How can I make use of the option 'Billboard' in the 'Administration'?
Christine Cahoon Wed 19 Nov 2014 updated: Thu 04 Dec 2014
A billboard is much the same as the billboards you see on the side of buildings which rotate showing different posters (ads) except when you've set up a billboard and your own posters it's displayed on your web site with key messages about your products and services. Examples are on the home page of:
http://www.activefeetpodiatry.co.uk/
Each poster can contain a title, brief text, a photo and a link to further information (which can link to somewhere on your own web site or another).
We've ensured there is as much flexibility as you need to display each poster:
- you can upload your photo to your own private document store and refer to it
- specify the width of the text area—type the percentage of the amount of space you want the text to take up and the photo will automatically resize proportionately to fill the rest
- state what order you want each poster to be displayed in
- the number of seconds visitors can read each poster
- choose how the billboard moves through each poster—it can be via a horizontal or vertical movement using a swap, slide or combined swap and slide
And of course, there’s no need to do any image manipulation—ETINU does it for you. When you upload the photo, the image is optimised for the web and is resized so that it fits within the poster. You can choose either the small, normal and large image. More information on what the ETINU does when adding an image is available in the blog How to add an image....