Confused about Banners

[pb4]

Hi,

I want to add a sidebox which will appear on all pages (right side). I have been searching and reading through the forum and think the best way is to add a banner? Is this right?

If so how do I go about doing this so that it is static and always displayed?

Can I have banners then be a link through to a page?

Thanks?

If there is a tutorial or another thread I have missed happy to follow that to save people time - just point me in the right direction - thanks

[jammin320]

What do you want that side-box to do? There are several that are already built in ZenCart that may meet your needs too.

[afo]

I don't use banners, but check around in the admin under tools->banner manager.

Also take a peek at https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=80

[TShooters]

Did you see the banner tutorial here?:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=80

( You're fast, afo! :) )

[pb4]

Ok...So I used the banner all one and added an image to test and this is what I got

http://www.ampmgraphicsprint.com/shop/

Firstly how do I get the image to display (how do I know what size etc?)

Second - Do I have to have the heading 'Sponsers'? How can I get rid of this?
I want to add a couple of boxes below each other with graphics advertising stuff within the site.

Third - I want to have the order - Shopping cart (at the top on the right), then a banner and then another banner (same size) below that. All static with a click through. How do I change the order of things on the right sideboxes?

I looked this up but couldn't find answers.

Thanks for any help - pointers

[pb4]

Ok - ignore the first bit (my mistake)!

Just need to know
1 - how to change the order of the side boxes so I have shopping cart and then a banner and then another banner?
2 - how do I get rid of sponsers heading?

Thanks

[pb4]

Getting there!

Manged to work out the sort order but still cant get rid of heading...

Also I want to add a second banner but what do I call the group? (I deleted the banner groups - so have to start again)

what do I call a new group? say controlled by banner box 2..

hope that makes sense!

[pb4]

Manged to sort it myself with adding this to the css style sheet

#bannerbox2Heading {display: none;}
#bannerboxallHeading {display: none;}

[TShooters]

Looks like you're finding your answers and getting there!

You can name your new banner group anything you'd like.

Just FYI, to rename the banner boxes, make a copy of includes/languages/english.php, and at about line 409 you have:

// banner_box
define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX','Sponsors');
define('TEXT_BANNER_BOX','Please Visit Our Sponsors ...');

// banner box 2
define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX2','Have you seen ...');
define('TEXT_BANNER_BOX2','Check this out today!');

// banner_box - all
define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX_ALL','Sponsors');
define('TEXT_BANNER_BOX_ALL','Please Visit Our Sponsors ...');

...where you can rename, change the description text, and copy back
to your includes/languages/your_template/english.php.