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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 19, 2026

How to Customize Shopify's Prestige Theme Without Breaking It

Prestige is one of the better premium themes in the Shopify Theme Store. It looks expensive, it handles large catalogs well, and it ships with the kind of editorial layouts that make a fashion or homeware brand look established on day one. After 14+ years building on Shopify, I still recommend it to the right merchant. The trouble is that “the right merchant” usually wants it to do something slightly different from how it ships, and that is where people get into difficulty.

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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 15, 2026

Shopify vs BigCommerce 2026: Which Should You Choose?

Shopify and BigCommerce are the two big hosted ecommerce platforms, plus on paper they look similar: both host your store, handle security, plus skip the maintenance headache of an open-source setup. The differences are real but live in the details. We build on Shopify and migrate stores from BigCommerce, so here is a fair read on where each one fits.

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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 15, 2026

Shopify vs WooCommerce 2026: An Honest Comparison

Shopify or WooCommerce is the first real fork in the road for anyone building a serious store, plus the comparison is usually written by people selling one side. We have built on Shopify for 14+ years and we have migrated plenty of stores off WooCommerce, so here is the honest version: where each one genuinely wins, plus who should actually pick which.

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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 11, 2026

Digital Product Passports: What Shopify Merchants Need to Know

If you sell physical products into the EU, there is a regulation working its way toward your product pages, and most Shopify merchants have not heard of it yet. It is called the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, ESPR for short, and the part that will land on your desk is the Digital Product Passport.

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