GLYDE America

BigCommerce Developer ยท E-Commerce

On behalf of We Are Elevated

A BigCommerce re-theme for GLYDE America, rebuilding the homepage and product detail page as a custom Cornerstone theme.

In active development. This project has not launched publicly yet, so there is no live link to share.

Overview

GLYDE America sells on BigCommerce, and the storefront is being re-themed as a custom Cornerstone child theme covering the homepage and the product detail page. The build is constrained by the platform in ways that shaped the architecture: theme settings are capped, product families are not modelled natively, and the catalog carries inconsistencies that predate the redesign. The work is scoped so the client can apply the template to the rest of the catalog and own their own content afterwards.

Technical highlights

  • BigCommerce caps theme settings at 64KB minified, which the settings file was already near, so repeating editorial content moved to Page Builder regions instead of theme settings.
  • Product families and accent colours resolve from metafields rather than hard-coded URL maps.
  • A catalog audit against the live store surfaced two purchase paths to the same 36-pack, flagged to the client as a data bug independent of the redesign.

What shipped

  • Custom Cornerstone child theme
  • Merchant-editable content without code changes
  • Category carousels from a GraphQL front-matter query
  • Metafield-driven per-product theming

Stack

BigCommerce, Stencil, Cornerstone, Handlebars, SCSS, GraphQL, Page Builder

Screens

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