal lower-level submenu items all at once when you click or hover over the main menu item.

As you might know, Dawn theme v5.0.0 introduces one of the most requested features - the Mega Menu, giving you more flexibility to organize your Shopify store's navigation.

Even though the Dawn theme only enables a relatively simple way to create the mega menu layout, it's a handy option to set up your main navigation without a 3rd party app.

Read on to learn:

1. Why are Mega menus important?
2. A step-by-step guide to creating a mega menu on the Dawn theme
3. 10 mega menu examples for inspiration

Easy Content Builder now introduces a new way to create metaobject templates faster. Whether you need to add unique content sections to specific products or create shared sections for multiple pages, metaobjects offer a flexible and efficient solution.

This article will shed light on what Shopify metaobjects are, when you should use metaobjects, and how to create a metaobject template on your Shopify store using Easy Content Builder.

Important Update: the Free version of Easy Content Builder is now available! Learn what the Free plan offers here.

We are thrilled to introduce our upcoming Shopify app - Easy Content Blocks - that lets you combine pre-designed blocks to inject inline content to a page within just a few minutes, without having to interact with Liquid templates or code. Add, configure, and preview changes in real time. It's that simple!

Content Blocks are flexible. You sort through the relevant blocks - featured product carousel, tabs, testimonials, or the other pre-designed blocks provided by Easy Content Blocks, then pick and customize each one to make it fit your needs.