Shopify for Beginners - The Complete Shopify Course

Claim a free three-day Shopify trial without a debit card, sign up, and explore the dashboard to start building a Shopify store.

Take a high level tour of the Shopify admin panel, login process, and the three day trial. Explore the online store storefront, products, customers, orders, analytics, marketing, discounts, and settings.

Add your first product in the Shopify admin by entering a title and description, uploading media, setting the price, and saving to publish a live product with a preview.

Explore Shopify themes overview, learning how themes define your store’s look and feel, install and publish free themes, and use the theme editor to customize and transform your site.

Explore how Shopify apps extend store functionality by using the Shopify App Store to install free or paid apps, such as review apps, and learn to evaluate apps before use.

Explore managing products and collections in Shopify, then set up a warehouse location by entering its address and name, and learn how shipping charges depend on that location.

Explore a detailed overview of a simple product in the Shopify editor, including title, description formatting, media, pricing, inventory, shipping, taxes, and SEO previews.

Learn to create variable products in Shopify by adding size and color options, assigning image assets to each variant, and managing pricing, stock, and weights with bulk edits.

Learn to add more dummy products in Shopify, including uploading images, setting variations and pricing, and preparing for collections in the next lecture.

Learn to create and manage manual and automated collections in Shopify, and add products to them via title or multi-select for navigation and the home page.

Edit the main and footer navigation menus to include product collections, drag items to create submenus, and save changes to reveal all collections in your Shopify store.

Learn how to add a gift card product to your Shopify store, define denominations from 10, 25, 50, 100, and beyond, and group them into a gift card collection.

Learn how to import and export products using csv files, manage inventory across locations, and handle transfers, commitments, and incoming stock in Shopify.

Learn why now is the time to choose a Shopify plan, and review building blocks like products, collections, inventory transfers, gift cards, and preparing your store to go live.

Choose a Shopify plan—basic, Shopify, or advanced—based on fees. Decide on a billing cycle and update your country settings, then add a payment method to start your store.

Remove the password protection to open your development store, then verify it live in incognito and plan branding with your own domain name.

Choose between buying a domain on Shopify or connecting an existing domain from Namecheap, then complete DNS setup and SSL verification to launch your branded store.

Edit store details to add your brand name, then save and refresh to update the title and storefront after domain setup.

Explore the Shopify settings section by correlating configurations with shipping, payments, taxes, and checkout. See how shipping rates affect cart and checkout, and enable two-step authentication in a test store.

Learn how payment gateways differ from banks, and how to set up Shopify payments, PayPal, and other providers to accept credit and debit card payments on your site.

Learn how to set up and customize shipping methods in Shopify, including domestic and international rates, zones, weight and order-price based pricing, and managing markets.

Learn to create custom shipping profiles for fragile items, set weight-based rates by domestic and rest-of-world zones, and manage processing time and local delivery options in Shopify.

Explore configuring Shopify markets, switching between primary and international markets, adding or excluding countries, and setting region-specific shipping, taxes, duties, payments, and currency-based pricing with 1.5% conversion fees.

Learn about sales tax and import taxes for Shopify, set up regional tax zones, and decide whether to include VAT in prices or at checkout; always consult a tax professional.

Learn to configure Shopify checkout settings, including design, customer information, shipping updates, tipping, order processing, marketing consent, and analytics scripts on the order status page.

Explore classic and new customer accounts in Shopify, learn login options, email verification, six-digit codes, and how customers view orders and manage addresses.

Walks you through placing a test order on Shopify, from adding a product to checkout, selecting bank deposit, and confirming order notifications and delivery updates.

Manage orders and customers in Shopify, view order details, mark payments and fulfill items, print packaging slips, archive completed orders, and monitor abandoned checkout.

Customize Shopify notification emails for customers and admins by editing order confirmations and other templates with HTML and Shopify Liquid, adjusting logos, accent colors, and content, with previews.

Create and customize store policies in Shopify, including refund, privacy, terms, and shipping policies, using templates and footer navigation to boost trust and SEO.

Explore the remaining Shopify settings, from store details and billing to staff permissions, gift cards, apple wallet passes, apps, domains, pixels, and languages.

Design the look and feel of your Shopify store, transforming it from an ugly site into a beautiful, more attractive storefront by focusing on pages, logo design, and color choices.

Learn to create a new page in Shopify, craft content with the built-in editor, publish and view it, and add the page to the main navigation.

Learn how to create a cohesive color palette for your website using two to three colors, color psychology, and practical guidance for logo, background, and button colors.

Learn two logo design paths: hire a designer under $10 or create your own with Canva and Shopify logo maker. Export with transparent backgrounds for Shopify.

In the Shopify admin, upload the new logo under branding, then save; crop with Photoshop or Photo Popcom, export PNG, and refresh the store to view.

Explore how Shopify themes are coded with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Liquid, and learn the theme editor and customizer limitations that shape design without full 100% customization.

Explore how the theme customizer in the dawn theme lets you edit the home page, products, collections, and pages using the navigator and inspector to modify text, images, and layout.

Design the Shopify top bar and header by configuring the announcement bar blocks, the global header, and logo, colors, and menus across all pages.

Choose and resize images for your Shopify site using free licensed images from Shopify and Unsplash, learn how to download, compress, and resize, and optimize for faster load times.

Design and configure the image banner as the hero section by selecting a cover image, adjusting opacity and height, aligning content, and configuring the heading, subtitle, and outline button.

Investigate how sections and blocks work in Shopify, from the theme customizer to the theme programming files, including the image banner, header, and footer, with blocks and settings.

Master footer design by managing sections and blocks, creating and customizing footer menus, adding collection links, adjusting spacing and colors, and enabling social icons and payment options.

Design a compelling Shopify home page by adding a featured collection and image-with-text sections, configuring desktop and mobile layouts, sliders, hover images, and call-to-action links to collections.

Design a Shopify store by selecting primary and secondary colors, applying accent and background schemes, and aligning header, products, spacing, and footer for visible text.

Learn how to add icons and logos to a Shopify store, create visually engaging sections with multi-column layouts, and customize icon colors using Font Awesome, image uploads, and color overlays.

Explore advanced design in Shopify by mastering the theme customizer, templates, and meta fields to craft consistent product and collection layouts and other pages beyond the home page.

Design and customize the default product layout across all products using the theme customizer, adjusting sections, layouts, and product information to create a consistent look and feel.

Design the default collection layout in Shopify by customizing the collection banner, show description and image, adjust color scheme, and configure the product grid—columns, image ratio, hover image, and filtering.

Explore cart and checkout page design in Shopify for beginners, customizing styling in the theme customizer, adding sections, logos, colors, fonts, and keeping checkout simple for a professional storefront.

Explore how templates act as design patterns in Shopify, applying a consistent look across products, collections, pages, and blogs while content varies by URL.

Create a leather based product template by copying the default boilerplate in the theme customizer, assign leather items to it, and preview with a section and image.

Learn how metafields power product pages by adding custom care instructions and other data through admin definitions, multi-line text fields, and dynamic sources on the product templates.

Learn to add metafields to products in the latest Shopify layout, define a name and description, choose the type, set validations, and display custom care instructions.

Learn to design fully custom Shopify pages by creating templates, assigning them to pages, and building layouts with sections, image banners, image with text, and Unsplash images.

Design and customize the customer accounts area in Shopify, editing login, activation, 404, and search pages with sections and blocks, and tune visuals like featured collections and colors.

Explore how blogs on Shopify drive organic sales by linking posts to your products, with examples like a Valentine’s Day gift guide and a step-by-step blog setup.

Create your first Shopify blog post by adding a title, rich content, headings, and product lists, then insert product images and links to drive purchases directly from your article.

Explore how theme settings apply globally across home, product, and collection pages, and learn to customize typography, layout, variant pills, product cards, and more.

Explore using and customizing themes in Shopify, install a new theme, preview without publishing, adjust colors, typography, and layout, and tailor product pages and sections for a polished store.

Explore how the Shopify App Store extends your store with free and paid apps, learn to install and evaluate apps for ROI, and track how third‑party providers may update pricing.

learn to add product reviews by installing the Shopify product reviews app, configure star ratings, and display reviews on product pages to boost trust and search engine optimization.

Explore the free Shopify Inbox app as a sales channel that lets customers chat on your website, boosting conversion with customizable placement, pre-chat forms, saved responses, and instant answers.

Learn how to connect your Shopify store to the Facebook and Instagram app to list products, sync updates and prices, and advertise directly on Facebook.

Learn how to implement swatches in Shopify using a free swatch plugin, configure color and image swatches, automate variant images, and control collection and product page behavior.

Explore how the Shopify search and discovery app enables filtering by availability, price, color, size, and type. Learn how to install and configure filters for better discovery in large catalogs.

Add cross-sell product recommendations in the search and discovery app, pairing items like leather jackets with jeans and Chelsea boots, then enable, preview, and save them in the theme customizer.

Learn to sell digital products on Shopify using the digital downloads app, including creating digital or service products, attaching files, and enabling automatic or manual downloads and fulfillments.

Manage Shopify apps by uninstalling unnecessary ones to protect store speed. Open Shopify admin, go to settings, apps and sales channel, then remove and confirm deletion of the app.