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Your Online Store's Slider Banners and Images

How to update your online store's slider banner images

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Written by Dan McCarty
Updated over a week ago

Note: We design banners and social media images for monthly releases. Find banners and images here: Go to Downloads > Marketing Materials

Slider banners are a popular choice on almost every major site dealing with e-commerce.

Why have a slider on your website?

The first thing visitors see when landing on your homepage is the slider banner, this gives the potential to showcase a new set release and direct traffic to your category.

How does a slider affect your business?

They are easy to change out and users want to see new releases when they are shopping. However studies show users only click the first slide, and ones that do not look like advertisements, so just be careful and never flood your site with excess slider banners.

Features

  • Auto rotate, or stationary

  • Responsive, fits all device sizes

  • Use arrows, paginated bullets, or both

  • Change banners from your inventory

Adding the slider banner to your website

The slider can be placed on any page, however it's best placed at the top of your homepage. If you do not have one currently you will need to purchase one and have a designer install it for you. Rotating Banner Display

Adding banners to your slider

The banners are installed using the Banner Manager folder located in your inventory. Adding one is the same process as adding a new product, but you will need to tag the banner using the specified tagName added to your site. To see your tag names add this snippet to your sites url: /?mytags  example: https://yoursite.crystalcommerce.com/?mytags 

We recommend never exceeding 4 banners at a time because it slows down your page load, and users don't normally click banners after the first two.

Troubleshooting

Tagged banners not showing up

  1. This can happen if your tag names do not match what's specified in your /?mytags  field.

  2. Banners are cached and will not show for at least 10 minutes, if they do not show after this duration try forcing your cache by using /?force=true .

  3. Check the enable/disable on dates to make sure they are not being hidden.

  4. If still not showing please contact support@crystalcommerce.com

How do I organize my banners?
By default your banners are listed alphabetically, so by changing the name of them in your inventory will give you control on the order they display.

Example names: Slider Banner 1 Slider Banner 2  will show in order of the ending numerical values.

Note: We design banners and social media images for monthly releases. Find banners and images here: Go to Downloads > Marketing Materials

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