Linda - Multipurpose Shopify Theme

• Created: 20 March 2016
• Latest Update: 13 May 2016
• By: Buddha Themes
• Email: manager@iamdesigning.com

Thanks for purchasing our "Linda - Multipurpose Shopify Theme".Linda is a clean, pleasant, responsive theme for your shopify store that stands out of crowd.

This theme comes with more than six Demos , which includes Flex slider, Ajax filters , Deal section, Image switching based on options and Elevatezoom that will be spectaculous and gives a unique impresssion about your store. Menu comes with megamenu and simple dropdown with sub menu by which you can show all the categories and features available in your store. Its great for selling products of any kind.

If you need any assistance that are beyond the scope of this help file, kindly contact us through mail. Thank you so much!

• Responsive design: Looks great on desktops, laptops, tablets and mobiles. Give it a try on your iPhone or iPad now.
• Highly customizable: Change colors, fonts, background image through the theme settings. No coding required!
• Supports multi-currency: The currecies AUD,CAD,USD,GBP,JPY,EUR,NZD,INR,PHP are inbuilt with theme
• Product sorting on collection pages: Sort bys price, A to Z, newest etc.
• Great for SEO: Uses the latest Shopify SEO features and product data is formatted for schema.org so that product listings are optimized on search engines.
• Branded checkout: A seamless checkout for your customers using your logo and color scheme. You can also add a custom checkout header to your checkout screens!
• Customer accounts: Customers can register, login, change addresses and view past orders.
• Flexible slideshow: A home page slideshow that can be any height.
• Home page content: You can feature links to collections and products on your home page. Optionally include welcome text too.
• Newsletter integration: Easily link your Mailchimp account to the newsletter form.
• Social integration: Share by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest.
• Retina: "Retina" is Apple's term for a high pixel-density display—a screen packed with so many pixels you shouldn't be able to see the individual cells with your naked eye. It's more than just the resolution of the display; it's the pixels per inch (ppi).
• RTL: Web design for right-to-left languages.

• Getting up and running with Linda is quick and easy. Simply create a Shopify account, purchase the theme and upload it. You'll then have the opportunity to customize it to your liking before publishing it as your main theme.
• If that sounds like a lot, don't worry… each step is outlined in detail below and it's entirely possible to go from scratch to a store running Linda in under ten minutes!
• Creating a Shopify Account
• If you already have a Shopify account then you can skip ahead to the next section. If you're considering setting up a store but haven't done so yet, read on.
• Shopify is a hosted ecommerce solution that allows you to set up and run your own online store. Pick an ecommerce website template (preferably from us!), list your products, accept credit card orders, and ship your goods — all with a few clicks of the mouse. With Shopify it's easy to sell online and there's no software to download or maintain.

• Step 1 : At first, after purchasing this theme, please download the package from Themeforest. All you need to do that, is move your mouse over your login name in right top corner (of course after you`re logged in Themeforest) and then click Download. Here you will find all the items that you have purchased. It looks exactly just as the diagram next to.
• Step 2 : In the next step click the Download > Main File(s) button next to designthemes theme and save the package on your computer.
• Step 3 : In that package you can find things like documentation, license, zipped file with theme files and folder with theme files called Linda. Please unpack the whole package after downloading it from Themeforest.

What's Included

When you purchase our theme from ThemeForest, you need to download the Linda files from your ThemeForest account. Navigate to your downloads tab on ThemeForest and find Linda. Click the download button to see the two options. The Main Files contain everything, the Installable Shopify Theme is just the installable Shopify theme file. Below is a full list of everything that is included when you download the main files, along with a brief description of each item.

• Linda Theme Folder – Contains the Linda.zip Shopify theme.
• Extras Folder – Contains the documentation for Linda.

Theme Installation

Installing Linda is easy and quick.

If you had the Shopify site and now want to change with this theme for your site, follow the instruction below:

Note: Extract package downloaded, use file the Linda.zip to upload to your Shopify site

1. In your back office go to: Online Store > Themes:

• Click: Upload a theme

  

• Click on Choose File button and select Linda.zip file, then click: Upload

  

2. In your Backoffice Dashboard go to: Online Store > Themes > Scroll to respective demo:

• Click: Publish theme

  

• Click: Publish

  

As per shopify language translation supporting feature , we need to keying all the text based information at Language Editor section, so that we have loaded all the text based information on that. Kindly refer the followings screen shot to know about edit those information.

Just go to your store's theme section and confirm which theme is going to be the primary one(Published theme) , Then do the followings...

Global settings are options that will affect your entire site. This seems like a good place to start customizing your theme...

• The Primary Color option controls your main link text color, various interface colors, button colors, and more. It is well used throughout your site. The color you choose here should contrast with both a white background and the background color you choose for the outer site section.
• The Secondary Color is used for alternate button styles, some text and icon hover states, and other places.
• The Link/Button hover color is the color that will appear when you hover over most links and buttons.

 

Slider section contain configuration settings for every elements of slideshow.You can define following element in this section.

• Slide show/hide options
• Slide image
• Slide Link

If you need to extent the images for slider you can do it by replicate and paste the below code in settings.html

Just replace 1 with 4, 5, and so on... (Attached Screenshot indicates where to paste the code)

To create a new menu:

• Step 1: From your Shopify admin, click Online Store, then click Navigation
• Step 2: Select the Add menu button.
• Step 3: Give your navigation a title. A handle will automatically be generated from this title.
• Step 4: Add links to your menu.
• Step 5: Once you have added all of your links click Save.

Step 1: Choose Navigation and add the links under Main Menu that you wish to show in the store's navigation...

Step 3: Add submenus for Mainmenu(Eg:Collection)

Step 4: Then add next level of sub menus

Step 5: To add collection image in megamenu follow below the screenshot.

Step 6: Add collection image as given below screenshot.

Simple drop down menu

Home page options can be easily configurable via these settings.

About page contains follow these sections

• Image with content section: Here have options to enable/disable.And every title description and link can get from back end options.
• Team Section: This section contains team image,name,description and link.And also each team have individual social icons and have options to add , from them settings.
• Client logo section: This section contains client logo,name and link.Can edit images name link from theme settings.
• Intro Box: This section contains title,description,button with theme settings options.
• Mobile app section: It includes three parts.left and right side have icon with title and description.At the center have mobile image.

Collection page contains 3 options.

• sorting:Sort the products depends on low-price,high-price,best-products,new to old,old to new.
• View:Views the product in 2 way
  
  • grid view
  • List view
• Number of items on page:Display the product by selecting numbers

Collection sidebar contains categories,best seller and filters.In filters have added product color,size,brands

• Categories: First section of collection sidebar.To display categories create linklist and navigate linkilst from theme settings.Can add the title too
• Best Selling: To display this section create collection in the name of best selling or what you like to add.And choose the collection in theme settings which you creat collection the name of best selling.
• Filters: Color,size,label.To display colors in filters.
  
  • You should have add color for your product as variant.
    
  • And add the same variant name in colors linklist.Follow this same for size and brand.

In two way you can display the collection @/collections page.

• Can display every collection from your store.
• Can display the collection which you need to display(custom collection) To add custom collection create linklist to display particular collection.Then Choose that linklist from theme settings which you create linklist for custom collections.

Product detail page includes:

• Product zoom with lightbox.
• Product detail page includes availiability,product vendor,product type.Everything have to add in your product to display.
• And it provides product variants, Add to cart option,wishlist,product quantity,social sharing,related products.
• Product color variant displayed as color swatch box .
• Product thumb aligned in vertically.

If you enable product review , don't foreget to install Product Review app.



 
And have 2 options
 
• When disable linked options displays every related product options.
• Ex: when select the particular product color, appears every related products variant options


 
• When enable linked options it displays only particular product variant options.
• Ex:When select particular product color that prouct variant options only appear.


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Select Blog Posts in admin and hit -> Add blog post, which is available at top right corner to add new one.

• Blog page contains image tite,description,read more button.
• It includes sidebar with articles and categories.
• To display categories add tags in blog posts when you add blog.Ex:Leather clothes,cotton.

Contact page options can be easily configurable via these settings.

• Contact page contains map with options to enable/disable.
• It includes address with options to add from theme settings.

It includes 4 parts:

• Framed Accordion
• Standard Accordion
• Framed Toggle
• Standard Toggle

You can add Faq where ever need. All you need to do follow simple HTML Format.

This theme has the ability to display a currency selector at the top of your page.

• You can select which currencies to display and this allows your customers to see your products' prices in their home currency.
• How to change/add new currency E.g here we have shows smaple to add "Mexican pesos" PHP, The currecies AUD,CAD,USD,GBP,JPY,EUR,NZD,INR,PHP are already inbuilt with theme, you can add futher follow this below screen shots...

Footer includes 4 columns. Navigation links can be added using linked list method.

• Footes section includes footer logo,and description with options
• It includes social icons and payment icons.Can edit with theme settings.