Skeleton theme

The Skeleton theme is a simplified Shopify theme, to be used as a "blank slate" starting point for theme designers.

Features:

• Almost no theme settings. Ready to be customized any way you want.
• Only ~500 lines of CSS including comments.
• Despite its 500 lines of CSS code, it is responsive and has styled drop-down menus.
• Include SVG images to style select elements and cart icon.
• Commented code to teach you Liquid concepts in practice.

Demo:

• Demo store

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Getting started

1. Download the latest version
2. or clone the git repo: git clone https://github.com/Shopify/skeleton-theme.git

Basic structure

├── assets
│   └── Javascript, CSS, and theme images
├── config
│   └── custom Theme Settings
├── layout
│   ├── theme.liquid
│   └── optional alternate layouts
├── snippets
│   └── optional custom code snippets
├── templates
│   ├── 404.liquid
│   ├── article.liquid
│   ├── blog.liquid
│   ├── cart.liquid
│   ├── collection.liquid
│   ├── index.liquid
│   ├── page.liquid
│   ├── product.liquid
│   └── search.liquid
│   └── list-collections.liquid

Additional resources

• Free workshops: Sign up for a free Shopify For Designers workshop in a city near you.
• Theme Documentation: Learn more about Liquid and theme templates.
• Desktop Theme Editor: For Mac OS X users, we recommend our free app to sync theme files in development.
• Need more help? Ask a question in our Design Forums.