Magento bannerslider Extension

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Banner Slider User Guide
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Table of
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION ..................................
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..4 2. HOW TO USE.................................
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........5 3. HOW TO CONFIGURE ....................
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......6 3.1. Manage Banner Slider
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.........................6 3.2. Display Banners
on Homepage/CMS Pages ............................
............10 3.3. Manage Settings
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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 dont 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
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2. HOW TO USE
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- 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
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3. HOW TO CONFIGURE
3.1. Manage Banner Slider The admin can
easily manage banners by logging in the
BackendgtBanner SlidergtManage Banners
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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
banners information.
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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.
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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.
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It is also possible to delete a banner while
editing it by clicking on Delete Banner button on
Edit banner page.
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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 CMSgtPages gtManage Content 2. Select the row
Homepage
3. 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'
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4. Click on Save Page button to complete
- To display banners on other CMS pages you may
follow these steps 1. Go to Menu CMSgtPages 2.
Select the CMS page which you want to edit 3. Go
to the tab Content and insert the code paragraph
above to the position in which you want to
place banners 4. Click on Save Page button to
complete
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3.3. Manage Settings
To manage settings, you can login the back-end
and select SystemgtConfiguration. After that
choose tab Banner Slider then change all the
parameters as you want.