Magento banner slider extension

“Banner Slider” User Guide

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................42. HOW TO USE...........................................................................................53. HOW TO CONFIGURE ............................................................................63.1. Manage Banner Slider ...........................................................................63.2. Display Banners on Homepage/CMS Pages ........................................103.3. Manage Settings ...................................................................................12

1. INTRODUCTION

The header is a very important aspect of any website; first and foremost an online store as it is mostly viewed by the visitors. So why don’t you make it more impressive by adding an image slider for your advertisement or promotions there? With our Banner Slider, you may place and run banners as a slider at the top of not only your homepage but each category page as well.

Outstanding features:

For customers:

- Ability to see banners as a slider of images on the Homepage or on each category page.

For admin:

- Images can be add/remove from the admin panel with the following information: - Title, URL and description - Allow uploading images and links leading to the detail pages - Ability to set the delay time of each image - Easily add, edit or delete a banner - Allow exporting the list of banners to CSV/XML files - Able to mass change status or delete a list of banners

Others:- Easy to install and configure - Compatible with Magento Community version 1.4.x.x, 1.5.x.x, 1.6.x.x, 1.7.x.x and 1.8.x.x also

2. HOW TO USE

- When the customers access your site, they will see the slider on the Homepage as below: Or on each category page, customers can also see the banners as the slider of images:

3. HOW TO CONFIGURE

3.1. Manage Banner Slider

The admin can easily manage banners by logging in the Backend>Banner Slider>Manage Banners

A list of banners will be shown as follows:

The system provides you with the following functions:

- Display the banner grid- Add, edit or delete a banner- Export the list of banners to CSV/XML files- Mass change status or delete the list of banners

- To add a banner, you can click on Add Banner button. If you want to edit a banner, you may click on Edit button corresponding with the product which you want to edit. Then it will display a form to fill the banner’s information.

Banners can be displayed either on your Homepage or category pages. You can totally choose the category pages to place banners by clicking on tab Category. After that, click on the box beside each category which you want to show banners.

The admin is provided the ability to delete a lot of banners at the same time by choosing banners that you want to delete in the banner grid then selecting Delete option in the box.

It is also possible to delete a banner while editing it by clicking on Delete Banner button on Edit banner page.

3.2. Display Banners on Homepage/CMS Pages

- In case you want to have banners displayed on the Homepage you can take steps below:1. Go to menu CMS>Pages >Manage Content2. Select the row Homepage3. Go to the tab Content and insert the code paragraph below to the position in which you want to place banners.

{{block type='bannerslider/bannerslider' template='bannerslider/bannerslider.phtml'}}

4. Click on Save Page button to complete

- To display banners on other CMS pages you may follow these steps:1. Go to Menu CMS>Pages2. Select the CMS page which you want to edit3. Go to the tab Content and insert the code paragraph above to the position in which you want to place banners4. Click on Save Page button to complete

3.3. Manage Settings

To manage settings, you can login the back-end and select System>Configuration. After that choose tab Banner Slider then change all the parameters as you want.