Designing themes

From Spiffy Stores Knowledge Base

The default themes not cutting it for ya? No problem! You can load one of our themes from the Theme Gallery to get started and then edit it using our Theme Editor. Alternatively you can create your own theme from scratch using your favourite HTML editor.

When you’ve finished creating and testing your new theme, zip it up and upload it through the "Design & Assets" section.

Contents 1 Additional images and assets 2 Using Liquid 3 Theme Menus 4 Tutorials

Additional images and assets

If your custom theme requires some additional files, you can upload them to your own server or 3rd-party file host and link to them in your store using their full URL.

Using Liquid

• Liquid Basics
• The variables you can use
• The available filters
• Pagination

Theme Menus

Every theme is going to need some menus.

Your Spiffy Store supports a range of different menu options, from simple static menus, to fully-fledged dynamic drop-down menus.

• How to Make Single-level Menus using linklists.list
• How to Make Multi-level Menus using linklists.menu_simple
• How to Make Drop-down Menus using linklists.menu

Tutorials

• Product Customizations
• The Spiffy Theme Guide
• How to enable Google Analytics
• Complying with Google Checkout's Button Placement Requirements
• Customising Lightbox
• How to export Products For Google Base
• How To Display An Image
• How To Navigate Within A Collection
• Extended Logic For Product Pages
• Asking your customer for additional information
• Using your Blog's RSS Feed
• Using Dreamweaver to edit your store theme
• Theme Customizations