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    Aarcade’s Big Cartel Theme Features

    The theme feature list includes all items that can be easily implemented via in-built controls, without any coding knowledge required.

    Denotes a recently added theme feature

    Denotes an advanced theme feature that is unique to Aarcade

    Denotes a theme feature that we are currently developing – this feature will become available to current theme owners via a future update

    Theme Build

    Professional grade, built from scratch code for all theme files including supporting CSS and JavaScript.

    Precise and elegant design ensures the focus is on your products, content and brand.

    Industry-leading unmatched Big Cartel theme features (see following list sections) allows expansion of a Big Cartel shop to a complete web site solution.

    Backed by Aarcade Support, the most extensive support site for custom Big Cartel themes, with articles that are easy to follow regardless of experience level.

    The easiest and most supported Big Cartel theme installation process, including step-by-step instructions and theme file installation tool.

    Professional grade automated SEO (click to expand).
    • Big Cartel in-built SEO (i.e. robots.txt, site map, etc.) fully supported.
    • Coding validated to latest HTML standards.
    • SEO structured page titles.
    • Canonical links for custom domain users, consolidates SEO under the custom domain to avoid duplicate content penalties.
    • Auto page and product meta description with fall back to default.
    • Auto page and product meta tags for Facebook and Google improves SEO and content sharing.
    • Easily customisable meta titles and descriptions (see Social, SEO & Promotion section below).

    Theme assets (styles, scripts, etc.) hosted for life at no additional cost to make installation easier and asset updates automatic. Assets hosted from highest grade world-wide content delivery network ensuring optimum load time and availability.

    Layout, Colours & Fonts

    Edit your background, text and element colours.

    Edit your font faces, sizes and styles.

    Add a background image.

    Apply Aarcade’s free style blocks to change your shop layout appearance, or use them for inspiration in creating your own unique layout.

    Enable / disable a responsive layout that will automatically adjust to optimise viewing on different mobile devices, e.g. iPhone, iPad, etc.

    Dynamic mobile menu interface for small screen devices, e.g. smart phones, iPods, etc.

    Header, Footer & Menus

    Upload your own header image and it will replace your site title and the header area will adjust to your image size automatically.

    Set header text / image alignment and link URL.

    Add custom links and assign page links to your first, second and footer menu or hide page links from your menus completely.

    Control the location and edit the text for your “Back To Site”, “Home” and “View All” links.

    Add a “Gift Certificate” link to your menu and edit the available certificate values.

    Display or hide the “Made with Aarcade” and/or “Powered by Big Cartel” links in your footer.

    Add custom footer text with tools to easily display your store name, the current year and the copyright symbol (for displaying a copyright statement).

    Display or hide your shop search bar.

    Display or hide “Newest” and / or “Top Selling” product menus, on the home page or all pages, at the top or bottom of the page.

    Products & Categories

    Choose from four options for product thumbnail grid image size / number of columns.

    Create unlimited product categories. A category link is automatically added to the main category menu as soon as the first product is added to it.

    Create unlimited product subcategories. A subcategory link is automatically added to the sub-category menu as soon as the first product is added to it.

    Hide categories from the menu, from general products pages or completely.

    Use auto-categories to automatically display categories for sold, on-sale, coming-soon, top-selling, most-popular, newest, under $X or over $X products.

    Display product default price, price range or minimum price with “from” prefix.

    Display category descriptions.

    Control the number of products displayed per page.

    Activate Artist categories, edit the Artist label (e.g. change it to “Brands”) and a drop-down menu is automatically added to the menu of your choice.

    Choose to automatically hide sold out products. Choose to hide sold out and/or coming soon pricing.

    Hide product titles and pricing to display product image thumbnails only.

    Display custom text labels with products and enable / disable price and add to cart button, e.g. “Price On Application”.

    Image grid automatic per-row height adjustment based upon product image dimensions with option to collapse height

    Content & Custom Pages

    Create unlimited custom pages. A custom page link is automatically added to the shop menu once it is created.

    Create unlimited sub-page menus. A sub-page link is added under the user defined parent page link in the shop menu.

    Insert a slide show on the home page or any other page. Set multiple options for slide appearance, navigation and linking.

    Use content shortcodes to easily create complex page content like columns, image galleries and slideshows.

    Use the image-zoom light box viewer anywhere to load images or web pages. Choose the light box style.

    Easily insert custom content into home, products, category, product and cart pages without needing to edit any code.

    Use Aarcade’s extra page templates to easily create advanced custom pages.

    Home Page

    Display a single page of products or all products (paginated), in featured order (regular, newest, top-selling or most-viewed) or from a specified category.

    Hide the theme layout on your home page to display only your content (e.g. show a slide show or image only) to create a splash or “enter” page.

    Display custom content (e.g. slide show, image, etc.) with, or instead of, your home page products.

    Product Page

    Choose small or large image product page layout.

    Display or hide “← Prev” and “Next →” product links.

    Display other product thumbnails from the same category (i.e. related products), on-sale, top-selling, newest or in regular order. Choose location of thumbnails.

    Display or hide product sharing tools including Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet, Google Plus and more. Log analytics for sharing tool use.

    Display or hide product inventory chart.

    Display or hide quantity input for adding more than one item to the cart from the product page.

    Product image thumbnails for image navigation. Choose the location of image navigation; left, middle or right.

    Enable / disable product image transition fade effect.

    Choose product option selector style; standard drop-down, fancy drop-down or list (radio). Add a label with custom text, e.g. “Choose your colour:”.

    Enable / disable product image pop-up full size image viewer.

    Set the location of ”add to cart” controls to above or below the product description

    Cart Page

    Allow discount codes to be entered before checkout. Discount code is displayed after entry.

    Display custom messages on the cart page before checkout.

    Enable / disable auto update of cart after customer selects their shipping country.

    Checkout Page

    Display a custom message during checkout process.

    Customise the “Return to Merchant” text link displayed to the customer after the checkout process and/or specify an alternate return URL.

    Customise the “Add special instructions to merchant.” label for the note field provided during checkout or hide the note field completely.

    Disable the request for a shipping address during checkout.

    Specify the PayPal payment page style.

    Success Page

    Customise the message displayed to customers returning to your store after successfully placing an order.

    Contact Page

    Customise the message introducing your in-built contact form as well as the message displayed after a message has been submitted.

    Display your street address, postal address and/or additional information, e.g. store hours, phone number, etc.

    Display a Google Map for your physical location as a static image or interactive map (with zoom and pan controls).

    Maintenance Page

    Customise the message displayed to visitors while your shop is in maintenance mode.