Color Overload Likes Big Cartel

Gino over at Color Overload recently setup a Big Cartel store and had this to say:

I was extremely pleased with how easy and professional the program is. It only took me a matter of minutes to set up a fully functional online store for my friends new clothing company!

He also posted a list of 10 Bad Ass Big Cartel Clothing Stores, and wants to know your favorites.

Selling art on Big Cartel

Selling art on Big Cartel

Sell more art online has a great interview with Ben the Illustrator about using Big Cartel to sell art online.

Custom HTML, new theme, new admin and more! Whoa.

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.

3 important tips for your store!

In case you missed them before, here are 3 tips you need to know:

E-commerce Guide Interview

I was recently interviewed by e-commerceguide.com, check it out! I sound a bit nerdy, but luckily Secret Penguin had my back.

Featured Store: Carraway Clothing

Carraway Clothing

Sometimes we could all use a little help. View Store »

Big Cartel turns 2 and hits 10k stores

Today is Big Cartel’s second birthday! It’s been a wonderful and rewarding two years for me and Eric, and we’d like to sincerely thank all of you for that.

Also, by some freaky coincidence, this morning we opened our 10,000th store. WTF?! It took us 18 months to hit 5000 stores and less than 6 months to double that.

Big Cartel FTW!

New Feature: Inventory Bars

Inventory Bars

How cool would it be to show your customers a real-time chart of your product’s inventory? Well now you can! Find out how it works »

Big Cartel on MySpace

Big Cartel on MySpace

Well it finally happened, we put Big Cartel on MySpace. We’re a bit lonely at the moment, so let’s get some friendships started! Oh yeah, join the Big Cartel Stores Group too.

New Feature: Link back to your site

Many of you have asked us how you can put a link back to your website in your store. Well we’ve just made it really easy! Find out how »