Is Hikashop falling behind? I find no good templates for it!

Now I love Hikashop, I subscribe to the business version, I even renewed it last year, and previously bought Hikamarket as well.

But I have never installed any of them on a live site, never.

Problem is, I cannot find a good template, and I have several. The best one I found was Storefront from Gavick, but they stopped supporting it. There will be no support for Hikashop version 3.

I have memberships in several template clubs, such as Rockettheme, Gavick and more, but neither of them offers specific styling for Hikashop. Templaza does, and I have a subscription, but the quality is simply not good enough on mobile phones.

I have asked other template developers, such as Rockettheme and Inspire Theme, but they have no plans to develop anything for Hikashop. They mention other e-commerce solutions, such as J2Store, and of course Virtuemart, for which I find several good templates.

My problem with Hikashop is the lack of support from template developers. There is the Hikashop styling pack, but this is obsolete and needs renewal.

My suggestion: Please develop a new style pack that focus on the world of mobile devices, and please do it now. This should be an urgent priority. Hikashop needs to be independent of template developers. As it is now Hikashop has an appearance that seems to have fallen behind.

Don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t write this if I did not think Hikashop is a great product, with tons of potential. But as it is now your dependence on external template developers is hurting your otherwise excellent product.

Another thing I would like to mention (important to me but not for most users) is a shipping plugin for Norway. I find that others have asked for it in the forums but only solution seems to pay a developer to make it. That is a pity. It is already available for other Joomla e-commerce solutions (Virtuemart, J2Store and more) so why not Hikashop? I realize this is not going to be a priority, but I do hope that styling will. I know you have plans to make it, but again, I urge you to make this top priority.

Regards from a customer making his first post

Nicolas, thank you for your thorough reply.

I have been testing other e-commerce solutions for Joomla, such as E-shop, J2Store and Virtuemart, all in their latest versions, but have decided to go with Hikashop 3.

This is due to your upcoming new style pack, which I see as an essential part of Hikashop. In the meantime I have tried myself to have a go at it, looking for a "clean" and mobile friendly appearance.

I have enclosed a screenshot and am pretty satisfied with it, except for the small images. I want to place them to the right of the main image (instead of below it). On full screen it works ok (see attached screenshot) but as soon as I change resolution, the images are all over the place

Now, I am certainly not a programmer, but I am familiar with less, and perhaps @media screen is the way to go. I don't know, but to get them on the right side I styled them with the following:

.hikashop_small_image_div > a {
    float: left;
    margin: 0 3% 3% 0;
    width: 50%;
}

.hikashop_small_image_div {
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateY(-100%);
    margin-right: 10%;
    width: 15%;    
}