www.RicksRC.com

Here is my latest attempt at using HikaShop for an e-commerce website. www.RicksRC.com is currently using the Starter version with the shopping cart turned off (catalog mode). Once the client has reviewed all product prices, configured taxes, shipping and payment systems the cart will be turned back on. Currently we have a number of model cars/trucks and accessories cataloged, but will be adding several thousand replacement parts during the next phase of development. Comments welcome!

Regards,
Ed

That's really nice

Do you have some advice on the products ?
I got interested and read a bit on the products. Do you know the differences between nitro and electric ( speed, number of hours before the fuel tank or the batteries cell run out ) ? I couldn't find that info on the website so, as a novice in RC, I'm a bit lost as to which model I would choose.

Thanks for the comment Nicolas!

I'm certainly no expert on RC cars but have learned a lot while building this website and talking to local guys that race them. Runtime on any of them is measured in minutes, not hours, and from what I've been told, is about the same for electric or nitro (15 minutes more or less depending on how hard you drive it). The higher-end electrics are faster and quicker than nitro, and seem to be the preferred power source for serious racers these days. But from a novice perspective, they are ALL way faster than my ability to control. With nitro, you just fill the tank and off you go, no hassle with charging batteries all the time.

Personally, I own the Slayer Pro 4X4, which is Nitro powered and out-of-the-box has an advertised top speed of 45mph. Not all that fast you might think, but at 1/10 scale, that is a little like driving down the road at 450mph! Some of the electrics advertise speeds in excess of 70mph stock and close to 100 with some tweaking!

I guess the main disadvantage (some would say) with nitro is they require tuning of the engine with changes in weather and altitude and they have more parts to tinker with, but for me, that was part of the attraction. I'm sure at some point down the road I may own more of these things and electric power will probably be in the mix, but right now, I'm just trying to remember which way to turn the wheel when it's coming at me!

You better get one and see what it's all about! Lots of Fun!

Regards,
Ed

Thank you for your explanation. That helps a lot.
Now, I just need to find some time to be able to play with that

Hi,

Nice website.

I was wondering how you make the product page look like that, with the tabs (especially the specs).

Greets, Niqui

Hello Niqui,

Thanks for the comment!

There are a number of Joomla plugins for creating tabs in articles, just search the JED for "tabs". I used Tabs & Slides from Joomlaworks on this site. Slides were used on the Download tab of many of the products although not all products have that tab at this point.

I'm not sure which Specs tab you were talking about. All product information on this site came directly from the manufacturers website (with permission) and for the specs, they used a table styled with CSS. On some of the earlier products entered I used an unstyled table and on later ones I simply did a screen grab from the manufacturers website and inserted the image on the page. Those are probably the ones you asked about. The same effect could be done using a table with CSS, and I may go back and do that later to speed up page load times, but for now, we just wanted to get the site online in a hurry.

Regards,
Ed

Ed,
I'm also interested in implementing tabs inside HikaShop. I want to do something similar for my product pages, where I display additional images, related products, details, and some other material inside tabs.

I currently use Tabber by NoNumber. Generally, is it straightforward to integrate something like this into HikaShop pages?

Thanks,
Matthew

Using tabs in HikaShop's products description is really easy. You just have to use the tabs tags in the description of your products and have the tabs plugin published. For Tabber, it's explained on their documentation:
{tab=Tab Title 1}
Your text...
{tab=Tab Title 2}
Your text...
{/tabs}

Nicolas,
Thanks for the reply. I use Tabber all the time and like it a lot. But I'd like to put HikaShop related items or product galleries into it.

Does the new version let us plug HikaShop elements into Tabber like that?

Thanks,
Matthew

You could already do that with previous versions of HikaShop.
You need to use the load position plugin for that:
- create your module and set it in a special position X of your template which is not displayed in your template.
- publish the load position plugin
- in the description have something like that:
{tab=Tab Title 1}
{loadposition X}
{tab=Tab Title 2}
Your text...
{/tabs}

docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_put_a_module_inside_an_article%3F

Nicolas,
For some reason, I didn't realize I could just do this with HikaShop. Being able to just integrate existing Joomla modules into HikaShop is terrific.

I'm just now beginning to migrate my existing cart pages into HikaShop, so still discovering simple things.

Thanks,
Matthew

Awesome design Ed!

And thanks for all the info on tabs in Hikashop guys, definately going to give that a shot.

Thanks for the comment plantpotphil and sorry I took so long to respond. I haven't been to the forum in a while and it's a chore to get caught up with all that has changed. One of these days I'll update my sites to the the latest Hikashop version, but both this one and www.HighDesertVideo.com are working well for my purposes on earlier releases. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Hikashop has proven to be a great product with the best support anyone could expect! Thanks Nicolas and crew!

Regards,
Ed

Nice site! Colors are in harmony. What plugin do you use in Contact Us link? Where it shows the phone number?

Thanks for the feedback Olsen.

This site uses the Joomla Contact Component that is included with the default Joomla 1.5.x installation. I often use the Contact Enhanced Component by Douglas Machado on sites, but for reasons I can't recall right now, chose to use the built-in Joomla component on this one.

Regards,
Ed

Out of curiosity what plugin are u using to get that really great output..

Cheers! Creating websites are fun and less headache these days. Plus great output.

@Spacehangout- it's Joomla Contact Component

Hey Nicolas!

I would like to do tabs as well, but more of an automatic thing for products. I mean, we load the product information, and the tabs are automatically filled in. It would be great if there were a tab for Details, Downloads, Reviews and possible the ability for custom tabs.

Chris

Hi,

Here is a thread which explains how to do that using tabber :
www.hikashop.com/ja/forum/4-how-to/52260...on-product-page.html

Tabber can be found here:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-di.../articles-tabs/14493