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!

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

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