[RELEASE] Vision is out

Posted by tobi — 10:17 PM Feb 20

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Today we are releasing Vision, our tool to help designers create Shopify themes.

Since this is a technical blog I’ll leave the explanations to my fellow pixels regarding what this means for designers and entrepreneurs. Instead I’ll just describe what Vision is composed of on a technical level.

Vision is a ruby application built around webrick. It uses a home cooked servlet class which closely resembles rails for ease of use.

After starting Vision up you will see the /dashboard/ screen on which you can decide where to go from there. If you decide to just check out one of the two default themes a cookie is set and you are taken to the root url / of vision.

All urls in vision match their shopify counterparts. /products/arbor-draft would be /products/arbor-draft on the live server.

Creating a new theme is just as easy on the dashboard. You just provide which theme you want to use as a base and what the name of the new theme should be.

All themes live in the vision/themes folder. Creating a new theme just means copying the existing one in the new folder. You don’t have to use the dashboard for this.

Lastly there is export. Exporting a theme creates a zip file which you can in turn import in Shopify to get your redesign online.

Technically one of the most nifty things about vision is the designers bar. This blue bar at the bottom of the browser is injected into your template and allows you to freely switch around between themes for comparison and move to all the different possible templates.

So run, don’t walk, to the vision page and snatch one of those iPod Nano’s we are giving out.

P.S: Please digg

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