how to develop shopify themes

what's up youtube chris here again from,christthefreelancer.com,and in this video let's talk about how,to actually become,a shopify theme developer,first of all thanks for your patience,over the last few months it's been,a bit of a busy period with lots of,client work and of course the release of,my latest skillshare class,linkedin freelancing which we'll talk,about later in the video,but for now i want to get straight into,the topic and talk about how to become,a shopify theme developer so obviously,on this channel so far we've covered,quite a bit on shopify theme development,it's been my focus for the last year and,a half,after i started specializing in this,area and you guys have,maybe seen my video on the day in the,life you're curious on how,to actually get to the point where you,can start freelancing or even work in a,job as a shopify,theme developer well there's two parts,and of course you're going to need to,the skills to perform the work but,you're also going to need to know how to,find work and actually get started,getting your first projects,so those are the two parts we're going,to be talking about in today's video,starting with skills do you have the,skills of a front-end web developer,because essentially a shopify theme,developer is just a front-end web,developer,who works on the shopify platform so if,you don't even know what the difference,between front end and back end is,definitely check out my course,understanding web development a,beginner's guide to the web,on skillshare if you're starting at that,point you really need to start with the,basics of web development,but i'm going to assume that you at,least know the difference,between front end and back end for this,video and so,front end as you should know is html css,javascript pretty much everything that,is run in your browser,all right so you've got the back end,which sends the,html css and javascript to the front end,and the front end,is what gets put together in your,browser and essentially that is all,you have access to in shopify and it's,delivered,through the theme all right so yes,you're going to need to know,html and css and javascript depending on,the complexity of the task within theme,development,you don't have to be you know a master,of all the frameworks because,it's best to keep it simple when you're,working with shopify themes when it,comes to javascript,but you need to have some skills in,front of web development so,this is going to be much easier for you,if you already,work as a front-end web developer or,have learnt those skills,the second thing you need to learn to,kind of,bring those front-end web development,skills over to skillshare,is to learn about shopify liquid shopify,liquid,is the templating language of shopify,themes it's essentially,like a programming language but like,really dumbed down and all it does is,extract data from your store and present,it,in the theme so there's no there's,nothing within shopify liquid for you to,update a database or anything like that,it doesn't provide you any back-end,operations,it just brings the data from the store,and puts it together with html css,and javascript to create the front-end,experience,shopify liquid doesn't take that long to,master it's as i said very dumbed down,language,and if you want to know how to code in,shopify liquid,i've got a tutorial on this youtube,channel it's basically,the crash course that's going to get you,started with shopify liquid,and of course if you want to go deeper,shopify theme,programming on my skillshare channel is,kind of,the next step after that okay now the,third thing you're going to need to know,in terms of skills is kind of the,platform,itself so shopify how it actually works,how,there's different templates and what,objects are available within,which templates how snippets sections,and layouts work with the templates all,of that kind of theme structure,that's stuff i cover in my skillshare,class,shopify theme development how to build,and customize,your own online store so again i've got,resources here for all the kind of,different,things that you need to learn but to,kind of give you a road map here,you need to know front-end web,development you need to know,how to use shopify liquid which by the,way is not overwhelming,you know you can just look up the,reference how do i get the title,of the product to show on the page it's,quite simple,product dot title again tutorial on,youtube if you want to watch that,and then the third one which is the,shopify platform itself you need to know,where to look to edit certain things you,need to know,what templates to edit in order to edit,certain pages,how to create sections all that kind of,stuff so now that you have those three,things you've got,those skills now what you can do is you,can start,looking for work now how i did it is,going to be a bit unique to me not,everyone's going to have this,opportunity,but what i did was i took my front-end,web development skills,and i took up a job working for an,agency where i pretty much only worked,on shopify e-commerce sites so all the,kind of,shopify specific training and experience,i needed,was in that first job that i took within,this agency,so that was a great learning experience,for me and not only was it a good,learning experience,it was something to put on the resume,and the portfolio i was able to tell,people that i'd been working on,these sites that i was working on in the,agency but like i said i don't expect,that everyone is going to have that,opportunity,so what i would recommend for most,people is upwork,upwork.com is the world's biggest,freelance marketplace,and the reason why i recommend using,upwork,is because number one that's how i got,started with freelance web development,i mean i i did get some clients locally,when i was based in my home city of,brisbane but then when i started,traveling and wanted to,gain clients consistently and remotely i,started to use up work,so that's why i would recommend upwork,the thing with upwork is,as long as you build your profile to a,certain standard,so we're talking about a high job,success score,and a top-rated badge and just like lots,of five-star reviews,or four and five-star reviews just good,reviews in general,you will start to get invited to jobs,and you can update,the service you provide to whatever and,you'll still get invites,something that's happened with my,profile is i've never done a shopify,specific job,on upwork.com but i built up this,experience and had five star ratings top,rated badge,100 job success score and so when i,changed my title to shopify,i just got invites for shopify jobs,i i definitely have those skills but,it's not even demonstrated,in my work experience on upwork itself,and that's actually a hot tip because,now upwork,have an application process when i,started doing up work,ages ago i didn't have to go through any,application process,but i've heard now they're making it a,little harder to get in so as a little,hack,something that i've heard people doing,is putting in,a different niche that's underserved in,their application,getting approved and then changing their,niche changing their service,once they're inside so the deal with,upwork is you just want to build up,a good reputation serving people that,need your help,and you can switch your profile to,whatever you want later on,so the great thing about freelancing,with upwork is at the same time you're,essentially building an,asset in the form of your profile that,with all those,ratings you're going to get people,approaching you and you're going to get,invitations coming in for you on,autopilot,without having to send out proposals so,upwork is what i recommend to most,people getting started with online,freelancing,it's what i use to get started and again,you're building an asset that's going to,feed you work,in the future but now i've kind of moved,on,and how i find work is through,professional networking,mainly through linkedin and groups and,just personal connections that i have,but it did take me a while to build up,to that,and so i do still recommend up work for,beginners but that being said,if you're a particularly confident,person you're good at sales you can just,start pitching brands,straight away like now is the time uh,you know at the time of recording this,video,we in this global pandemic and stores,are being shut down like physical stores,are being shut down and there's,lockdowns and all sorts of problems,now is the time if you are a store and,you aren't,on e-commerce now is the time to do it,because it's more important than ever,to be selling online because it's not,susceptible to all the same lockdown,laws,as you know a physical retail store so i,know for me,in australia we've had some lockdowns,we've had some pretty serious lockdowns,in victoria,you know now could be the time to pitch,these companies that have physical,stores that can't open,on getting set up online i know a lot of,people are flooding,to the online space naturally shopify,has,exploded in popularity recently so this,was always going to happen,e-commerce was always the future but,this whole pandemic thing has,sped up the process so there's plenty of,ways in which you can tap,into this market demand this demand to,move online,and to use the most popular e-commerce,platform in the world right now,shopify so there is demand for shopify,developers out there whether you find,work through upwork,or you pitch people find you know brands,that haven't gone online yet,or network with designers who design for,e-commerce sites,there's like so many different ways you,can find clients,in terms of upwork and linkedin i've,shared my strategies on my skillshare,channel,so the linkedin one is the latest one if,you want to check that out,a link will be in the description but if,you look at my skillshare channel,overall i've,i've kind of structured it now to be,beginner web development,then learning shopify and then finding,clients through,upwork linkedin there might be some,other topics i do in future on,freelancing,but essentially i've kind of built the,channel around that,so definitely recommend you check out,skillshare you can get like two weeks,for free,using my link below so if you hate it,you can just leave after 13 days,but i think if you're interested in this,stuff you probably want to stick around,been getting good reviews on the courses,so they've been helping a lot of people,and so if you want to go way deeper than,this you know five to ten minute video,you can just kind of go through the,skillshare channel all right so forgive,the plug there guys but,that's essentially what the channel's,there for it's to help you guys,go through that process if you want to,become a shopify theme developer,obviously number one you're going to,have to learn,those skills so number one no front-end,web development,number two no shopify liquid number,three,understand the shopify platform and then,it's all about kind of,finding places where you can pitch,brands and companies,to work on their stores again upwork.com,is my number one recommendation to get,started,but there are so many possibilities you,might even want to use some of the,strategies in my linkedin,class on skillshare to reach out to,brands directly,maybe you have a really good pitch in,mind but yeah essentially guys,now is the time to get into this niche,i'm very,happy i got into this shopify theme,development niche i think it's,particularly underserved so definitely,recommend you,jump at the opportunity now of course if,you have any questions leave them in the,comments below,i'd be happy to look through and answer,them any requests for future videos,obviously help me out and let me know,what you want to see next,on the channel as always guys thanks for,watching the links to everything,discussed will be in the,description of this video and i'll see,you on the next one

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