Blog posts tagged with 'themes'

Having a great nopCommerce template can help attract more customers to your nopCommerce store. Pro nopCommerce provides high quality, hand-crafted nopCommerce themes for stores of various types. Here are a few things to consider when deciding on a template for your online business.

Products and target markets

A well-chosen theme can make your products resonate with your target audience, so it is important that you choose a theme suitable for your business. For example if you have a florist shop you might want to choose a brighter and more lively-looking theme than say a restaurant.

Integration with special features

Perhaps you want a video player on the home page of your store. Some themes will do a better job of highlighting key features than others. If you go to the trouble of creating video or having live sales representatives, you want to be sure that your theme works with those features.

Ease of use and user experience

A theme used for e-commerce should be as easy as possible for your customers to navigate and interact with. A frustrated customer or potential customer might turn to an easier-to-use online store thus hurting the bottom line of your company.

Mobile-friendliness

In today's busy world, many people shop online using a tablet or smartphone. Themes can appear differently on these devices so it is vital to check and make sure that your theme is equally optimized for mobile platforms as they are on desktop.

Second Opinion

With many different themes available, it can be wise to seek the opinion of a business associate or friend when deciding on a theme. And remember, basic theme customizations are always encouraged! You wouldn't want your online store to look exactly like other stores who has also purchased the same theme!

It has been a while since we last launched a new theme. We are extremely happy to launch NopMarket, our third premium nopCommerce theme that is suitable for marketplace, computer store, electronics store and home appliances store.

And to celebrate the successful launch, we are giving away 5 free copies of NopMarket. It's easy to participate:

There has been numerous questions posted on nopCommerce forums and StackOverflow about how to make nopCommerce plugins' Views text-editeable as CSHTML files. This is because the most widely known method of displaying Views in nopCommerce is to mark the .CSHTML files as Embedded Resource, which essentially makes the Views behave like binary files (such as DLLs), which in turn makes the Views uneditable in text editors. In fact, you can't even find the CSHTML files on the compiled plugins folder!

For example, the figure below is how a compiled nopCommerce plugin looks like. You notice that there's no .CSHTML that you can edit. Why is this a bad thing? Because if you are developing an nopCommerce plugin for your clients, that means there is no easy way they can edit how the plugin renders on their shop.

How can we go about solving this limitation? Read on to learn!