Story is a modern, bold Shopify theme designed explicitly for audacious brands. The theme features impeccably designed grids and modular layouts with striking features to boost the shopping experience.
Story Shopify theme is additionally a powerhouse for conversion-driving features and presents a loaded set of promotional elements, including banners, promo tiles, popups, slideshows, etc., with impactful CTAs.
Story also exhibits many white spaces to help you maintain contrasting visuals on your eCommerce store.
Best Suited for Niches/Industries
Story Shopify theme is a visual marvel ideal for niches requiring large, mind-boggling imagery. The theme thus is best suited for Fashion & Clothing, Jewelry, Home Decor, Sports & Outdoor, Swimwear & Lingerie, Health & Wellness, Fitness Products, Custom Products, Beauty & Cosmetics, Grooming Products, Watches, Shoes & Footwear, Grocery, Sunglasses & Opticals, Food Products & Drinks etc.
Best Suited for Inventory Size/s
Store Shopify theme is crafted for stores with small to medium catalog sizes. Additionally, the theme can be effortlessly tailored to suit the requirements of one product store, thus making it one of the most sort after Shopify themes for single product stores.
Design, Features and Customization
Story theme comes loaded with a superior range of flexible functional and design elements for seamless store build. Additionally, the theme features 4 exclusively designed pre-built demo stores for inspiration.
Some of the many stunning features that Story Shopify theme houses include – Multiple layouts for header sections supported by slideshows & brand videos, color swatches, Mega menu, In-menu promos, Animations, Press coverage, FAQ section, Product tabs, Product reviews, Lookbooks, Image galleries, Slideshows, Promo banners, Promo tiles, Promo popups and many more.
Home Page
- Story Shopify theme presents a clean and elegantly designed header section with full-width slideshows and brand videos
- Powerful menu section with mega menus, in-menu promos, announcement bar, slide-down search bar, language & currency selectors, etc.
- Offers multiple grid-based layouts for featured collections and products with persuasive CTAs/buttons
- Minimal featured product listing with sliding & static effects
- Product listing includes high-resolution images, image transition effects, color swatches, product reviews, product badges, and trust badges
- Other features on the home page include – promo elements (banners, tiles & popups), product videos, an FAQ section, featured blogs, newsletter signups, lookbooks, and many more.
Collection Pages
- Minimal and visually contrasting set of collection page layouts with a focus on product imagery
- Header section with featured images and text block
- Grid-based product listing supported by a robust set of sidebar filters and dropdown sorters
- Supports a varied set of layouts for featured collections, promo banners, and promo tiles with impactful buttons
- Pagination-based navigation and supports full-width product videos on collection pages
Product Pages
- Clean and straightforward product page layouts with large imagery, transition effects, and neatly laid image thumbnails
- Functional features include – color swatches, product reviews, variant info, size charts, information drawers, product tabs, shipping/delivery info, social icons, etc.
- Other features include – FAQ section, product review & testimonials, specification & detailed specifications info block, recommended products, featured info elements, and more.
Other Prominent Features
- In-store Pickups
- PreOrder
- Color Swatches
- Animations
- SlideShows
- Image Galleries
- Product Videos
- FAQ Section
- Look Books
Performance
While the Story Shopify theme is impeccable with design, features, and customization, it needs more performance. The theme scores a ‘B’ grade on overall performance with high CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift). However, the Story theme has low LCP and TBT scores. With moderate effort on speed optimization, you should be ready to proceed with the Story Shopify theme. The test results of our performance tests are as below.
| SI No. | Performance Matric | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Performance Score | 84% |
| 2 | Structure | 98% |
| 3 | Largest Content Paint (LCP) | 347 msec |
| 4 | Total Blocking Time (TBT) | 56 msec |
| 5 | Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) | 0.74 |
Successful Stores using Story Theme
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The Review
Story Shopify Theme
Story Shopify theme is crafted for media-focused, bold, and audacious brands. If you, too, fall under the category, go ahead and give it a try!
PROS
- Story Shopify theme comes with visually enriching and sleek design layouts
- Highly customization friendly with drag and drop editor and 4 distinctive pre-built stores for inspiration
- Loaded with a wide range of conversion boosts, including many promotional elements
- Offers Unlimited FREE trial with FREE theme downloads
CONS
- Misses out on the following features – Breadcrumbs, Countdown timer, and Image hotspots.
- Misses out on Quick View & Quick Buy features
Review Breakdown
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