Customize header
What is the Header section?
The Header section is more than just the first section visible on your website. It's one of the more powerful sections available in your theme and can dramatically change the look and feel of your site.
Key elements in your Header section include:
Logo blocks - These enable you to feature brand assets, with PNG or SVG format highly recommended. The theme can swaps between multiple color formats for image overlays, ensuring optimal logo visibility on dark or bright background.
Navigation - Swiftly integrate the menu items created for your Shopify shop within the Shopify admin.
Mega menus - This feature is ideal for presenting a larger number of menu items in multiple columns, deviating from the traditional dropdown style. Most of our themes offer mega menu options in the header.
Header layout - Customize the appearance of your navigation, logo, social links, and more. Depending on the theme you use, you'll find different layout options that can significantly transform your shop's look.
Header style - Options for a sticky or a standard menu style.
Language and currency selectors - All our themes support Shopify's multi-currency and multi-language features. Once enabled in your shop, you can display these 'selectors' in the header, allowing manual switching between languages and currencies shown on your shop.
Best practices for optimizing the Header section
Keep it clean - Avoid clutter. Only keep what's really important in your header. Remember, less is better.
Focus on navigation - Your header is like the entrance to your website. People start their journey here. Make sure your most important links are easy to see and use.
Stay true to your brand - Use colors, fonts, and logos in your header that match your brand and how your website looks overall.
Use high-quality images - Your theme lets you control how big your logo is on both computers and mobile devices. Pick the best quality PNG files you can. Your theme will make sure they look good on all screen sizes.