Joomla 2.5 Tutorials – This tutorial will help you create a brand new Banner Client, Banner Category, Banner, and learn how to Add these banners to your website on the front end.

If you are using Beez_20 template, you should first look at this post here on – How to remove the 3 banners at the bottom of your page – Contribute!, Books!, Shop! because I will create a new banner module where the ‘Contribute!’ banner currently is.

Where the Contribute! Banner IS:

Beez_20 Contribute Banner Module Position is Position-9

This tutorial is based on the following details, but please feel free to customize the names to anything you wish and is appropriate for your site.  I want to create a new banner category for my webhosting, the banner is Fatcow and client is CJ.

• Banner Client = CJ
• Banner Category = Webhosting
• Banner = Fatcow
• Module position = position-9
• Resources
  • Beez_20 Template Module Positions
  • How to Remove Banners Contribute!, Books!, Shop!

 Overview of How to Create a New Banner Module with New Banners

• Remove Banners Contribute!, Books!, Shop!
• Create New Banner Client in Component Banner Manager
• Create New Banner Category in Component Banner Manager
• Create New Banner in Components Banner Manager
• Add New Banner Module in Module Manager
• Configure Banner Module in Module Manager

1.  Remove Banners Contribute!, Books!, Shop!

Following the instructions here in the link provided.  I want to create my own banner modules that’s why I’m removing the existing Beez20 banner modules.

2.  Create New Banner Client in Component Banner Manager

Every banner has a Client and a Category it belongs to.  You can enter anything in your client.   The client may be the Affiliate Management Site like CJ or can be a store name.  In my case, my client is CJ.

• Login to your Joomla 2.5 Administrator Panel
• Click on ‘Components’, ‘Banners’, ‘Clients‘

• In the Banner Manager – New Client, set the following fields:
  • Client Name = CJ
  • Contact Name = CJ
  • Contact Email =  whatever email
  • Status = Published
  • Purchase Type = Use Global
  • Track Impressions = Yes/No
  • Track Clicks = Yes/No
  • Use Own Prefix = No
• Click on ‘Save & Close’

3.  Create New Banner Category in Component Banner Manager

You can display your banners on your site based on category.  You maybe want to rotate many of the same type of ads in one position.  For example, you want to rotate shoe ads in one position.  In my case, I’m create a category for all the web hosting ads.  My Category will be Webhosting.

• Click on ‘Components’, ‘Banners’, ‘Categories‘

•  In the Banner Category Manager: Add A New Banner Category – Select the following values:
  • Title =  Webhosting
  • Parent = No Parent
  • Status = Published
  • Language = All
• Click  on ‘ Save & Close‘

4.  Create New Banner in Components Banner Manager

Create a new banner and specify it’s category and client.  Here you can also upload an image of your banner.  You can add as many banners as you want in a category.  The module will either randomly display the banners in their respective category or display based on it’s order in the banner manager.

•  Click on ‘Components’, ‘Banners’, ‘Banners‘

5.  Add New Banner Module in Module Manager

You will now create a new banner module in your module manager.

• Click on ‘Extensions’, ‘Module Manager’
• Click on the ‘New‘ button on the top right corner

•  Under the ‘Select a Module Type:’, select Banners

6.  Configure Banner Module in Module Manager

Now you will configure your Banner Module to only show the banners that are in the banner category and client created above in steps 2,3,4.

•  In the Module Manager: Module Banners, Set the following values:
• Under Details:
  • Title = Whatever title you want – Elaine New Banner Module
  • Show Title = Hide
  • Position = position-9
  • Status = Published
  • Access = Public
  • Language = All
• Under Menu Assignment:
  • Module Assignment = On all pages
• Under Basic Options:
  • Target = Open in a new window
  • Count = 1  <— how many banners to show at one time
  • Client = CJ
  • Category = Webhosting  <— Can select more than one category
  • Search by Tag = No
  • Randomise = Sticky, Ordering  <—- Can select Sticky, Random where it will display banners randomly
• Click on ‘Save & Close’

Now refresh your website and you will see a new banner you created in step 4 in position-9 on your Joomla 2.5 website.   You can add as many banners as you want in a category.  If you select Count=1 in step 6, it will display 1 banner at a time from the chosen categories.

If you are using Beez_20 and want to create new module banners to place in position-10 and position-11, you can easily do that by repeating step 5, 6.  You will need to perform those steps twice for each position, one for position-10 and another for position-11.

Thanks,

Elaine