Theme Building Overview & Step-by-step Instructions
Get a complete understanding of theme building with our overview of the dashboard, templates, and settings. Learn key features and how to create a custom design for your Shopify store.
⚠️Heads up: The theme building function only works for themes built by Veda Builder. If you're activating a third-party Shopify theme & using Veda to build pages, please go to the Page area for customization. Read more in this guide.
💡 Tip: If you activate a Veda theme named Liberty and you want to customize Liberty, you can continue reading this article.
💡 Tip: If you activate Liberty and you want to replace a specific Liberty's page with another page, you can read this guide.
💡 Tip: If you activate Liberty and you want to add a new landing page to Liberty, you can read this guide.
Live Preview: You can see the live preview of your current theme. If you use Veda theme, you can customize it right here. But, in case of third-party Shopify theme, you need to go back to Shopify dashboard to edit it.
Draft Themes: Draft themes mean themes you installed from Veda’s theme library. You can customize, publish, preview, and delete whichever you want.
Explore our collection of stunning theme templates and choose the one that best fits your needs. The installed theme will be displayed in the Draft Themes section.
Select theme settings to customize your store and make it stand out from the competition.
Preloader
Layout
Custom colors for theme
Custom fonts
Global CSS
Global Javascript
Global translation
Vendors: Add external CSS & Javascript for theme by URL
Building a custom Shopify theme has never been easier! Follow these simple steps to get started:
Go to the Theme templates section and select a theme to install. Once installed, your theme will be listed under the Draft theme.
Click the customize button besides the theme.
Access the live editor to make changes to your theme in real-time.
When you're done customizing, you can publish the page or save it as draft.
Read this article to know how to customize the page in the live preview edtior easily.
Wait a few minutes for Veda to update your changes to your Shopify store.
If you didn't save or publish the current page before going to another page, you'd see this reminder popup.
With these easy steps, you'll be able to customize your Shopify store to match your unique brand and style. Start building your theme today!
⚠️ Heads up: The theme building function only works for themes built by Veda Builder. If you're activating a third-party Shopify theme & using Veda to build pages, please go to the Page area for customization. To illustrate, my current theme is Dawn, I have to go to the Page area to customize homepages. Kindly read more in this guide.
Written by Veda Builder - Next-Generation Shopify Page Builder Team.
⚠️Heads up: The theme building function only works for themes built by Veda Builder. If you're activating a third-party Shopify theme & using Veda to build pages, please go to the Page area for customization. Read more in this guide.
💡 Tip: If you activate a Veda theme named Liberty and you want to customize Liberty, you can continue reading this article.
💡 Tip: If you activate Liberty and you want to replace a specific Liberty's page with another page, you can read this guide.
💡 Tip: If you activate Liberty and you want to add a new landing page to Liberty, you can read this guide.
Dashboard
Live Preview: You can see the live preview of your current theme. If you use Veda theme, you can customize it right here. But, in case of third-party Shopify theme, you need to go back to Shopify dashboard to edit it.
Draft Themes: Draft themes mean themes you installed from Veda’s theme library. You can customize, publish, preview, and delete whichever you want.
Templates
Explore our collection of stunning theme templates and choose the one that best fits your needs. The installed theme will be displayed in the Draft Themes section.
Theme Settings
Select theme settings to customize your store and make it stand out from the competition.
Preloader
Layout
Custom colors for theme
Custom fonts
Global CSS
Global Javascript
Global translation
Vendors: Add external CSS & Javascript for theme by URL
Theme Building Step-by-step Instructions
Building a custom Shopify theme has never been easier! Follow these simple steps to get started:
Go to the Theme templates section and select a theme to install. Once installed, your theme will be listed under the Draft theme.
Click the customize button besides the theme.
Access the live editor to make changes to your theme in real-time.
When you're done customizing, you can publish the page or save it as draft.
Read this article to know how to customize the page in the live preview edtior easily.
Wait a few minutes for Veda to update your changes to your Shopify store.
If you didn't save or publish the current page before going to another page, you'd see this reminder popup.
With these easy steps, you'll be able to customize your Shopify store to match your unique brand and style. Start building your theme today!
⚠️ Heads up: The theme building function only works for themes built by Veda Builder. If you're activating a third-party Shopify theme & using Veda to build pages, please go to the Page area for customization. To illustrate, my current theme is Dawn, I have to go to the Page area to customize homepages. Kindly read more in this guide.
Written by Veda Builder - Next-Generation Shopify Page Builder Team.
Updated on: 02/04/2023
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