Custom HTML, new theme, new admin and more! Whoa.
by Matt on May 4th, 2008
Yowza, we’ve been busy! Today we’re happy to announce some big improvements to Big Cartel. We’ve made a ton of tweaks and upgrades, but here are a few we’re really excited about:
Better Customization
You can do a lot with CSS, but now we’ve opened up a world of possibilities with the addition of pages. Now you can customize the HTML of your store’s pages and even add new ones for things like About Us, Return Policy, Sizing Charts, whatever you’d like.
And if that wasn’t enough, you can now choose how many products to show per page, display shipping and tax amounts to your customers, upload product images of any size, and more.
New Theme
To show off a bit of what our new features can do, we’ve built a brand new theme for Platinum and Diamond plans called Blocks. Blocks uses our new HTML and JavaScript APIs to create a really smooth shop.
New Admin
To tie all of this together, we did a major overhaul on your store admin. You’ll notice all sorts of little gems as you check the dashboard, manage your products, and customize your store.
Help Section
We’ll be blogging about many of these new features in the coming days, but for now our new help section should whet your appetite.
xjeremeyx said on May 4th, 2008 at 3:18 am...
NEW UPGRADES = AWESOME!
LOVE THE NEW ADMIN AND SITE PAGES
:)
<3 U BIGCARTEL!
Danni said on May 4th, 2008 at 3:43 am...
Fab updates…loving the new theme pages and everything looks soooo much more stylish! the extras in the dashboard are ACE. Well done! Going to go customise right now!
TOy said on May 4th, 2008 at 4:34 am...
WONDERFULLLLL !!!
Adam said on May 4th, 2008 at 5:56 am...
love em.
Harry said on May 4th, 2008 at 6:05 am...
AWESOME !!!
Joe said on May 4th, 2008 at 9:16 am...
Ace!
DIRTY ADDICTION said on May 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pm...
definitely loving the new layout
Paco said on May 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pm...
Nice…
Burn Suburbia said on May 4th, 2008 at 2:18 pm...
Ooooh so pretty! Great updates too…playing with them already. Thank you.
mare said on May 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm...
It looks maaaaaaarvelous!
Very exciting!
Can’t wait to start changing some stuff up.
Matt said on May 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm...
Thanks everyone! We can’t wait to see what you can do with these new features.
ryan said on May 5th, 2008 at 1:20 am...
ok ok… kudos
lastactioncowboy.bigcartel.com
ab5trak said on May 5th, 2008 at 8:12 am...
is there a link where i can see this theme live??
Matt said on May 5th, 2008 at 8:43 am...
Here’s one: http://heartcore.bigcartel.com
Also, there’s a thread over in the forum for anyone to post who is using it: http://forum.bigcartel.com/discussion/627/new-blocks-theme/
Harry said on May 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am...
ITS AWESOME NOW!!!
one question…add in the status “new” and “last pressing”…bad idea? :)
Matt said on May 6th, 2008 at 11:57 am...
Thanks Harry! “New” and “Last pressing” probably work best in the product description or even as a category.
Harry said on May 6th, 2008 at 2:23 pm...
cool! thanks mate and very good work…bigcartel is the best online store now online! ;)
unearthed said on May 9th, 2008 at 4:04 am...
I can’t see my Admin links for some reason???
I log on and i can see my sales and sold out products etc, but not the dashboard at the top??.
Matt said on May 9th, 2008 at 8:13 am...
Please don’t use blog comments for support issues. If you can contact us with your store info we’ll figure out what’s up.
Fubiz said on May 13th, 2008 at 4:33 pm...
Beautiful template !!
Arni said on May 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 am...
Hi,
Could you advice me, I want to run my own online store, t-shirt store, but one big question, where in London, UK, I can produce my own T-Shirts? Maybe you know some approved T-shirt printing companies?
Regards, Arni.
Matt said on May 22nd, 2008 at 8:02 am...
Arni, you may want to check Emptees for some advice.
Sell More Art Online said on June 1st, 2008 at 12:55 am...
Awesome update to an excellent system. By the way I interviewed Ben the Illustrator about his Big Cartel store here… http://sellmoreartonline.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/selling-art-on-big-cartel/