Spicing up your Shopify store this Christmas with Christmas light effect
What is Christmas if you haven’t got your lights up? Follow below mentioned steps to place flashing lights on your website.
Log in to your Shopify store. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes. Click Actions > Edit code.
Step 1: Create christmas-light.liquid file
In the Snippets directory, click Add a new snippet. In popup appear: Give your snippet the name christmas-light and click Create snippet.
In the online code editor, paste the content from the below text.
1 2 3 4 5 | <ul class="lightrope"> {% for i in (1..50) %} <li></li> {% endfor %} </ul> |
Step 2: Create christmas-light.scss file
In the Assets directory, click Add a new asset. In popup appear: Go to Create a blank file tab, give your asset the name christmas-light, choose .scss and click Add asset.
In the online code editor, paste the content from the below text.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 | /*** Huynh Mai Anh Kiet wWw.ShopifyTips.Com - wWw.AnhKiet.Info ***/ $globe-width: 12px; $globe-height: 28px; $globe-spacing: 40px; $globe-spread: 3px; $light-off-opacity: 0.4; .lightrope { text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; z-index: 1; margin: -15px 0 0 0; padding: 0; pointer-events: none; width: 100%; li { position: relative; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-iteration-count:infinite; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: block; width: $globe-width; height: $globe-height; border-radius: 50%; margin: $globe-spacing/2; display: inline-block; background: rgba(0,247,165,1); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(0,247,165,1); animation-name: flash-1; animation-duration: 2s; &:nth-child(2n+1) { background: rgba(0,255,255,1); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(0,255,255,0.5); animation-name: flash-2; animation-duration: 0.4s; } &:nth-child(4n+2) { background: rgba(247,0,148,1); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(247,0,148,1); animation-name: flash-3; animation-duration: 1.1s; } &:nth-child(odd) { animation-duration: 1.8s; } &:nth-child(3n+1) { animation-duration: 1.4s; } &:before { content: ""; position: absolute; background: #222; width: ($globe-width - 2); height: $globe-height/3; border-radius: 3px; top: (0 - ($globe-height/6)); left: 1px; } &:after { content: ""; top: (0 - $globe-height/2); left: $globe-width - 3; position: absolute; width: $globe-spacing + 12; height: ($globe-height/3 * 2); border-bottom: solid #222 2px; border-radius: 50%; } &:last-child:after { content: none; } &:first-child { margin-left: -$globe-spacing; } } } @keyframes flash-1 { 0%, 100% { background: rgba(0,247,165,1); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(0,247,165,1);} 50% { background: rgba(0,247,165,$light-off-opacity); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(0,247,165,0.2);} } @keyframes flash-2 { 0%, 100% { background: rgba(0,255,255,1); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(0,255,255,1);} 50% { background: rgba(0,255,255,$light-off-opacity); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(0,255,255,0.2);} } @keyframes flash-3 { 0%, 100% { background: rgba(247,0,148,1); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(247,0,148,1);} 50% { background: rgba(247,0,148,$light-off-opacity); box-shadow: 0px $globe-height/6 $globe-width*2 $globe-spread rgba(247,0,148,0.2);} } |
Step 3: Edit theme.liquid file
In the Layouts folder, locate and click on your theme.liquid file to open it in the online code editor. In the online code editor:
Add the below code before close </head> tag.
1 | {{ 'christmas-light.scss.css' | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }} |
Add the below code after open <body> tag.
1 | {% include 'christmas-light' %} |
