failing to get the shop right

Hi,

First, make sure that you read that tutorial on displaying content on your front end.

The best thing you could do for us to help would be that you put your website accessible online so that we can see what's not correct and give you precise directions to solve the display problem.

Otherwise, please send screenshots of the hikashop options of your menus and modules (via the menus Display->Content menus/modules) and tell us what is not working (which menus/modules aren't ? and what is not working ? ). That will already help us understand the problem.