Guidebase Store

Bigcommerce Responsive Theme - Userguide

Created: 01/04/2017
Latest update: 01/04/2017/li>
By: Apollotheme

THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING OUR THEME!

Here are some basics on installing, configuring and customizing the Guidebase Store,

BEFORE WE GO

The theme and the sample data is provided "as is". Customizing code and other design related issues can be done as freelance work on a $50-100 hourly rate only with Paypal and/or Skrill, if Guidebase Store's available. If you are new to Bigcommerce, please understand I cannot fix your site for free. Apollotheme would love to help everyone but there is no time. I suggest reading documentation available online regarding using Bigcommerce, server requirements, etc.

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Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Apollotheme Team

THEME INTRODUCTION

Responsive Bigcommerce theme "Guidebase Store" is an elegant eCommerce Bigcommerce Guidebase theme that charms your stores with the professional design, a sleek layout and functional features. The site makeover is well suited for Guidebase stores about clothing, shoes, glasses and accessories.

At the first glance, you may fall for the beautiful imagery display of "Guidebase Store" which is catchy, smooth and mostly animated. "Guidebase Store" supports responsive web design along with Off-canvas menu for mobile device accessibility."Guidebase Store" also settings to get your store in multiple store views.

Getting Started

Getting up and running with Providence is quick and easy. Simply create a Bigcommerce account, purchase the theme and upload it. You'll then have the opportunity to customize it to your liking before publishing it as your main theme.

If that sounds like a lot, don't worry… each step is outlined in detail below and it's entirely possible to go from scratch to a store running Providence in under ten minutes!

Purchasing Providence

You could buy theme at providers such as: ThemeForest , Bigcommerce ...

Installing Providence

After you have followed the 'Purchasing Providence' steps above, you can download your theme and easily install your own theme for your online store based on our guideline below.

- Below is the image size we used in demo (You can refer them to build your website)

- You must upload/import images had the same size. The product’s image must had the same ratio.

- Ratio = (Width/height). Example: Product image had size (400px x 200px) => ratio = 400/200 = 2. You must upload all product image for website has ratio = 2.

AP Boutique Store

Note: For display perfectly on the webpage, you just need to follow the exact image dimension and steps we given below, if your current image does not fit, you can use
software like photoshop to crop the image to the given dimension. These are most typical images of Boutique Theme:

Image Dimension

STT	Image Name	Image Size	Demo
1	Slideshow Image	1920x972	View image
2	Product Image	600x885	View image
3	Banner Top Image	280x450 280x216 280x216 576x217 280x450	View image View image View image View image View image
4	Logo Image	576x377	View image
5	Image Testimonial	80x80	View image
6	Blog Image	1024x609	View image
7	Breadcrumb Image	1900x400	View image
8	Brand Image	180x80	View image

I. Install theme

If you are new with Bigcommerce. We advise reading and familiarizing yourself with the Bigcommerce Manual.

To install the theme, log in to your Bigcommerce

Upload theme

II. Edit Currency

Upload theme

Link Detail Here

III. Create page

1. Creating a Web Content Page

Go to Storefront Content › Web Pages, then click Create a Web Page.

Upload theme

Pages you created will be shown on the navigation menu.

Notes: Bigcommerce currently supports sub-menu for categories only, if you nested child page within parent page, child page will not be shown.

Link Detail Here

IV. Import Data Product Sample

- Go to Products › Import Products.

- Fill out your preferred settings under Import Details.Reference link:

Link Import Product

- General Setting

- When store administrators use Theme Editor to customize your theme for their store, the store's resulting configuration settings are saved to a separate configuration service at BigCommerce.

Upload theme

Theme Editor is a friendly user interface that allows BigCommerce merchants to modify their storefront's look and feel without coding.
Users customize their storefront theme by selecting from among graphical examples and menu options.

Upload theme

Megamenu

1.Create menu

Detail here

2.Configure Ui Megamenu

- Go to Theme Editor -> -> Header -> Scroll to User Menu navigation

Slideshow

1.Carousel builder

- Go to Storefront Design › Home Page Carousel to edit slideshow:

Carousel Builder
2.Carousel configuration

- Go to Theme editor -> Carousel

Home Page

1. Banner Marketing

Before create banner, remember to upload your images to the Image manager

Click View Full Size to see the generated link by bigcommerce

In the Bigcommerce Control Panel, go to Marketing > Banners to edit banner

Banner top

Banner bottom

Blog

Footer

1. About Shop

- Go to Storefornt Setup > Store Profile

2. Navigate Footer

- GotoStorefront --> Web Pages

3. Brand Footer

- Goto Products --> Brand

5. Block Social

- Goto Storefront --> Social Media Links

Detail Here

6. Block Payment

Goto Theme Editor --> Payment icons

You can enable/disable icon payment

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