There has been a distinct audience shift towards mobile browsing. Responsive design has proven to be the simplest way to reach users across multiple devices by ensuring a seamless user experience.
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We Love Widgets and You Should Too!
Without a doubt, one of the biggest advantages of Spark Pay themes is the usefulness of widgets. Widgets allow for quick customization of your site by adding these where you need them. What used to take days of coding by a web developer, is now accomplished by anyone with a few simple clicks of a mouse. Our themes fully accommodate widgets and offer the flexibility that customers have come to expect.
Here are Just a Few of the Many Advantages that a Responsive Theme with Widgets Can Bring to Your Ecommerce Site
- The Rev Themes uses base styling touches on all the 50+ pages available for customization in the app.
- The menu widget supports complete customization and drop downs. This allows advanced drop down views for the menu based login, cart, and search areas.
- Multiple layouts for product page and category page.
- Quick view modal on homepage product listing, category page listings and write review.
- Additional control over individual page layouts
- Full customization of product page. Areas for product images, product thumbnails, product thumbnail sliders, and product description tabs.
- Customizable full cart preview in simple navigation menu drop down.
- Features a customizable one page checkout. The default layout is optimized, including sticky order summary box.
In this example of the Supply Co. theme, you can see a clean and minimal, centered design with a fully responsive layout.
To arrange elements and text, style sheet languages like CSS are used instead of HTML tables. This provides an optimized, cleaner view and less of a load time.
The important information is there with bolder text, slimmer descriptions and an easier viewing experience with a quicker navigation.
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Responsive Themes
The new responsive themes allow for more design, functionality and core flexibility. When building a site from a responsive framework, the content, images, and site structure respond to the width of the browser. This means that your site will look similar on all devices, yet changes to fit the new space the site contains. Responsive Design refers to the design approach of this functionality. It provides an optimal viewing experience based on the browsers' width. Its intended to provide a better navigation experience, while making it easier to read.
With a Responsive theme do I still need a mobile theme installed in Spark Pay online stores ?
Not necessarily unless you want to have a basic text-only and minimal theme.
Mobile theme (left) vs. Responsive theme (right) when viewed on a mobile device.
The checkout pages are now responsive as well and will scale to fit any device.
Spark Pay online stores now has dozens of free responsive ecommerce themes for you to choose from.
At the end of the 2013, Spark Pay online stores debuted the Rev Theme Engine. It features fully responsive themes built from the bootstrap framework. The first responsive theme released was the Base Theme, which quickly became the de facto starter theme for ecommerce sites.
Checkout the New Free Themes Now Added to the Theme Designer Dashboard
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Theme Store
Spark Pay online stores now have an open theme store. It features free and paid themes designed by theme creators.
A great theme is the backbone of any successful ecommerce store. A professional theme gives your shoppers the confidence and encouragement to shop with you. Spark Pay allowisanyone to customize the look and feel of their storefront without advance HTML or CSS knowledge. Store owners and designers can select from a variety of responsive themes to give their sites the look and feel that they want.
Making great sites has always been a major focus of Spark Pay! This is exactly what the theme store does, make great looking sites! You can start with a pre-built theme and customize it to meet your needs, or create a new theme from scratch. The level of customization can be as simple as changing logos and text. Or you can completely redesign the theme. It's up to you!
Take a look at all the new free and paid themes here.
Buy and Sell With the Spark Pay online stores Theme Store
Along with a great selection of free themes, Spark Pay now offers you the chance to buy premium themes. Built with Bootstrap, these fully responsive themes offer the flexibility for store owners and designers to achieve the level of professional design and functionality they desire.
The best part is the theme store is built directly into the theme editor. Log in to your Spark Pay store and navigate to the Themes Dashboard to purchase one of our new premium themes.
Profit For Creativity, What More Could You Want?
Theme designers rejoice! Spark Pay now has an open market that makes it easy for you to sell your responsive themes in the theme store. With over 5,000 active stores on the Spark Pay platform, there is no shortage of merchants looking for new themes. This provides a great place for theme designers to showcase and monetize their design skills.
Spark Pay online stores offers a great commision rate of up to 70% and provides you with the tools to get started today. You can even start by using our Base theme, so you don't have start from scratch each time.
Theme Creators Wanted, What Are You Waiting For? Click Here to Get Started
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More Useful Help:
Spark Pay online stores Help Articles on Theme & Site Design
Spark Pay online stores Community
Tips and Tricks With CSS on w3schools.com
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Note: Theme modification involves any change to the default values in the HTML or CSS of any theme or widget. Support can direct you to the correct page to make changes or to reset the widget, page HTML or CSS to its default value. This will undo any customization that may be in place. Before you create or modify a theme using HTML and CSS it is suggested to have a backup handy.
While theme modification is outside what support is allowed to assist with, if you need assistance with making modification to the theme, our implementation department is available to make these modification at an hour rate. If the service is ever needed please let us know and we will get that process started for you. Or check out our new Theme Store to find a theme that suits your needs.
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