2 Responsive Open Cart Themes

by Ezwebdesigner on October 15, 2012

If you’re using opencart and looking for a nice responsive theme, check out Sellegance or Shoppica 2.  I prefer Sellegance, the developer has but great about fixing any issues and even integrating 3rd party extensions.  Shoppica 2 might be the most widely used open cart theme. Many extensions have special versions to comply with Shoppica’s so it might save you a few headaches over Sellegance in that regard.

Brief overview of Sellegance:

  • Compatible with OpenCart versions 1.5.2.1, 1.5.3.1 and 1.5.4.1, as there are NO modifications in core files.
  • Built on HTML5
  • Uses the Twitter Boostrap Framework.
  • Fully responsive: looks great on laptops, tablets and mobiles devices.
  • Choose your own colors and backgrounds: customize your site colors and upload your own backgrounds from the admin panel easily.
  • Custom homepage slideshow: fully responsive too.
  • Elegant and clean design which is enhanced by some pretty jQuery effects.
  • Clean HTML /CSS: if you want to digg in the code, you will find it easy and well organized.
  • SEO optimized. Semantic, clean code. Search engines will love your site.
  • Cross browser compatible: it works fine under any modern, major browser(IE7+, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera).
  • Google fonts: you can select them in the backend.

Brief overview of Shoppica:

  • Compatible with OpenCart 1.5.2.x,  1.5.3.x and 1.5.4.x.
  • Responsive layout – you shop will appear nicely on every mobile phone and tablet.
  • Unlimited color combinations; full control over the colors of the site elements; Every category and subcategory can have different color scheme!
  • Custom background textures and images – you can upload your own. You can set different background for every category.
  • SEO -ready.
  • 2 different site design styles: fixed and full width
  • Custom fonts with option to choose subsets for every font (google webfonts). You can choose different fonts for every installed language
  • Fully localized
  • Horizontal navigation with unlimited subcategory levels
  • Shows brands for every top level category in horizontal navigation and creates a page with the category products filtered by the selected brand
  • Custom cart menu dropdown
  • Jquery enhanced user interface – tabs, lightbox photo preview, form validation
  • Footer information – short info, contact details, twitter and facebook widgets with multilanguage support
  • Enable / disable default OpenCart features such as Wishlist, Compare, Returns etc.
  • Category sitemap in the footer
  • Multi-Store ready – different theme settings for every store in a single installation

You can’t go wrong with either theme and the price for Sellegance, $30 and Shoppica will set you back $40.

Disclaimer. I am an affiliate of themeforest and receive a small commission if you buy either theme mentioned in this post. I have used both themes on live websites, you can see Sellegance in action here, http://cobrabraid.com  and Shoppica at http://fairydustshop.com.

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Another Webdesigner “Helper” Resource

by Ezwebdesigner on May 25, 2012

Yet another resource I stumbled upon a few months ago that is a great help to web and graphic designers is MightyDeals.com. I figured if I was going to mention this resource and they offered an affiliate program, why not join? So this brief article does provide monetary compensation to me if you click on a link and buy an item.

Might Deals has a random deal of the week set up with some deals running longer. The items they offer are vary greatly with many WordPress and photoshop related. You can pick up some great themes for a very low price, just read the fine print because some of the deals are at sites that offer premium memberships and the mighty deals discount is usually for a few particular themes at a site that might offer dozens of themes.  I’ve seen ebook, video tutorials, photoshop brushes, fonts and software all at special prices. I’ve bought 2 or 3 items so far and happy with each item and usually check our their deals once a week.

 

See their latest offers below:

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