The Shopify Dawn Theme

Updated September 7, 2021

Free Shopify Theme: Dawn

Shopify announced at Shopify Unite 2021 the launch of Online Store2.0, an improved platform for selling online. With this upgraded platform comes Dawn, the first free Shopify theme with sections on every page. If you are looking to get your Shopify store up and running with minimal coding, the Dawn theme allows you to do so. Shopify’s Dawn theme is modular and you can choose various types of content to build your pages.

Using Dawn:

  1. Start selling online quickly and affordably without having to hire a website developer

  2. Create pages with multiple section types across your entire website, not just the homepage

  3. Improve your store’s speed and overall performance

Customizing Dawn:

Using Shopify is easy and straight forward to use for basic store setup. On Shopify, sections are types of content that make up the layout of each page on your online store. Shopify’s theme settings allow you to change fonts, colors, social media links, and checkout appearance. You can have up to 25 sections on your page and re-arrange and remove them to create a layout you love and fits your store best.

Sections to use Dawn Theme:

  1. Header

  2. Footer

  3. Featured collections

  4. Featured product

  5. Product modal

  6. Image with text

  7. Checkout cart


Shopify is a great platform for reaching customers online.

Here are some of our most popular resources for getting started with Shopify:

Get It Made eCommerce Business 101 Articles

Get It Made Shopify 101 YouTube

Free Apps for Shopify

Printful - sell a variety of products online without investing in inventory (Print on Demand)

Privy - free pop ups to offer discounts and newsletter building with paid premium options

EcoReturns - free automated return request handling and paid premium options for preventing returns

Other Resources for Getting Started

Fiverr - get graphics made, get marketing and other freelance services on ay budget

Carson - get custom Shopify pages and other theme tweaks by the task