BigCommerce – Setting up your online shop – Part 2 – Changing the look and feel of your BigCommerce Online Shop

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BigCommerce – Setting up your online shop – Part 2 is all about changing the look and feel of your online shop.

If you have not registered your Online Shop with BigCommerce, please do so now.

If you would like more information on setting up your online store visit the BigCommerse – Setting up your online shop – Part 1 article.

When you access your admin panel of your Bigcommerce Online Shop you will land on the ‘hub’ of your site.  From there you can make the necessary changes.

If you have completed all the steps in Part one, you can click on “Choose a store design and optionally a logo.”

You will be redirected to this screen.

Choose a template of your liking and click on “Apply this template”

You will have to answer some questions.  Take special note of this.  We will have a discussion about ftp and custom templates at a later stage.  Alternatively, if you need a template custom made for you, you can get a freelancer to do it for you by visiting Freelance Express.

After you have confirmed their terms and conditions, you must click on “apply”

You will receive a message that the template has been applied.

Right Click on ‘Preview Site’ to see the changes you have made.

You will notice that there are products loaded into your store.  Do not delete them at this stage, as they will give you a good indication on how to add products to your store.

Lets move on to the logo creation.

For this exercise I am not going to fiddle with a new logo.  I am going to use the automated option by clicking on the “Create a new logo image for my store based on my store design” link.

You can play around a bit or upload your own logo.

After you have finished this step, the changes you’ve made, can by seen by clicking on ‘View Site’

Now comes the really fun part of customizing your BigCommerce online shop!

In your admin page, click on “Design Mode” and then on “Open my site in design mode”

Here you can move the blocks around to suit what you would like.

The next tab you should look at is the ‘mobile’ tab.  It is very important that you activate this.  This makes it possible that your clients can access your BigCommerce Online Shop via their smartphones.  There aren’t any step by step information for that.  You can just confirm that you want this feature.

The next tab is the ‘email’ tab.  These emails are emails that are automatically sent to your customers.  You can click on ‘edit’ for each one of them and change the wording to what you’d like.  But usually the defaults are more than adequate.

On the header tab, you will be able to change the header image of your BigCommerce Online store.  Make sure that your new image is the exact same size as the one shown under the tab.

The last tab is the template files.  If you do not know what you are doing, please DO NOT change anything there!

Now you have all the basics set up for your BigCommerce online store.  Next we will look at creating payment gateways.

When you have these ready, you can go on to creating your products on your BigCommerce Online Shop.