DIY Online Store Design Without Difficulty: Utilizing Tools to Create Your Unique Brand Online Store
Online store design is a crucial aspect of starting an online business, as it effectively builds a brand image. An attractive and unique online store not only leaves a lasting impression on consumers but can also significantly increase their desire to purchase. Wondering how to excel in online store design? This time, let’s introduce everyone to ebixPRO’s powerful store design tool – the “Store Editor,” allowing everyone to DIY and design their own distinctively styled online store.
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1. What is the "eShop Editor"?
The “eShop Editor” is a store design tool developed by ebixPRO. After completing the free store registration on ebixPRO, you can start using the “Store Editor” in the store backend to perform various store designs.
2. Features of the eShop Editor
ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor” not only offers a variety of online store design templates (Templates) to choose from but also allows every part of each template to be freely combined, added, or deleted, letting you truly freely design your store and establish the ideal store appearance.
ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor” has over 50 components that can be freely added and modified.
Components Over 50 Items
In the “eShop Editor,” you can freely modify preset pages and parts, including the “Front Page,” “About Us,” “Header,” and “Footer,” among others. Different pages have different component options, and the entire “Store Editor” has over 50 components. Here we introduce three of them first.
1. Banner
Banners are the most commonly used elements in store design. In the “Store Editor,” you can upload any picture, photo, and video and set it as a banner. Besides the regular static banners, there are other types such as Slide Banners, which can upload up to 15 slides, suitable for stores with a variety of products to display. Additionally, Pop-up Banners are usually used for advertising, displaying the latest store promotions or news.
2. Floating Ads
Floating ads are ads that float continuously on the page and can be images or GIFs, and can include hyperlinks that take viewers to a specified page when clicked. The advantage of floating ads is that they allow the audience to continuously see specific messages, effectively increasing clicks. In fact, floating ads are quite rare on e-commerce platforms and generally require additional payment for the platform to provide, but on ebixPRO, free accounts can also add them in the design.
3. Social Media Links
An online store is a place to build a brand image and provide a purchasing channel, while social media allows audiences to keep up with the latest updates from the brand. Therefore, social media and online stores should be closely linked. ebixPRO allows you to easily link Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Wechat, without the need to add code like some other e-commerce platforms. Just paste the link URL in the social media column, and you can set up the link button in the store design, simple and convenient.
In addition to components, the “eShop Editor” has other features that are superior to other e-commerce platforms.
Various Product Arrangement Modes
Using ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor,” the arrangement of products can have different options, such as the list style that displays products one by one from top to bottom, the full-width style that maximizes product images, and the most common gallery style that displays several products per row. And in gallery style, you can choose the number of products per row (2/3/4/6). Different arrangement modes can create different visual impressions, meeting different design needs.
Gallery Style Product Arrangement.
Switchable Dark Interface
In recent years, the dark mode has been very popular, and many online stores and apps have launched dark interfaces, mainly in black and gray tones, making it more comfortable for viewers to read. In ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor,” if you want to switch the entire store design from a white theme to a dark theme, the method is also very simple, just one button can quickly switch between the two.
One button can switch between light mode and dark mode.
Over a Thousand Free Image Libraries
Many people who open online stores hope to complete the store design in the shortest time. Instead of spending time searching for suitable images online, why not select images from the image library in ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor”? Unlike other e-commerce platforms, ebixPRO’s “Store Editor” also has a huge image library, offering over a thousand free images for store owners to use freely. Store owners can also directly add text to the images using the “Store Editor,” quickly completing the design of banners and backgrounds.
Enter keywords to search for free images.
Over 50 Trendy Fonts
For users who focus on aesthetics, the importance of store fonts is no less than that of images, but general e-commerce platforms only have a few font options, which may not perfectly match the store design. In response, ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor” offers over 50 trendy fonts. Whether you want traditional, elegant, noble, or modern, simple, sleek fonts, ebixPRO can meet your needs.
Generally, it is recommended that store owners use 1 to 2 fonts in the store to maintain overall consistency and ease of reading for the audience. And store owners can select different font sizes to create visual hierarchy, distinguishing different content, and guiding the audience’s eyes.
Supports GIF and MP4 Formats
Static images are no longer enough to stand out in today’s store trends, and you can try adding GIF or MP4 format videos in the store design to greatly increase the attractiveness of the store. ebixPRO’s “eSop Editor” supports GIF and MP4 formats, allowing you to add GIFs in floating ads to make the ads more eye-catching, and you can also add short videos on the page, such as product promotional videos, making the content richer and more interesting.
Equipped with an HTML Editor
If images or videos still cannot meet your needs, don’t worry, ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor” also has an HTML Editor, allowing you or professional web programmers to change the store design using HTML, add forms or tables, or even combine third-party resources, applying the content to your own store, such as adding 3D real object images.
Web and Mobile Version One-Click Synchronization
Currently, online stores are popular for having both web and mobile versions, allowing customers to browse and shop anytime, anywhere. On ebixPRO’s “eShop Editor,” just one button can synchronize the web version to the mobile version, the “eShop Editor” will help you automatically arrange the best interface, and you can also use the “Store Editor” to modify the mobile version, making the design match what you want.
After synchronization, you can see the design of the mobile version and make modifications.
Allowing store owners to truly freely express themselves, designing various stores that exude brand charm, is the starting point of ebixpro’s “eShop Editor.” Store owners on ebixPRO can freely combine store design elements without template restrictions, and use comprehensive and trendy store design features, and most importantly, these are all free on ebixPRO! Don’t hesitate, open a free account now, and create your own brand store!
Author: ebixPRO Team
Date: May 23, 2022