I love it when I pop onto the Shopify theme store and discover new themes. All our Shopify clients know we use Shopify themes as the basis for your website development. Using a theme helps us to speed up development and reuse great coding by the theme developers. It is great to see that the theme developer are adopting some of the winning design trends from 2014. There is now parallax sliding, scroll vs click homepage layouts, the use of big fonts and full screen images. For more information on the web design trends for 2015, read our recent article.
Here is a showcase of the new themes launched this year.
Showtime
Key Features:
Clear layout
Subtle animation if you like movement on your site
Lots of promotional spaces for communicating key messages
Well designed drop down menu
Product video support
Focal
Key Features
Nice homepage layout to lots of opportunities to communicate key messages
Good footer
Allows for amazing photography to be showcased
Fresh and clean product page layout
Built in foreign currency
Highly customisable homepage
Icon
Key Features
Sticky top menu
Interesting page movement as you scroll
Great collection slider with featured image added
Some parrallax sliding
Instragram widget added
Quick Filter and sort by already added
Perfect for a fashion website
Parrallax
Key Features
Sticky menu as you scroll
Great full screen images in parallax scrolling added throughout the homepage
Allows for great use of typography
Great Product page layout - makes use of high quality product images
Responds well in the mobile - keeping the design aesthetic
Pacific
Key Features
Responsive
Menu with images and multiple levels of navigation
4 presets
Instagram widget built in
FX already added
Large main slider images
Multiple promotional box configurations
Visit the Shopify Theme store now. If you need any help selection a theme don't hesitate to contact us. We have help you select the theme that will give you the best opportunity to stand out from your competitors and make a lasting impression on your customers.