make site eye-catchy & attractive to the users with magento banner slider extension!

Extension User Guide

V. 2.0.1

Banner Slider

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Table of Contents OVERVIEW………………………………………………………………………………………3 EXTENSION FEATURES………………………………………………………………………..4 HOW TO INSTALL………………………………………………………………………………5 HOW TO USE…………………………………………………………………………………..9 CONFIGURATION………………………………………………………………………………11 UNINSTALL……………………………………………………………………………………..22 HELP / SUPPORT……………………………………………………………………………..23



OVERVIEW 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.



Features 1. For customers: • Ability to see banners as a slider of images on the Homepage or on each category

page. 2. 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.

3. 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.



Installation Steps 1. Clear the store cache under var/cache and all cookies for your store domain.

2. Disable compilation for Magento 1.4+. Log into Magento Admin Panel and

go to System → Tools → Compilation and disable the compilation.

Be sure that the Compilation Сode is disabled (System->Tools --

>Compilation)



Installation Steps 3. Disable JS & CSS merging

Navigate to System->Configuration->Developer Tab and disable "Merge

css / js". We suggest that you enable error reporting.



Installation Steps 4. Upload file manually

If you use a different from default theme - be sure to rename app/design/frontend/default/default and skin/frontend/default/default folders to your store's values. Using your FTP client upload content to your store root.



Installation Steps 5. Clear Cache

Then navigate to System->Cache Storage Management and and clear

Cache.

Do select and Refresh it by pressing submit button

6. Log out then log back in to your admin panel.



HOW TO USE



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.



Configuration

Manage Banner Slider Admin can easily manage banners by logging in the Backend>Banner



Configuration

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.



Configuration

Add Banner 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.



Configuration

Edit Banner 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.



Configuration

Delete Banner

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.



Configuration

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



Configuration 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 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'}}



Configuration Click on Save Page button to complete



Configuration To display banners on other CMS pages you may follow these steps:

1. Go to Menu CMS>Pages.

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.



Configuration

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.



Uninstall

To force Magento uninstall the module. Then replace <active>true</active> with <active>false</active> in the following files: app/etc/modules/Brainvire_Bannerslider.xml

<Brainvire_Bannerslider>

<active>true</active>

<codePool>community</codePool>

</Brainvire_Bannerslider>



Help / Support To know more about our Magento Extension Service feel free to call us at +1.631.897.7276 or email us at [email protected] or Skype us at bv.ecom

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