The Booster Theme Basics

While building your online store with Booster Theme, you'll use three elements: Sections, Blocks, and Theme settings. Used together, those elements create infinite possibilities for you to create the online store of your dreams.

1. What are sections and blocks?
2. Add your first section
3. Add your first block
4. Play with the section settings and block settings
5. Discover the overall theme settings

What are Sections & Blocks?

Sections are ways to show your content, each section has its own layout and features. With Booster Theme, you'll have over 25 different sections. With these, you can create a bunch of content and show them in different ways. 

Blocks are the content elements that make up your website. The blocks are used inside the sections in order to fill them with content.

As you can see in this image, there are 4 collections blocks inside the List collections section. Blocks fill the section with content.

Adding Your First Section

First, let's start by adding the first section. 

Adding Your First Block 

Section and content blocks are essential to the creation of your online store, make sure to understand the logic behind them and you'll have access to infinite possibilities.

Section settings and block settings

Section settings and block settings are what you'll use to customize your content. You add your content in the settings and have the ability to customize it as you want. Simply click on the item in order to access its settings.

The most important theme settings

Theme settings will completely change the look and feel of your website, use them to brand your website properly and personalize the shop experience for your clients.

By following the list from #1 to #7, you will have set up the core elements of your store "Look & Feel".

1. "Branding" is where you will insert your logo files.
2. "Location, Contact & Social Media" is where to insert your social and contact links.
3. "Layout" will have a big impact on the look & feel of your store. 
4. "Base Colors" are the colors of your store's brand. They are used in many different situations and will keep your store on brand.
5. "Base Typography" is the same concept as the base colors but with your brand typography.
6. "Buttons & Inputs" is where you will set the default shape & style of your buttons. Ex: Round and full vs Squared and empty.
7. "Product & Collection Cards" is where you can choose how to display your products and collections. It's a really important and valuable step towards your store "Look & Feel"

Jump-start Your Design With Demos

We created conversion-optimized demo stores for you, you can install them directly through the Booster Central app. Here is an article about this.

The demos are simply pre-set. Once you chose you can still edit everything, it simply helps you get started and overcome the blank page syndrome.

You got the basics, it's now time to complete your design!

By now, you have added sections and blocks to a page. You have adjusted their settings and begun customizing your design. You know the basics, but there is much more to learn. We have dozens of tutorials and videos on every aspect of the Booster theme. I encourage you to visit our main documentation page and read each one carefully.