Not all Shopify themes are created equal.
Even in the Shopify Theme Store, which has a carefully curated collection of fewer than 50 themes, some are certainly better than others.
That's we've learned In working on Shopify themes for the last five years.
(Which is why we now only work on themes from trusted developers.)
For new store owners on Shopify, choosing the right theme can be an intimidating task.
On today's episode, I talk through my theming experience, and we take a deep dive into a new theme that's become my preferred go-to choice.
Joining us is Brad Miller from Out of the Sandbox.
Brad is the founder and CEO of Out of the Sandbox, the designers of Shopify's best reviewed and most popular themes.
Out of the Sandbox has been designing revolutionary online shops and setting trends in the ecommerce world since 2011.
Their theme work has earned them a Shopify Design Award, and they've continued to push the technological boundaries for high-performance ecommerce.
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Learn:
- Why start with a premium theme from the Shopify theme store?
- How Turbo theme achieves incredible performance
- The ‘Ludicrous’ feature exclusive to Turbo
- Turbo’s clever solution to images
- 40% of customers will abandon a site that takes more than 3 seconds to load
- The most requested features from Out of The Sandbox and what to expect next
- How the Theme Updater app automatically gets you the latest features
- What you can do to get the best support
- Use Code PODCAST20 to save 20% off the purchase price of Turbo
Links Mentioned:
- Turbo Theme - Use Code PODCAST20 to save 20% off the purchase price of Turbo
- Out of The Sandbox Themes
Full Transcript:
Kurt Elster: Hello, welcome back to the Unofficial Shopify Podcast. I'm Kurt Elster, recording from Ethercycle headquarters outside Chicago, in beautiful Park Ridge, Illinois, on the second floor, all the way up in the clouds, of the Pickwick Building. Eh, that joke's lame. Forget it.
Anyway, so I'm excited. I've got a great guest today on a topic that literally all of us can relate to. At least I hope we can all relate to it. Picking a theme.
Picking a theme is really hard and the reason is, they're not all made alike, right? So we've got an internal rule now, is hey, if it's not from our approved ... First we said, listen if it's a third-party theme, that's not in the Shopify theme store, I don't even want to mess with it because it's, there's probably a reason. Then it became, well, even within the Shopify theme store, none of them are bad, but some are certainly better than others.
So, it became, all right, we're just going to come up with a shortlist of themes that we kno