Category Banners

Hi
I am new to Magento
Need big help in customizing category pages as my landing pages.
To begin with I can not control/add/modify magento normal style banners on top, left, bottom
Nor can I control/add widgets on left/right from the normal widget panel.

Do I have to CSS everything and everytime ? If yes, how do I switch it to normal style widget/banner control.

Thank you.

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Profile photo of Sherlock 0.00 $tone February 1, 2013
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Hi caba,

This is a responsive theme with a special wall layout as seen at the demo, probably normal layout of left-right, right-left columns…etc would not work as expected, if you don’t want this special layout I think you should chose another normal theme

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Profile photo of Naveen Kapur 0.00 $tone February 5, 2013
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Thanks for the info Sherlock

So how do I add banners on category pages ?
Also, what if I wanted to remove products from the home page, just keeping it simple for branding?

Looking forward to your great help.

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Profile photo of Css Magician 0.00 $tone February 6, 2013
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So how do I add banners on category pages ?

Dear caba,

Please go to admin -> Manage Categories -> choice category and add category image in General Information tab.

Also, what if I wanted to remove products from the home page, just keeping it simple for branding?

If you want to remove all products from the home page, please go to admin -> System -> Configuration ->
JM Products and choice Enable is No.

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Profile photo of Naveen Kapur 0.00 $tone February 6, 2013
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Thank you so much duchh
It really helped. I was able to add static image banners but what I should have asked on first stage is html banners. Is there a option to it too.
here is the link to my website -- http://bit.ly/WPUsnx
The reason is what if I want to add hyperlinks to the banner.
Also How do I control/modify/add the right side banners ?

Yes, the home page products did disappear from that. Thanks for the help.

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Profile photo of Css Magician 0.00 $tone February 6, 2013
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Dear caba,

The reason is what if I want to add hyperlinks to the banner.

please open file app\design\frontend\base\defaulttemplate\catalog\ category\view.phtml and add hyperlinks in

Code:

<p class="category-image">

Also How do I control/modify/add the right side banners ?

please modify in app\design\frontend\default\jm_wall\layout\catalog .xml at lines 49

Code:

<block type="core/template" name="left.permanent.callout" template="callouts/left_col.phtml">
                <action method="setImgSrc"><src>images/media/col_left_callout.jpg</src></action>
                <action method="setImgAlt" translate="alt" module="catalog"><alt>Our customer service is available 24/7. Call us at (555) 555-0123.</alt></action>
                <action method="setLinkUrl"><url>checkout/cart</url></action>
            </block>
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