The homepage of any website is most viewed by visitors. As a result, it is a great idea to showcase an advertising popup there so that customers will have a better view of what is being promoted in your website. Understanding this need, we find it a must to develop a so-called Homepage Banner Popup extension to improve your banner management system. For more details, feel free to access our site and explore its more cool features. http://www.magebuzz.com/homepage-banner-popup.html

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Homepage Banner Popup
User Guide
Version 0.1.1
Release Date: 3/7/2013

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Table of Contents
I. Preface ......................................................................................................................................... 3
About This Document................................................................................................................. 3
Updates, Comments, and Suggestions ........................................................................................ 3
II. Homepage Banner Popup........................................................................................................... 4
III. Configuration setting ................................................................................................................ 4
1. Manage banners....................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Create a new banner .......................................................................................................... 5
2. Edit an existing banner ........................................................................................................ 6
2. Popup setting........................................................................................................................... 7
3. Banner statistics management................................................................................................. 8
4. Front-end................................................................................................................................. 9
IV. Support.................................................................................................................................... 10
V. Customization .......................................................................................................................... 10

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I. Preface
About This Document
This user manual provides you with information on how to configure and use the Homepage
Banner Popup extension for Magento stores.
Updates, Comments, and Suggestions
We always appreciate your valuable comments, recommendations, or questions about the
information included in this document to our support team via email: support@magebuzz.com

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II. Homepage Banner Popup
The Homepage Banner Popup extension allows store owners to promote their own
products/services or display advertising banners of other websites or run some promotional
campaigns on their website’s homepage. Besides, customers won’t be distracted as the popup
will be hidden right after they click on the banner or close the popup.
III. Configuration setting
After the installation is successfully conducted, you need to do initial setup for this new
extension. Login your magento admin panel and go to System > Configuration > Magebuzz
Extensions > Banner Popup or go to CMS > Banner Popup on the menu bar
You will see two setting groups as following:
- Manage banners
- Setting
Fig (1.1) Homepage Banner Popup Setting Groups

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1. Manage banners
The module allows you to add, edit or delete banners easier than you expect. In other words, this
you can create new images & edit the existing ones.
1.1 Create a new banner
Fig (1.2) New image setting
This section allows you to add information to a new banner you plan to show in your hompage.
 Title: You can edit banner title to simplify the banner management in the backend.
 Image: You are able to choose an image containing appropriate dimensions with respect
to our wish to be displayed on the frontend.
 Link: Here you can add an embedded url so that whenever there exists a click on the
popup, the link will direct customer to the target website or detail page.
 Status: You can choose to Enable or Disable this banner.
Fig (1.3) New image setting

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1.2. Edit an existing banner
In case you have already owned several banners, you can use them immediately or click on
“Edit” if you wish to make some changes.
Fig (1.4) Banner editting
Once again, we will see the similar tabs to adjust including:
 Title: You can insert another name if necessary.
 Image: In case the image does not match your hompage interface or you’d like to place a
new image for your products or programs, etc, you can upload another image here.
 Link: Embed a different link if you want to make changes for the direct destination.
 Status: Should you wish to disable/enable the banner when your program is over/on or
due to other reasons, this tab will help you.

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2. Homepage popup setting
After you have completed creating new banners or editing current images, it’s time to make
innitial setting so as for the popup to come into effects in your hompage. Simply, by going to
CMS > Banner Popup > Setting, you can complete your job.
Fig (1.5) Popup setting group
 Display in Home Page: Here you can select to show the banners you have set up in
homepage or not by choosing “Yes” or “No”
 Hide popup after Customer see it: You can avoid customer annoyance by turning on
this function. In details, it makes sure that customers will see the popup one time until
cookie become expired. The popup is hidden in the following cases:
+ Customer have clicked on the banner.
+ The popup is closed without any registration.
 Set cookie time out: You can fill the number of days you wish to show popup one time
to customers.

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3. Banner statistics management
Fig (1.6) Banner management
In the admin panel, you can control all the statistics related to the banners displayed in your
homepage including number of clicks, impression level and their status.
 Count Click: Allow you to track how many clicker per banner
 Count Show Image: Here you can define the frequency that an image is displayed, then
know which advertisement is most impressive.
 Status: You can view which banners are enabled or disabled from this table.

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4. Front-end
After you enable all possible option as described in above sections, you should come to your
homepage to check whether your setting goes in the right way. Here is an example of a Youtube
Video extension popup displayed in the homepage.
Fig (1.7) Front-end popup display
Remember that the popup will take an image randomly from your banner store and show it on
the homepage.

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IV. Support
We provide multiple ways for supporting our clients. You can simply email us at
support@magebuzz.com or log in your account at Magebuzz store and submit new ticket about
your problem.
Our support team always feels happy to help with any question raised by you. So never hesitate
to send an email to our support team to get answers to your specific questions to respond to your
query promptly.
V. Customization
Our module is 100% open source and provided under General Public License
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). You are allowed to completely customize the theme to
meet your requirements.
In case you want to use our customization service, please send us a request quote at:
http://www.magebuzz.com/contacts