A carousel is a set of rotating banners, or a slideshow, that displays on the homepage of your store. It allows you to display up to five slides consisting of images and text, which can be linked to specific products or pages. The image will change every few seconds.
Carousels come in a variety of sizes, which are determined by the theme. In general, AFL themes use dimensions of at least 1900 x 600 pixels. Carousel images must be in JPEG/JPG, PNG, or GIF format.
You can display up to five slides on your carousel. Empty slides won't appear on your storefront.
The Carousel Builder is found in STOREFRONT>HOME PAGE CAROUSEL
1. Click on an empty slide thumbnail. The preview will change to a message telling you to add the image.
2. On your computer, open the folder that contains your image, then drag and drop the image from your computer to the Carousel preview box. Alternatively, click select from your computer and select an image to upload.
3. Save your changes.
Adding Text and Links to your images
You have the option to add text to each carousel slide. Slides consist of a heading, button text, and regular text that can be linked to another part of the store or to another website.
- Heading — The large headline text
- Text — The regular-sized text which displays below the heading
- Button Text — The text to appear in the slide button, generally a call to action like Shop Now or Learn More.
- Link — The store page or webpage that the slide links to. See Linking a slide to another page below.
- Preview—A preview of what the text says, it will not look like this on the storefront. See Why does the carousel preview look different than my storefront?
- Slides— A list of your images and text that the carousel rotates through