Friday 29 June 2018

What Led us to Consider Polaris, Shopify’s Design System

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What Led us to Consider Polaris, Shopify's Design System

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As Shopify App Developers, you want to build apps that are consistent and optimized for ease of use. In this article, app developers Swym walk through why they use Polaris, Shopify's design system, to keep their apps consistent as they scale features.

In this article, you'll learn:

  • What a good design system consists of
  • How to decide what design system is right for you
  • What problems Swym has solved by using Polaris

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Thursday 28 June 2018

Using Placeholder Images for Products with the placeholder_svg_tag filter

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Using Placeholder Images for Products with the placeholder_svg_tag filter

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When beginning to build a theme or prototype, many developers use some form of placeholder text or image. This is usually because we want and need our websites to feel real, authentic, and similar to the final product. The `placeholder_svg_tag` filter gives developers the power to take advantage of SVG placeholder illustrations in their Liquid templates.

In this article you will learn:

  • The benefits of using placeholder images when you have missing content
  • How to use the placeholder_svg_tag filter
  • How to add custom classes to a Shopify SVG placeholder, and best practices for class naming

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Wednesday 27 June 2018

Announcing Shopify Partner Academy Technical Exams: Test Your Knowledge and Elevate Your Craft

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Announcing Shopify Partner Academy Technical Exams: Test Your Knowledge and Elevate Your Craft

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Back in April, we launched Shopify Partner Academy, a series of courses and quizzes to help you learn important skills and grow your proficiency with Shopify.

Today, we're thrilled to announce a new component of Shopify Partner Academy: technical exams. You can start testing your technical know-how today, with our Theme Development Certification exam. Click through to learn how this exam will help you test your knowledge, deepen your expertize, and maintain your Shopify skill set.

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Tuesday 26 June 2018

10 Accounts to Follow on Instagram for UX & Web Design Inspiration

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10 Accounts to Follow on Instagram for UX & Web Design Inspiration

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With over 500 million active daily users, Instagram is a popular platform for artists, developers, and photographers to get endless inspiration from each other.

In order to get the most out of this platform though, you have to know who to follow. That's why we've compiled a list of 10 UX designers we think are worth following on Instagram today.

In this article you'll learn:

  • Who to follow for the latest UX and web design concepts and ideas.
  • Who to follow for workflow and design process inspiration.
  • Who to follow to engage in meaningful UX design conversations.

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Friday 22 June 2018

What’s New at Shopify: June 22, 2018

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What's New at Shopify: June 22, 2018

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With a lot happening throughout June, we decided to release a second edition of What's New this month to help keep our partner ecosystem in the know.

In this edition, we look at:

  • Shopify Ping
  • Store and product conversion analytics for merchants
  • Third party domain transfers
  • Signing into collaborator accounts

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Thursday 21 June 2018

How the New GraphQL Admin API Can Help You Manage Inventory and Locations

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How the New GraphQL Admin API Can Help You Manage Inventory and Locations

At this year's Unite, we announced some exciting new releases, including Locations and the GraphQL Admin API. While both of these announcements are exciting, we know you're busy—so what should you spend your limited RnD time on?

Well, why not both?

In this article you'll learn:

How to use the new Inventory APIs to create product variants and assign their initial inventory
How to manage the additional API calls the new Inventory API requires
How to use GraphQL to update inventory levels

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    Wednesday 20 June 2018

    Using Liquid on the Order Status Page

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    Using Liquid on the Order Status Page

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    An often overlooked part of the ecommerce experience is the order status page, which offers a unique opportunity to connect with customers. While there are some limitations to this page, with careful use of Liquid and JavaScript, it's possible to extend the page's functionality and display personalized content.

    In this article, you'll learn:

    • How Liquid can be added to the Additional scripts box
    • How to display content for particular products on the order status page
    • Why you should run scripts only once on the order status page

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    Tuesday 19 June 2018

    Facebook Marketing: Six Steps to Auditing Low Performing Facebook Ads

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    Facebook Marketing: Six Steps to Auditing Low Performing Facebook Ads

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    Facebook marketing is a hugely valuable tool for getting your client's message in front of their audience. But Facebook ads require strategy and attention to perform well—especially since Facebook has made major changes to the newsfeed this year.

    In this article, you'll learn:

    • Steps to audit low-performing Facebook ads
    • Examples of targeting strategies
    • How to strengthen your bid and placement strategy

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    Friday 15 June 2018

    Indexable PWAs: Making Progressive Web Apps Perform for Users and Search Engines

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    Indexable PWAs: Making Progressive Web Apps Perform for Users and Search Engines

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    Modern web technology has enabled us to build increasingly powerful websites, to such an extent that nowadays we tend to call them 'web apps'. But if you want to build web apps for clients that are indexable by search engines, there are some concerns you should be aware of.

    In this article, you'll learn:

    • How search engines crawl web apps
    • How to optimize your web app for crawling and indexing
    • Tools to ensure your web app is performing well for end users

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