Adding welcome texts and banners to category page

You can use the built-in text editor to add text, videos, or images to your Ecwid online storefront to keep customers informed with key updates about your business. The texts, pictures, or videos that you add to category descriptions will appear on top of the page of the corresponding category, including the storefront page, and you can make this content clickable.  

Here’s how a banner image might look on the category page:

Adding texts, pictures, and videos as banners to your storefront

You can create banners in the form of text, images, or videos and add them to any product category page using built-in text editor. 

To add content to a category page:

1. From your Ecwid admin, go to Catalog → Categories.
2. Choose the category you want to add content to in the list on the left. To display content on the store home page, choose Store front page category.
3. Find the Description field on the right:
   

   

4. Type your text or click an appropriate icon to add a video, image, table, or a link to the category description. You can change font size and color to make your text more vivid.
5. (optional) Drag a corner selection handle to resize the image. To align the image, click the alignment icon and choose where to place the banner.
6. (optional) To make an image clickable, in the Description field, click the <> icon in the upper right corner of the editor menu to enter the HTML mode. Your image will be shown in the <img src="..."> part:
   

   

7. (optional) Enter <a href="https://www.YOURLINK.com/"> right before the <img src="..."> part. Instead of https://www.YOURLINK.com/ you should insert into <a href=""> the webpage address that you need. You can simply copy the link to a page and paste it inside the quotation marks. After the <img src="..."> put </a> so the code looks like this:
   

   

8. Click the <> icon in the upper right corner of the editor menu to exit the HTML mode and check the changes.
9. Click Save.

That’s it. Now texts, images, or videos added to category descriptions will appear at the top of each corresponding category page.

Adding banners and popups via Apps

You can add a popup banner or a promo bar to your store using apps from the Ecwid App Market.

The following apps allow adding eye-catching banners and popups:

• 20+ Promotional Sales Tools from Zotabox allows you to create banners, popups, bars, and more. You can choose where to display them in your store and customize texts and design however you like.
• Poptin: Smart Popups and Contact Forms allows you to create beautiful popups and opt-ins with ease using the advanced drag and drop editor.