WHY SWITCH TO SHOPIFY 2.0?

Online Store 2.0 opens various doors for e-commerce developers to build themes and apps for Shopify merchants.
Shopify 2.0 has rebuilt the online store experience from the base level,and are bringing a new set of website development tools to help the website designers.This creates amazing experiences for all the merchants and shoppers.

1. Customised theme structure

There has been an upgrade in the theme architecture for the online store, providing easier and more flexible customization options for merchants. There are also new opportunities for development companies to build themes and integrations that can be easily customized by the merchant to fit their needs.Earlier merchants had limited access to represent their business on shopify as limited to home page but now they can add sections to all pages and can control the personalise aspect to it.With upgraded version one can now integrate apps to the storefront and allowing you to extend apps into merchants’ themes via app blocks.Developers can build the UI components that can now be added, removed, and configured directly through the theme editor without altering any theme’s code.This results as the uninstalls are more cleaner as ghost code automatically removed.

2) Flexibility towards metafields

Now developers of various website design agencies can be relaxed as no hardcore metafield work into themes is required as all the developers can now use dynamic sources to insert standard metafields and known resource properties as setting defaults.Metafields have been revamped in three ways as some standard metafields are configured, more flexible system & adding presentation hints to decrease the custom code.Metafields are supportive to Pdf files now.

3) Hustle free Updates for theme editor

All images are accessible for instant use.Apps can avail benefit of access to the media area of the admin,including populated media metafields with various content.The advancement has reduced the hussle work of the merchants as sidebar has been introduced which will make it easy to update the hierarchy to the page. The update to the theme editor is a new Liquid input setting that will give access to all merchants to add custom Liquid code to pages directly from the editor. The Liquid setting is a form of HTML setting type only, meaning merchants will be able to access global-and template-specific Liquid objects. This advancement will reduce the need for merchants to manually change the code of a theme, particularly when adding code for apps that use Liquid.

4)Website Developers advanced tools to give better control

Shopify Github is introduced as an addition that offers more robust theme development with version control, a better-sandboxed environment to develop themes locally, and streamlined development. It helps the developers to do development and seek maintenance easier to track and manage. It can also now to theme check on the various themes.

5)Default theme introduced to keep all ties altogether

Dawn is Shopify’s first source-available reference theme with OS 2.0 flexibility and a focus on speed. It’s designed to maximize flexibility while minimizing complexity, which means balancing being opinionated with our design with allowing merchants the space to make changes that they deemed fit for their business.

Developers will be able to submit your new themes for review, and approved themes will begin being published.Shopify theme store has also reopened to buy your choice of theme and give that personalized touch.With more than 1.7 million merchants using Shopify switch to shopify 2.0 to run their businesses, now is the time to build themes for these global entrepreneurs for a strong ecommerce development.

Digital impressions as a website development company has also shifted its website development Platform to shopify 2.0 for some of our clients. We have got some amazing results and feedback after utilising the advanced features of shopify 2.0. Our very 1st client for which we developed the e-commerce site on shopify 2.0 was One Friday World, Dawan Theme was utilized for the wireframe of the website. Impulse Theme is used for another famous client Swiss beauty Web development.