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[gringo211985 Friend gringo211985Join date: May 2012Posts: 678Downloads:197Uploads:121 Thanks: 77 Thanked: 123 times in 27 posts]

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Hi there,

I am looking to buy a premium template and I was wondering if someone could list all of the responsive templates that work with virtuemart because I need to create a shop but want the template to be responsive.

Thanks in advance anyone that helps

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#472663

<em>@gringo211985 345869 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi there,

I am looking to buy a premium template and I was wondering if someone could list all of the responsive templates that work with virtuemart because I need to create a shop but want the template to be responsive.

Thanks in advance anyone that helps</blockquote>

Something you could look at here is whether the JA template you like has K2 included and styling for K2 to be responsive. If it has – JA Wall for example, then maybe you can make it work by adding in K2Mart. I tried it briefly, it worked ok but to be honest I couldn’t be bothered to faff around styling VM.

Or you can have a look at JA Mixmaz – which is fully responsive for VM

Personally, I use joomshopping in ecommerce and now have a fully responsive version!

Just some thoughts for you….

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#472669

<em>@swissa 345870 wrote:</em><blockquote>Something you could look at here is whether the JA template you like has K2 included and styling for K2 to be responsive. If it has – JA Wall for example, then maybe you can make it work by adding in K2Mart. I tried it briefly, it worked ok but to be honest I couldn’t be bothered to faff around styling VM.

Or you can have a look at JA Mixmaz – which is fully responsive for VM

Personally, I use joomshopping in ecommerce and now have a fully responsive version!

Just some thoughts for you….</blockquote>

Hi there,

Thanks for the quick reply, I haven’t heard of joomshopping before but I will look into it.

Will joomshopping work with all responsive templates?

Thanks again

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

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I personally do not like Joomshopping mainly due to their lack of support. I find Virtuemart and Hikashop the best of them. Both will work with responsive templates but any third party extension may need some tweaking to be responsive.

As alread suggested above, JA Mixmaz and JA Vintas include support for virtuemart and I have seen the VMelement of the templates supplied with these successfully used with other JA responsive templates.

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#472672

<em>@gringo211985 345879 wrote:</em><blockquote>Will joomshopping work with all responsive templates?</blockquote>

I don’t know!! 😉 I have a question in to JA about their new T3 framework HERE.

Joomshopping comes default with a table based template layout which is not responsive. There is a <div> based template on their site for responsive sites. It’s forum is mostly German language based and a lot of JA Tiris users have found that to be a barrier to using JS. I haven’t! I find in easy, a great product and it gets regularly updated.

To my mind it beats VM hands down!

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

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Great if you speak German but sadliy a lot of do not. We had some other issues with JS but I will not go into it here as that would not be fair. It is a well designed product but does lack.

The biggest problem with any shopping cart for many is whether it has support for the paymenty portals they need to use. Many are restricted by this. For instance until recently Sagepay was not supported by VM. It is now but you need to buy the support from a third party. In Hikashop it is included out of the box which for one customer made his choice easy. Same hoes for almost any shopping solution Joomla or not.

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#472674

<em>@phill luckhurst 345884 wrote:</em><blockquote>Great if you speak German but sadliy a lot of do not. We had some other issues with JS but I will not go into it here as that would not be fair. It is a well designed product but does lack.

The biggest problem with any shopping cart for many is whether it has support for the paymenty portals they need to use. Many are restricted by this. For instance until recently Sagepay was not supported by VM. It is now but you need to buy the support from a third party. In Hikashop it is included out of the box which for one customer made his choice easy. Same hoes for almost any shopping solution Joomla or not.</blockquote>

So for VM which responsive templates would you suggest?

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The easiest would be JA Mixmaz or JA Vintas as they already include VM.

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#472677

Thanks for the help, I like the look of Vintas

[tfosnom Friend tfosnomJoin date: October 2010Posts: 742Downloads:0Uploads:31 Thanks: 145 Thanked: 200 times in 94 posts]

#472739

only good looking truely responsive vm template is from virtueplanet called vp-promart
available as a standalone site or template with overides great support forum fast replies and fully responsive

http://www.virtueplanet.com

cheers Shannon

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#472741

So what is not responsive in the JA ones Shannon?

Good news from Hikashop too as today they launched version 2 which is fully responsive. Not yet tested it myself but so far all the demos look good.

[tfosnom Friend tfosnomJoin date: October 2010Posts: 742Downloads:0Uploads:31 Thanks: 145 Thanked: 200 times in 94 posts]

#472944

Hi Phil
Never seen a QS based vm cart here that’s responsive Phil, Show me a default QS VM based template like Vintas in the online responsinator that is fully responsive please, Vintas certainly isn’t. Adding a VM cart to Nex or a non responsive base template is not going to be a success as the base install is not responsive. I appreciate that JA UNI and Brisk may be able to handle responsive VM carts but I needed something pre prepared that was designed as a responsive cart more than the base is responsive add cart then overrides etc to make a complet solution.

Vintas being a vintage look and feel was just not acceptable for what I need. I went to virtuplanet purely to get something modern looking, guaranteed responsive both as a added template and full QS type standalone install which it does well, and outta the box, as templates should. Also quick support and targeted responses, not many cross postings offering trial & error solutions. This may be due to the small nature of the product range there, (VM Carts only) and limiting support to only members.

I feel JA is so wrapped up in answering support to non members who bleed the club with the free templates, (Purity series, JAT2/3 etc) then clog the forums with support requests. A club member often has to wait some time to get the final solution as the queue builds and shortens .

I often have thought if you don’t pay for it, then the wiki and user guide provides minimal support as reflects the user payment or contribution to the club and that’s that. Perhaps JA should address this issue by offering a yrs support for the free templates at $49 per yr, same as what it costs me to renew to get minor updates and paid support?

At very least club members should have full priority, being there is no support for free stuff if there is an unanswered or unsolved support issue from a paid club member? Then there is always the language barrier with vietnamese speaking support crew, more than once I’ve had to restate the issues, cause they have only glimpsed the post & while trying hard just don’t have the language skills I guess etc.

I think some others here also have had enough of JA peppering every QS with Ja Code for Google analytics, inserting their own live social codes, etc just to increase ja’s presence on the net using clients hosting, domain names to basically backlink while clientstake some to get around to making changes on a live site and removing these things all the while ‘justifying’ these inclusions as per demo and showing how the links work etc?

Re Hikashop. Owning Hikashop and finding the support almost non existant, no real documentation etc, no sample data included I chose to go back with VM. You want to play with hika PM me
cheers Shannon

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#472979

<em>@tfosnom 346254 wrote:</em><blockquote>
I think some others here also have had enough of JA peppering every QS with Ja Code for Google analytics, inserting their own live social codes, etc just to increase ja’s presence on the net using clients hosting, domain names to basically backlink while clientstake some to get around to making changes on a live site and removing these things all the while ‘justifying’ these inclusions as per demo and showing how the links work etc?
</blockquote>

Thats really not the case Shannon, the demo site (excluding some menu items and 3rd party extension) was getting exported as quickstart… We do not manually make the zips for export.. its done automatically, where we select which menu items / extensions to include or exclude….

GA code has been removed in the reported template zips and i would be getting the others checked too for the same.

Its messing up with our GA reports too. so we are not happy about it either.

Arvind

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#473014

Hi Arvind
many thanks for your post and explaination re Google Analyitics code insertions and their removals
Shannon

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