RudeDudeCandles.com Shopify Design/Development August 31, 2020at 23:43 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After Dark Grafx announces the launch of RudeDudeCandles.com – BAD NEVER SMELLED SOOO GOOD! – Thank you for choosing After Dark Grafx to design and develop your new Shopify website. RudeDudeCandle Co. is owned and operated by Cali Cosmetics, Inc. an international brand. After doing such an excellent job on one of their brand websites, Tarocco-Baronesscali.com . Rude Dude contacted After Dark Grafx once again to create their “Rude Dude” website. They performed an an extensive search for a Shopify Expert who understood their brands and competencies. They enlisted After Dark Grafx to design and develop a brand new Shopify E-Commerce Website for their new business with many more to come. “We have been selling candles for years and this just seemed like a good addition to our product line. After Dark Grafx has created several Shopify E-Commerce Websites for us in the past so this was a no brainer. They made it easy for us. 500 Stars!!!” – Owner – Eric J. Visit them today at: https://www.rudedudecandles.com and tell them James from After Dark Grafx sent you! Need a Shopify Website? WooCommerce Website? E Commerce Store? App Developed? SEO Services? Contact us today! FREE QUOTE!
Germ-Bot.com – Shopify Development August 01, 2020at 01:06 am By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After Dark Grafx announces the launch of Germ-Bot.com – Thank you for choosing After Dark Grafx to design and develop your new Shopify website. GermBot (germ-bot.com) is owned and operated by California Precision Products, Inc. and Election Works, Inc. They contacted After Dark Grafx after an extensive search for a company who understood their product and vision and could just take it over to provide a professional result. They enlisted After Dark Grafx to design and develop a brand new Shopify E-Commerce Website for their new business. GermBot was created out of the recent need for an all-inclusive hygiene station in the Polling Places during the Voting Process.. GermBot offers a portable sanitizing solution for offices large and small, excellent for events and gatherings and can be easily moved from room to room. It is 60lbs and only takes up 16″ by 64.5″ of available space so it can be placed in a corner or in tight spaces. Founded in 2020 by Sandy Hed of Election Works, Inc, and Joe Bean of California Precision Products, Inc., GermBot is ADA Compliant, includes a battery operated hands free gel dispenser, areas for customer supplied standard disinfectant wipes, multifold paper towel dispenser, 5.5″ X 8.5″ placard / tablet device mount, storage compartment and a 7 gallon trash can. GermBot offers discounts to wholesale suppliers for large orders. If you are interested in becoming a GermBot wholesaler, please contact them. “We are so busy, we just needed someone to take on the project with little to no guidance. James and his team delivered! They created our logo, then stickers for the sides of the GermBot as well as packaging. We then had them create the Shopify E-Commerce Website. They sent us tutorials and were able to explain what we needed in the simplest terms. We appreciated that. We are now having James and his team perform Search Engine Optimization Services. They made it easy for us. Thank you, 10 Stars!!!” – Owners, Germ-Bot.com Visit them today at: https:www.germ-bot.com and tell them James from After Dark Grafx sent you! Need a New Shopify Website? E Commerce Store? App Developed? SEO Services? Contact us today! FREE QUOTE!
ParkWestLiquors.com – Shopify Development June 19, 2020at 00:40 am By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After Dark Grafx announces the launch of ParkWestLiquors.com – Thank you for choosing After Dark Grafx to develop your new Shopify website. Park West Liquors contacted After Dark Grafx to design and develop a brand new Shopify E-Commerce Website for their business. Park West Liquors also needed a new logo. They again turned to After Dark Grafx to design a logo that matched their business brand. Needless to say, After Dark Grafx hit the nail on the head once again. “We were happy to provide our over 28 years of website, graphic design and eCommerce development experience to help ParkWestLiquors.com realize its’ full potential. We upgraded their payment gateways, utilized updated apps, added security enhancements, increased their page speed and mobile optimization and how they are represented on all of the latest media devices. The new design and integrations will help to increase traffic and build their network of loyal customers.” – James Byrne – Owner, USMC VET – After Dark Grafx Visit them today at: https://www.parkwestliquors.com and tell them James from After Dark Grafx sent you! Need a New Shopify Website? E Commerce Store? App Developed? SEO Services? Contact us today! FREE QUOTE!
How To Fix Shopify Photo Alignment and Photo Sizing June 12, 2020at 23:18 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx How To Fix Product Sizes in Shopify Are your products misaligned in Shopify? This is typically due to your product images being different sizes, cropped differently, etc. Images downloaded from the web are usually the biggest culprits. It is always best to photograph your own images for your eCommerce store so that all of your product images are the same width and height. The easiest way to fix the issue of image alignment on collection and home pages is to always upload all of your product photos at the exact same size. This involves adding extra space around product photos. Here is a FREE way to solve this problem. a) Watch This Video below or via this link: https://youtu.be/Na3Jp0OExH8 b) Go to: https://www.photopea.com – (you can also use photoshop, affinity, gimp or other image software but this online version is just like photoshop and it’s FREE) c) Find an image that you would like to use for your website d) In the Photo editor from B above, Create a NEW FILE and make the image size of that file 800px width by 800px tall. Some people like to make the images larger at 1200px by 1200px or larger, so for the instruction of this post, we will use 800×800 e) Fill the background color with white or the color you would like to use for the background of your images OR leave it transparent. ie: if leaving transparent, you should export your files as PNG files instead of JPGs as below to maintain the transparency f) Open up the image you would like to use for your product in the editor. You now have the editor with the 800×800 px file and the product image you just uploaded. g) Select the product image and select ALL then copy the image h) Go back to the 800×800 file and PASTE this image. It will be larger or smaller depending on image selected. Select Transition or Scale the product image to fit on the 800×800 file. I will usually add a guideline towards the bottom of the file a few pixels above the bottom so that all of my product images will all have the same BASELINE. This is good if you have multiple products shown on your COLLECTIONS or CATEGORY pages, and will fix the alignment so they are all in a row. i) Once you have the image centered on the 800×800 file. Select FILE — EXPORT or SAVE AS JPG – if you want a transparent background – save as PNG file. j) One last step is to optimize this image so it loads quickly. Head over to tinyjpg.com or tinypng.com (free) and upload your image(s). Then download the optimized files. k) Upload a few product images that will next to each other in category. If you did this correctly, all of your images should look the same height and width and be in a row and look awesome! That’s It! James Byrne is an Information Architect, USMC VET and the owner of After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx – Since 1992 “We Work After Dark, So You Don’t Have To!” Home
Klaviyo Email Marketing and SMS Platform April 30, 2020at 21:44 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Email Marketing Software For Any Size Business Klaviyo is an easy-to-use, centralized and cloud-based marketing system that allows eCommerce marketers to effectively and efficiently target, personalize, monitor and optimize their marketing campaigns, including email and Facebook campaigns. If you have used MailChimp, Constant Contact, Vertical Response or any other platform, you will be familiar with Klaviyo. After Dark Grafx is now a certified Klaviyo partner and is offering one free hour of Klaviyo Integration consulting for your Shopify website. Klaviyo seamlessly integrates into the larger eCommerce Systems to include but not limited to; Shopify , Shopify Plus, Big Commerce, WooCommerce, Magento and more. Enterprise ecommerce marketing isn’t just for the enterprise anymore Most ecommerce marketing software forces you to choose between being as effective as possible or moving fast. Klaviyo is different. Designed for growth-minded ecommerce merchants, Klaviyo gives you powerful functionality without sacrificing the time it takes for your marketing to make an impact on your bottom line. See all Klaviyo features on their website here: Klaviyo. Fast integrations that still pull in rich customer data Klaviyo is built from the ground up to pull in data and make it actionable. Our deep integrations with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce and Magento are easy to combine with data from other marketing tools to form a single cohesive view of any contact. Using your own homegrown system? No worries – their API will get you started. See integrations You can see full features on their website as well as pricing as they price it per email size. If you have more questions, please fee free to Contact Us If you are looking for: How To Install Klaviyo on Shopify Contact Us!.
Tarocco Baronessa Cali – Shopify Development & Design March 13, 2020at 01:23 am By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx announces the launch of https://www.tarocco-baronessacali.com/ After Dark Grafx Shopify Web Design services along with our Shopify Development services, enabled Tarocco Baronessa Cali a Cali Cosmetics, Inc. brand to quickly launch their Shopify Store. Tarocco Baronessa Cali initially contacted After Dark Grafx to provide Shopify Consulting Services. After Dark Grafx was then retained to perform the Shopify Design, Development, App Installation and configuration. “After Dark Grafx offered a simple, no nonsense approach to a custom website and design. The site focuses on product sales and conversion for one brand in our product offering. They setup and integrated Facebook Shop, Instagram Shopping, Shopify payments, shipping and inventory management and offered Custom Shopify Development and coding solution to optimize our product pages. They then created several sub brand websites for our company. We will continue to use After Dark Grafx as our eCommerce Partner. They are currently working on Google Ads and Facebook Ads for our company. Excellent job! Excellent Service!” – Eric – Owner The Shopify Platform is a robust eCommerce platform with a low barrier to entry along with a “simple to use and understand” interface, this platform allows for businesses large and small to offer and manage a professional eCommerce website without a lot of training. Easily track inventory, hook into your financial booking and shipping systems and easily manage and process orders make Shopify the “GO TO” eCommerce solution for you. If you need Expert Shopify Help or just have a simple Shopify Question, please feel free to contact us even if you are not doing business with us. We also offer affordable, targeted Search Engine Optimization Services that are customized for your industry.
Air Cooled Vintage Works – Shopify Design & Development November 05, 2019at 21:24 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx announces the launch of AirCooledVintageWorks.com After Dark Grafx Shopify Web Design services along with our Shopify Development services, enabled Air Cooled Vintage Works to quickly launch their Shopify Store. AirCooledVintageWorks.com initially contacted After Dark Grafx to provide Shopify Consulting Services. After Dark Grafx was then retained to perform the Shopify Design, Development and App Installation and configuration. “After Dark Grafx offered a custom website development and design to focus on product sales and conversion. They setup and integrated Facebook Shop, Instagram Shopping, Shopify payments, shipping and inventory management and offered Custom Shopify Development and coding solution to optimize our product pages. They held our hand through the process, always just a quick email or call away. They created How To Videos so we understood how to update certain sections of the website and just made it an excellent experience.” – Jason – Owner The Shopify Platform is a robust eCommerce platform with a low barrier to entry along with a “simple to use and understand” interface, this platform allows for businesses large and small to offer and manage a professional eCommerce website without a lot of training. Easily track inventory, hook into your financial booking and shipping systems and easily manage and process orders make Shopify the “GO TO” eCommerce solution for you. If you need Expert Shopify Help or just have a simple Shopify Question, please feel free to contact us even if you are not doing business with us.
Migrate Miva to Shopify October 24, 2019at 18:57 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Thinking of Migrating Miva to Shopify? There are many things to consider when migrating or moving your website from Miva Merchant to Shopify. Before you begin this process, it is best to contact After Dark Grafx via Chat (bottom right of this website), via our Contact Form – click here or via Phone Toll Free (888) 578-8300 or if in San Diego (619) 702-7377. This will save you in both time and money and the 30 minute consultation is FREE! TAKE AN INVENTORY OF YOUR MIVA STORE: You will want to take an inventory of what functionality is currently in place within Miva and see if this same type of functionality is available within Shopify. In some cases, you can change or alter the the functionality to best suit your needs but in some cases, you will either need to add a paid or free app from the Shopify App Store or contact a developer (like After Dark Grafx wink! wink!). To perform the upgrade or add advanced custom coding that Shopify or the theme that you choose does not offer. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT SHOPIFY BEFORE MOVING (PROS, CONS, LIMITATIONS & BENEFITS) VIEW EXISTING SHOPIFY THEMES VIEW EXISTING APPS CONTACT A SHOPIFY DEVELOPER (We are Shopify Experts) USING A THIRD PARTY MIGRATION SERVICE PROS & CONS EXPORTING AND IMPORTING DATA INTEGRATING DESIGN CHANGES CODE FUNCTIONALITY CHANGES INSTALLING FREE AND PAID APPS SETTING UP THIRD PARTY SHIPPING AND THE COSTS INVOLVED SETTING UP PAYMENT GATEWAYS AND THE COSTS POINTING YOUR DOMAIN NAME LAUNCHING YOUR NEW STORE UPDATING THE SITE MAP WITH GOOGLE USING REDIRECTS SO YOU DO NOT LOSE “*SEO JUICE” This is just a basic list of what needs to be done before, during and after a migration from Miva Merchant Shopping Cart to the Shopify Platform. You can Sign Up for a 14 Day Free Trial with Shopify – Click Here! Contact us today click here for a FREE, 30 MINUTE, NO OBLIGATION consultation. Toll Free (888) 578-8300 Local: (619) 702-7377 Shopify’s post about Migrating to Shopify Click Here After Dark Tip: Make a Backup of your entire site and database before starting or making any changes or migrations. *SEO JUICE = Your current SEO standings or what links you currently have within the search engines.
Your Facebook account doesn’t have admin access to the chosen page – What Do You Do? September 12, 2019at 17:04 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Have any of the following happened to you? – Shopify sends you a message that your Facebook Sales Channel has been disconnected? – You try to connect or reconnect your Facebook Sales Channel within Shopify and receive the following message even though you are an Admin on the Facebook Page and get the following message? Your Facebook account doesn’t have admin access to the chosen page I spoke with a Shopify Rep on chat and they said on 9/11/2019: “Our developers just put out an update, it appears this is the result of an issue on our end. They are investigating now, I will follow up on this thread as soon as they have an update.” Before contacting support to receive the above message, I scoured the web and community and tried all of the suggestions before I finally did the following below steps which solved the “Shopify Facebook Sales Channel Won’t Connect” or “Reconnect”. To SOLVE this problem, I went through all of the steps below to connect the shop correctly via a data feed. a) make sure you have a personal facebook page b) make sure that this facebook personal user is the ADMIN for the Facebook Page that you are trying to connect (see settings –> page roles) on the actual page ie: https://www.facebook.com/YOUR-PAGE-NAME-SHOULD-BE-HERE c) make sure that this is a BUSINESS PAGE and controlled by Facebook Business Manger d) on the business manager page business.facebook.com click on the PAGES on the left ie: https://business.facebook.com/settings/pages/YOUR-REALLYLONGIDSTRINGHERE e) make sure that your PAGE is the PRIMARY BUSINESS PAGE. Click on the page on the right and then you will see PEOPLE to the right of that. Click on the ARROW to the far right of your name and make sure that MANAGE JOBS and VIEW EARNINGS INSIGHTS is turned OFF and that MANAGE PAGE is ON (this means you will have admin privs here too)–> select SAVE f) make sure that the template for your SHOP is using the SHOPPING TEMPLATE. ie: go tohttps://www.facebook.com/YOUR-PAGE-NAME-SHOULD-BE-HERE –> click on SETTINGS top right —> on left click on TEMPLATES AND TABS –> on right it will say TEMPLATES (current template) – if it doesn’t say SHOPPING (select EDIT then select the SHOPPING template and SAVE) g) click on PAGE ROLES on the left and just double check that you are the admin of the page. In some cases, the page will be owned by the BUSINESS MANAGER account and you, as a user will be the admin on the page. h) ADD FACEBOOK PIXEL: go to business.facebook.com and click on top left menu EVENTS MANAGER –> click on GET STARTED under Facebook Pixel on the right. Once completed, COPY the facebook pixel # and go back or LOGIN to SHOPIFY –> SETTINGS –> GENERAL and scroll down to facebook pixel and paste your pixel and SAVE i) NEXT: You are going to do 2 things. 1) add Facebook Marketing and 2) add an app called FLEXIFY https://apps.shopify.com/facebook-product-catalog j) on left side of Shopify Click on MARKETING –> Select Setup Facebook Marketing and follow the steps to connect the account and page (if you need help message me) k) one Facebook Marketing is connected, click on APPS on the left side then click on VISIT SHOPIFY APP STORE top right l) type in FLEXIFY and click ADD APP j) once the app is installed click on FLEXIFY app and then copy the URL for the FEED ending in …./facebook.rss k) go BACK to business.facebook.com and click on COMMERCE ACCOUNTS —> click on the arrow to the right of your name on the last column and make sure you have ADMIN privs. l) on left click on DATA SOURCES –> CATALOGS and click on the CATALOG that should now be there then top right click on OPEN IN CATALOG MANAGER m) on the left side of the CATALOG MANAGER page, click on PRODUCT DATA SOURCES —> then on top right of this page select ADD PRODUCTS and select the Use Data Feeds – select NEXT then enter the facebook.rss url you copied earlier and save. It gives you the option to do the feed hourly, daily or monthly, etc. I usually select DAILY but you may select hourly depending on how busy your store is. SAVE It will then take a little while, sometimes 24 hours for the feed to start picking up the products. If successful, it will show all your products on the SHOP page of facebook. I tried other options before figuring all of this out. I removed the sales channel app for facebook and removed the shopify connector from the facebook account and waited 30 mins, cleared cache, tried different browsers and devices and even tried the mobile app. All failed. This worked for me. It is a little but of a pain but you don’t have to rely on Shopify’s Facebook Channel in order to connect the page. I hope they fix this soon as this is way too many steps just to get this working correctly. Hope this helps someone. Please contact us at (888) 578-8300 or 619-702-7377 for help with this if needed. Hourly rates apply.
Shopify Login August 15, 2019at 22:28 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx How Do I Login To My Shopify Account Admin? You have 200 tabs open in your browser and you type in what you think is your Shopify Login page only to find out that it sends you to Shopify’s main login page. https://accounts.shopify.com/store-login This is fine. Just login with your Shopify Login Credentials. Otherwise, if your domain is already pointing to Shopify just add /admin to the end of your website url. Example: Your website is https://www.my-cool-website.com just make it this https://www.my-cool-website.com/admin (please note: this is a fake domain) Don’t have a Shopify Account? No problem. Sign up here for a free 14 day trial here! You can build your store and make sales before the trial ends! Need help creating a Shopify Store? We are Shopify Experts in San Diego but we develop for Shopify all over the world! Contact Us Today, FREE No Obligation Consultation. Since 1992, After Dark Grafx has been creating online brands for businesses large and small. Contact us today to discuss your project and budget. We specialize in Shopify, Magento, Miva and WordPress WooCommerce websites. We build them Fast, Search Engine Optimization Friendly and Mobile Device Specific.