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Magento Enterprise Solutions How to Create Banners & Banner Rotator Widgets inside Templates

By GRAYBOX Alumni

Magento Enterprise Solutions has a remarkable set of features including the ability to manage banner advertising natively without the use of any add-ons. This gives you the flexibility to add banners, custom HTML, and other unique blocks of code and automatically tie the display to any number of promotional rules.

Once you have the core pieces of functionality installed, the rest are easily customized within the admin. Here are the basic steps to get the custom content to display in your template:

1. Determine where you want to display the content, and locate that location in the theme layout xml files

2. Add the text link to the layout xml

XML

3. Add the HTML to your phtml template file

pHTML

4. Create a Magento banner

Category Topper Banner
Banner Graphic

5. Create Banner Rotator Widget

Widget Settings
Widget Properties
Widget Options

Clear caches and find your template image in your front-end web site.

With this basic installation complete, the possibilities are virtually limitless.

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