The Spiffy Theme Guide

Spiffy Stores use a templating system that incorporates special "liquid" tags that make the dynamic content appear in the templates. All templates use standard HTML & CSS for the layout, and can be opened in any program designed for editing or creating web pages.

A "Theme" is simply all of these HTML & CSS templates along with their images all zipped up in a zip file.

To create your own theme, it's a LOT easier to choose a theme from the theme gallery that's closest to the design you want to achieve, apply it to your site, then download it.

Themes are made up of the following templates:

"Theme.liquid" template file that controls the look of your entire site.
"Index.liquid" template controls the look and content on your home page
"Collection.liquid" template controls the layout of your collection pages
"Blog.liquid" coltrols the layout of your blog pages
"Cart.liquid" coltrols the look of your shopping cart page
"Product.liquid" controls the layout of your product pages
"Page.liquid" controls the layout of all "pages" that aren't controlled by other templates