hi there my name is Simon and in this video I'm going to show you step by step how to design a Shopify store so if you've never built or designed a Shopify store before then the entire process can be quite overwhelming and the video you're watching right now will make it a lot easier for you because it will take you step by step through the entire process of designing your own store and going through all the settings and all the options so you can be sure that you've covered everything that you need to cover and you know what you can do with the Shopify editor and how to actually build out your store so it looks great in the end so I'm going to leave all the steps we going to cover in the video description down below so if you're looking for a specific part you can also jump ahead but I would say let's not waste any more time and get straight into the tutorial all right so the first step is to sign up for your Shopify account and I recommend to use my referral link which you can find Down Below in the description to sign up this will take you to my Shopify Commerce coach landing page which will allow you to extend your free trial for an additional three months for just $1 per month so essentially get 3 months of using Shopify with all the features for only $1 per month which is a great offer and it gives you enough time to get everything ready for the launch of your store so make sure to use that first link in the description and once you're on this page just type in your email address and then click on start free trial then here Shopify is going to ask you a few questions about what type of business or shop you're trying to build so if you want you can answer those questions here but it really doesn't matter what you answer because the Shopify version we're getting is the same for everybody so what I like to do is just click on skip all here at the bottom here just just select your country and click on next then we need to create our Shopify account so you can either use your Apple Facebook or Google account or just sign up using an email which is what I'm going to do so I'm going to choose this option and then decide on a password and click on create Shopify account now your Shopify store is being created now that our store is created we are in the Shopify dashboard where the first thing I like to do is activate the extended 3 months trial so to do that we're going to go to the bottom right and click on this black box and then click on select a plan then to sort out the basic plan is going to be more than enough and we can see here we get it for $1 per month for the first 3 months so let's click on choose basic then for the billing cycle I'm going to go with monthly but you can also choose yearly if you want to save some money so let's click on confirm billing cycle then enter your business address then for the payment method I'm going to go with credit card and once everything is filled in we can go ahead and click on subscribe so now that our extended trial is activated we have full access to all the features for 3 months so now we can start designing our store the first thing we want to do is choose a theme for our store so let's head over to online store and this will take us to the themes and as you can see the current theme that is already installed is the dawn theme but if you want to change it you can scroll down and then you can click on visit theme store and then here you have a library of all kinds of different themes you can use and install on your store so you can browse those themes if you want to just keep in mind that a lot of these themes are actually paid themes so you're going to have to PVE in order for you to install them on your store if you're just starting out I would just stick to the free themes and you can just filter them by clicking on the free filter here on the left side and that leaves you with all of the different free themes that you can use with the Shopify plan and if you want to check them out just click on the theme and then click on view demo store and then you can just click through the entire store and see how all of the pages look like and if you find one that uh you like you can you can just click on try theme on the top right and now your theme will be installed on your store and it takes us back to the Shopify dashboard where under theme Library we can see an overview of all the themes that we have and currently the new theme that we have just looked at is being installed now the new theme is installed and if you actually want to use it we're going to have to click on publish and then again click on publish and now the theme has switched from the default theme which is the dawn theme to the new one that we have just added which is called refresh now in this video I'm actually going to use the default theme which is the dawn theme it's one of the best they have and I see a lot of successful Shopify stores just using this Dawn theme so that's what we're going to use in this video as well now to switch back to the default theme I'm just going to click on publish for the dawn theme and confirm and now it's switched back to the dawn theme and we can just get rid of this one right now I just wanted to show you how to actually install another theme so now we are back with the default theme and now we're going to start customizing our store so let's click on customize and this will take us into the store editor where currently we are on the homepage as we can see here if you want to switch Pages we can just click here and then switch to any of the pages that we'd like to edit and then here on the left side we can see an overview of all of the elements on our page so on every page on your store there's going to be the header area which you can see here currently in the header we have an announcement bar here at the top then we have a the header which is just the menu our store name or the logo and then the shopping cart here at the right side and then between the header and the footer which is all the way at the bottom like this part here here usually we have some links to some legal Pages maybe an email sign up section and then also some icons depending on what you'd like to add and then in between the header and the footer we have um just the content of the page so on the homepage currently by default they've put an image Banner in here and then also a feature collection just showing off a few products on our store so our entire store is going to be built out of different type of sections and then within those sections we have different types of elements so for example here we have the image Banner section and then inside we have a text block as well and then we have the button block which we can see here you can also add more blocks by just clicking here and then we can add some more text or we could also add more sections so when we scroll down and let's say we want to add a section between this section here at the top the image banner and the feature products we just click on the plus icon here and then we have some different types of sections that we can add so for example we can add some text like the rich text section and then the section will be added and we can just click click on it and start editing the content here now you can also move sections up or down the way I like to do it is to just go to the left side overview and then just drag and drop this section to wherever we want it to be on our page and here now you can see an overview of the page on the right side whenever you want to delete a specific section on your page just hover over the section here on the left side and click on the trash icon or just select the section and then on the bottom left you can see a remove section just click here and then the section will be removed so now that you're familiar with how the pages are structured on your Shopify store let's start designing your store now the first thing we're going to do is add a slideshow here at the top of the homepage that's something you see a lot especially with like fashion stores so we're going to do that as well so you can also use this image banner and then just add one image but in my case I'm just going to delete this entire section and then I'm going to click on ADD section and I'm going to look for a slideshow section so I'm going to choose the slideshow and then it will be inserted right here so now the feature products are above the slides show and I actually want to change that so let's go back to the overview and then drag and drop the section to the top of the homepage now in order for us to actually add the the content the images to this section let's select it by clicking on it and then for the first slide let's click on select image so for this store I've already prepared a few images that I want to add to this slideshow so I'm just going to drag and drop all of the images into uh this field then once they're uploaded I'm going to select the first image and click on done and now when we go back to the overview here on the left side we can see that we have one image here in the first slide and I actually want to have four different images so four slides so I'm going to click on ADD slide and then go back once again and add another slide so I have four slides here that I can add so let's add the second image by going to the second one select image and now let's choose this one here click on done and then I'm going to go to the third one select image choose this one done and go back once again go to the fourth slide select the image and now let's choose this one done now let's go back again and now we can see we have four different slides and we can also see um how they change when we click on this Arrow here at the bottom we can see they basically change here so we have four different ones and the next step is going to be uh changing up this section here so uh now we are on the first slide and the first thing I want to do is kind of change up the style so what I'm going to do is I'm going to uncheck this option here show container on desktop and then I'm going to change the desktop content position I'm going to put this in the bottom left corner right here so let's click on bottom left and then I'm also going to do a desktop content alignment to the left and now I also need to change the um the color because we have a a kind of a darker background so let's change the color scheme to uh the scheme 3 which makes this white and then we can change the text so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to copy and paste some taglines here that I've have prepared for the heading so I'm going to paste that in here and then I'm not going to use a subheading so I'm just going to delete this here and then for the button label I'm going to just change it to shop now and then whenever you add a button you also want to make sure that the button actually links somewhere so under button link here let's choose a page so let's just um send this to the products let's say all products and now the button is filled out as you can see here and I actually want to make the text here a bit smaller so for the heading size I'm going to change it to small and there we go that's the look I wanted to go for and now we want to basically do the same thing for all of the other other slides as well so let's go back one step and then choose the second slide and then here it makes more sense to have the button and the text here on the bottom right because there's some empty space here so let's scroll down and then put the content to the bottom right then desktop alignment let's do left and then also uncheck this option and now the color seam is actually good because we have a light background so we need dark text now let's delete the subheading and then I'm just going to use another one of these taglines that I've prepared for the heading so right here you can also see something like um our check out our fall collection and then have the button go to the fall collection later in the video I'm going to show you how to add collections um then heading size I'm going to do small here and yeah that looks good now I also need to um link the button so let's go to button link and then again let's link it to all products like this and now the button is filled out so now I'm going to do the same thing for the other two slides as well or actually I forgot to change the button text so let's just quickly do that as well I'm going to just change it to shop now and then move on to the other slides so now I'm done with all of these slides that I want to have here at the top of the homepage obviously it's up to you what kind of content you want to add here I recommend to just add some of your best sellers or if you have some sale going on you can just put a banner here about your sale or maybe show some new collections here and then have the buttons go to those specific pages and by the way whenever you want to see how your store looks like on different types of devices you can just come over to the top right and then switch from desktop view to mobile view and then you can see how the page currently looks like on a mobile phone or also how it looks like on a desktop version but usually I like to make the changes here on the desktop version now we're going to move on to the next section of our homepage which is going to be featuring a few of our products now again it's up to you what kind of products you want to feature here usually what many stores do is kind of feature their new arrivals or maybe their best sellers or maybe it's a one product store you want to have a just a feature product section so by clicking on ADD section you can add a feature product section and then people can buy that specific product directly on the homepage but now I'm going to show you how to add products to your store and how to add collections so there will be actually your products displayed here on the homepage so to add our products to our store we're going to have to go back to the Shopify dashboard so make sure you save the changes here by clicking save at the top right and then let's hover over the exit button at the top left right click and then click open in a new tab and this way we have the Shopify dashboard here in this new tab but we still have the editor open here and we can see all the changes that we make so this just an easy way to kind of build your store a bit quicker so you don't have to just go back and forth all the time so now in your dashboard let's go to products and then here let's click on ADD product and here you just want to go from top to bottom and add all information about the product that you're selling so as an example I'm just going to add um a hoodie as a product so I'm just going to type in hoodie and then for the description you want to obviously also give some more information about the product what makes it special maybe some specific measures as well depending on what you're selling you can also use this generate text um AI option to kind of have ai write a text or a description for you if you want that then under media it's very important that you add high quality images of the products that you're selling a lot of your store design will come down to the the kind of quality of images you have that you can add as content on your store so I'm just going to um drag and drop in a few images of this product and then here once they're uploaded you can also rearrange them however you want to then under pricing you can just type in the price here so let's say this is going to be $99 and then you can always add a compare prodct price this is going to be shown as a price that will be kind of stried through so kind of like now it used to be $120 and now it's just $99 then you can also add some information about your inventory and also if you want to charge shipping based on weight you can add the weight of the product here and if you have variance like different sizes or colors or any types of variants then you definitely want to set those up here under variants once you've entered all the information about your product let's click on Save and now when we go back here we can see that under products we have our first product added and to add more of our products we just go to add product again and then go through the exact same steps so now I've added a few more products to my store and I also want to create a few collections so when we come over here and click on collections then here we can create different categories for the different types of product that we're selling currently there's like a homepage collection I actually don't need this one so I'm just going to select it here and then I'm going to go to the three dots and click on delete collection and confirm and then what I want to do is create a collection for men's clothing and then also for women's clothing so let's click on create collection and then here let's create one for women first so I'm just going to type in women and then under collection type I'm going to leave it on manual manual so I can manually add products to this collection you can also have it automated and then you would just be working with tags so it could give um specific tags like for a hoodie you would give it a tag hoodie and then also women depending on who this hoodie is for and what kind of style it is and then you can create automations so that your products will be automatically assigned to specific collections but now I'm going to make it simple and just stick to the manual one and then we also want to add an image here for this collection so I'm going to go and look uh in my folder here and I've prepared an image right here I'm just going to drag and drop that in so that people can see okay this is the women's collection then let's click on Save and now I'm also going to create a men's collection so I'm going to click on create another collection now I'm going to type in men and again we're going to stick to manual collection type and then add another Collection image here and and click on Save now when we go back to our collections we can see we have a men's and a women's collection and I want to add a third collection for all of the products that I want to display directly on the homepage so for example I could display all of the new products that we have so the new arrivals so let's again go to create collection and then I'm going to type in new arrivals of course you can also just add maybe a winter collection you want to display on the page page or maybe a bestsellers collection whatever makes sense for your store so then I'm just going to also add an image here and then click on Save and go back and now we have our three collections but as you can see we have no product in our collection so far so the next step would be to add our products to these collections so let's go back to our products and then let's select all of the products that are for men so in my case this would be these ones right here and then once they're selected I'm going to go to the three dots at the bottom and click on add to collections and in this case I'm going to add them to the men's collection and click save and then I'm going to do the same thing for the women's products so again just mark them all go to the three dots add to collections and then choose the women's collection and then let's just add a few more products to let's say the new arrivals collection let's just add maybe these right here and go to add Collections and then add these to the new arrivals and click save so now we have added all of our products and also we've created a few collections to work with so now we can go back to the other tab which is the Shopify editor if you don't have this tab open still you want to just go to online store here and then click on customize and this will take you back to your editor so we're back here on the homepage and right here we have a feature products section and this section will just show some of our products now what I want to do is I want to show my new arrivals collection right here below this header or below this main section at the top so I'm going to delete this featured collection by clicking on the trash icon and then I'm going to click on ADD section and I'm going to look for a featured collection right here and now I have to tell Shopify what kind of collection I want to feature here on the homepage so let's scroll down on the left side menu and click on select collection and in my case I want to add the new arrivals collection so I'm going to check this one and then click on select and now we can see that the collection that is shown are all of the products that we have put into the new arrivals collection we can also change the title here so I would also change this to new arrivals and we can also add an description for example check out our new stock or something like that and now the next section that I want to add to my homepage is I want to show the men's and the women's collection so people who get to the store they can click on men's or women's depending on what they're shopping for so let's go back to the overview here and then below my featured collection I'm going to add another section and in this case I'm I'm going to add a collection list so it will display the different types of collections we have so let's click here and then we can see there will be three different collections displayed in my case I only want to show two so I'm going to decrease the number of columns on desktop to two and now we only have two different collections so I'm going to select the first collection by just clicking on it and then click on select collection and I'm going to use the women's one first select and then also go to the second one and then select the men's collection and now for some reason there's still like a collection down here so let's go back to the overview here and then under collection list let's just delete this third collection by clicking the trash icon and now we're just left with these two Collections and maybe let's also change the title here so let's go back to this section and under heading um I'm just going to delete it because people will know what this means and now I can see that there's still this third collection down here so we want to delete that so let's just click on it here and then click on remove block on the bottom left and now we're just left with the women's and the men's collection let's also delete this title here or maybe change it to something else so instead of collections let's just say find your style and now when people actually click on these collections they will get to the women's collection or the men's collection so maybe let's try it out let's click on it and then you can see this is the all of the products that we have added to the women's collection and um this will directly go to the collection page so let's go back to our homepage by switching Pages here at the top and this would be like the basic structure of like a fashion store so you have some lifestyle images here at the top like the slideshow that we have added you have a specific collection that you can display here and then you also have your main collections like for this store it's going to be a women's and a men's collection and then if you want to you can also add more things like if you want to tell a story or if you want to just give some more information about how your products are made there are good sections for this kind of content you can just click on ADD section here and then add the section that would make the most sense for what you like to communicate so now let's move on and take a look at how to customize the header of our store the header is always on top of all of the pages on your store and currently we have two sections in the header we have the announcement bar which is this one here at the top and then we have the header itself so the announcement bar is usually used for announcement as the name says so for example if you have like a Black Friday sale going on what you could do is just change the text here to something like use code let's say B B F2 bf20 for 20% off or something like that and then people will see that and they will be more likely to actually buy something on your store you can also type in something like limited time only or just something that will get people to actually purchase something now you can also delete this entire bar if that's not something you want to do you can just click on the trash icon here and then the entire announcement bar will be gone so now let's look at the uh actual header section where we have the store name or the logo section where you put your logo then you have the menu and then you have the search bar and the card so the first thing I want to do is add my logo here to the top of the store so let's select our header and then let's scroll all the way down and go to the theme settings then scroll further down and then you should see where you can put in your logo so I'm just going to drag and drop in a logo I quickly created in canva um so I'm just going to drag and drop that in here and this will automatically put in the logo to our header now if you're wondering how to create logos really quickly what you can do is just sign up for a canva account I'm going to leave the link Down Below in the description and then you can just type in something like fashion store logo and then you have a lot of templates that you can use and you can just change the text here and then download the logo and use it on your store so once it's uploaded we can also change some settings so we can just drag the slider here to the right to make it a bit larger if we want to maybe we do 120 pixels and then we can also change the layout of the entire header so let's scroll back up and then maybe play around with the settings bit so something we could do here is change the logo position so what I like to do is just actually use middle Center and then we have the logo here in the center and the menu here on the right side if you want to have a bit more of a minimalistic style here for your header you could also change the menu type to a drawer and then you just get this hamburger icon where you can click and then the menu will open up here on the left side I'm just going to actually use the drop- down one uh the default one and now I want to show you how to customize this main menu here in the header so to customize this we're going to have to go back to the Shopify dashboard which we still have open here in another tab so once here we're we're going to go to online store and then click on navigation once here we want to click on main menu this is the one at the top of your store and then here we can edit the menu so for example I don't want to have a home link so I'm just going to click on delete and confirm then we can also delete the catalog page if you want to and then we can also add new items like for example I want to add some of my collections so I'm just going to click on ADD menu item and then I'm going to click here and go to collections and I'm going to choose the men's collection and then I'm going to do the same thing and also choose the women's collection and to change the order of the menu items we can just drag and drop whatever we want to change here so I want to have women men and then contact so let's click on Save menu and now we can go back to the editor save the page and now when we reload the page we should be able to see the new menu here at the top now let's move on and go to the footer of the website which is all the way at the bottom so right here we can click on it and then we see all the options here on the left side so by default they have added this email signup section where people can type in their email address and then you can send them out your newsletter or specific promo codes or something like that if you're collecting emails on your store I recommend to actually offer something like a 10% discount on the first order so actually people will have an incentive to sign up just asking people to subscribe to your emails it's probably not going to work that well so for this store I'm not going to collect any emails yet so what I'm going to do is just turn this option off here on the left side I'm going to uncheck show email signup and then this will disappear appear and then here we can enter all of our social media links so to make the social media icons appear we have to just copy and paste in our links to these fields so for the Facebook profile we just paste in our Facebook URL and then for the Instagram we paste in our Instagram YouTube Tik Tok and so on and just by doing that these social media icons will appear here in the footer and when people click on those icons they will go to the links that you put in here now let's scroll back up to the different options and then we have the country and region selector so if you have multiple countries you're selling to then you want to make sure that this is enabled as well so people can change the country that they're located in then we have the same thing for a language selector and then we have the payment methods as well so by default Shopify always shows you different payment methods um if you want to remove those you can just uncheck this option and then they will disappear but I recommend to actually leave them turned on because then people can see that there's a lot of options to actually check out and pay for the products that they want to buy now the next thing that we need to do is actually activate the policy links right here so we want to check this option but we haven't set up our policies yet so we need our shipping policy our return policy and so on so that's what we're going to do now we're going to set up these pages and then once we have done that they will appear in the footer as well so to set up our policies let's first save our Chang and then let's go back to the Shopify dashboard we have it still open here in the other Tab and then we want to go to settings all the way at the bottom left and then we want to look for policies it's right here at the bottom and then here you can simply enter all of your policies now if you need some guidance on how to create your policy then I recommend to just use the templates of Shopify when you click on create from template then they will put in a template for a basic return and refund policy and what I recommend is to just read through this policy and then make any changes to your specific store and business then you can do the same thing with the privacy policy with the terms of service and then we also have a shipping policy there's no template for this one so you want to write that yourself just tell people um how long it will take for them to receive the product and then we also have the contact information just put all that in here and once all these policies are filled out we can just click on Save then close the settings and now let's go back to the Shopify editor and then when we reload the page we can see that all of the policy links are visible here at the bottom of the footer because we have activated the show policy option for the footer now one thing that I don't like with this Dawn theme is that the policy links here are all left lined and I actually want to have them centered just like the other elements here in the footer as well and in order for us to do that we actually have to go into the theme code and just do some fancy things which is really annoying and the thing that I like to do instead is to just add a footer menu and then put all of the links in the footer menu so I'm going to show you how to do that now so first we're going to deselect this option again show policy links and then they will disappear once again next we're going to save the changes and then we're going to go back into to the Shopify dashboard and then go to sales channels and then go to navigation and now we're going to go into the footer menu here and then first I'm going to delete the search function so just click delete here and confirm and then I'm going to click on ADD menu item and then add all of the policies that we've just created by clicking here then go to policies and then choose all of your policies here and just add them to your footer menu once everything is added let's click on Save menu and then go back to the editor and now we're going to go back to the overview here and then scroll down to the footer and now we're going to add a new block here at the bottom click add block and we're going to click on menu this will now add the links that we have just added to the footer menu so let's click on this block and then if you want to change the menu you can also add the main menu here if you want to but I want to just delete the title because I don't need it so the title will disappear and now we have a centered list of all of our policies and also the contact page here at the bottom um of the page it's not right here at the bottom of the footer but now it's centered and I think it looks a lot better now I want to also show you how to get rid of the powered by Shopify a text here at the bottom because it's also something that is a bit annoying to do but it's actually quite easy so let's click on Save and then let's go back to the dashboard let's go to online store and then go to the three dots and go to edit default theme content then here let's search for links and then under links you can see powered by Shopify what we want to do here is just click into this field and then just hit enter so we have a space here and then click save now when we go back to the editor and and reload the page then scroll all the way down we can see that the powered by Shopify is now gone so we just have the copyright 2023 and then your store name now we need to change the name of our store to our actual brand name so we can see that here at the bottom as well so let's do that now by going back to the dashboard then going to settings at the bottom left and then here under store details we can click on this pen icon and then here here change the name of our store and this case this would be coconut I think is the name of this brand so let's click on Save and now when we go back to our editor and reload the page again we should see at the bottom that the name of our store is now visible here and when you click on it it'll just get to the homepage so now we're done with the header and the footer of our store now we can also go into the theme settings and look at a couple of things there so to get to the theme settings we can go to the left side on the ski icon and then you have all kinds of different options you can go through so for example under logo we can see we already added our logo here to the header but one thing that that we haven't added yet is our favon image so if you don't know what that is you can just go to the three dots here and then click on view and this will open up your store in a new tab and here you can see in the tab window here there's a small icon and this is the fabon so we can customize how that looks and usually that's just kind of the logo of the brand so what I like to do is just add a square version of the logo so I've prepared one for this store I'm just going to drag and drop that in it's basically just the first letter of this logo so once that's added I can just click on Save and now when I go back to the store and then when we reload the page we can see that this icon is now visible here at the top of the browser then when we go back to the theme settings and go to the colors we can also change all of the different colors for all of the color schemes that this um template has so if you want to go into it you can I usually just leave it as it is because because it's already kind of optimized the same thing with typography here you can change all the settings all the different fonts that you want to use for your website and then you have some more options like animations buttons Styles and stuff like that I usually don't spend too much time in these options because like I said it's already kind of optimized by the theme that we're using so now we're done with the main parts of Designing our store we mainly focused on adding things to the homepage because Shopify kind of already optimizes all the other Pages based on the theme that you've chosen like for example if we go to our product page then we can see that this is what it looks like so here you can see all the information that we give when we add our products then you have here the product images and usually you can see also some related products here at the bottom based on the tags you give your products now um because I haven't done that you can't see any products but just keep in mind that you have a lot more customization options so for example you can add another section here at the bottom to your product pages so there's a lot more things that you can do but we just covered kind of the basic things that you need to do when uh starting a new Shopify store and you just want to keep things simple also make sure to check out your store on a mobile device because most people nowadays are actually shopping on their mobile phone so I want to make sure everything looks great on mobile phones as well just go through all the pages and just see if everything looks good usually Shopify does a great job at optimizing everything from mobile so there's nothing you need to do but sometimes you just want to change something up because on mobile it doesn't look the way you intended it to look now before we go ahead and launch our store there are some very important settings that we need to look at and things that we need to set up in order for us to start selling products on our store so let's head over to our Shopify dashboard and then from here let's open up our settings so under store details we've already set up our store name but we also want to make sure everything else is correct as well like the billing information the store currency and then also like the units of your store then a very important thing is setting up our payment systems so under payments we can set up Shopify payments which will allow our visitors to check out using a credit card Google pay Apple pay shop pay whatever they want so just click on complete account setup then fill in all of your information so that people will be able to check out on your store if you want to you can also add PayPal checkout as well then let's go to ship shipping and delivery this is where you want to set up your shipping rates for you to ship the products to the customer so there's a lot of options here with Shopify we can have a general shipping rate for domestic shipping international shipping or it can also have multiple shipping profiles for different kinds of products or you want to add shipping based on weight or based on quantity you can all set this up here in the shipping and delivery menu then under taxes and duties you want to make sure to set up your taxes that you need to collect correctly based on where you're shipping to and based on where you're selling from so make sure to take a look at this as well and now we also want to go to domains and connect a custom domain to our store currently this is our domain and you can also see it right here it's just a Shopify domain and we want to change that to our own custom branded domain and we can buy our domain directly here on Shopify or if you already have one you can also connect it by clicking here but the easiest way is just to buy it here by clicking buy new domain and then you want to type in the brand name or the domain you're trying to go for so I might look for coconut fashion.com or something like that it's probably already taken so we can see here is already taken we could go for a net. store or something like that um I probably would try and go for a com domain and once you find one just click on buy go through the checkout process and then the domain will be automatically connected to your store there is nothing more that you need to do then if you're selling internationally it might also make sense for you to go to languages and then add more languages to your store Shopify makes it pretty simple to translate your store into other languages just click here and then select the language you want to translate your store in and then go through this process as you can see here Shopify says that it increases your conversion by 133% for international um customers so that's definitely something that you want to do if you're selling internationally so now we've looked at the most important settings so let's close the settings here and now we're basically ready to publish our store currently our store is not published yet so no one can access it but us and you can see that here it says your online store is password protected and we can remove the password by just clicking on remove password and now our new store is published I hope this video helped you learning how to design a Shopify store if it did please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel thank you very much for watching I look forward to seeing you in the next video