I have a beginner question on layouts ...After reading a lot about layouts, i am more confused than where i started. I want to add a banner block that will be displayed on my home page and a few other pages. I decided that it cannot be a part of the header.
I want to add this right below the header. I am trying to create my layout via bootstrap. I see in some themes that this is done inside the cms.xml file and i am not sure why i need to edit that. Clearly, i am confused..
Any help would be appreciated.
Go to your theme
app/design/frontend/Your-Package/Your-Theme/layout/local.xml
add below code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
<cms_index_index>
<reference name="content">
<block type="core/template" name="banner" before="-" template="banner/banner.phtml" />
</reference>
</cms_index_index>
</layout>
add banner.phtml file to
app/design/frontend/Your-Package/Your-Theme/template/banner/banner.phtml
add your banner in above file
To add a block to any other page replace <cms_index_index> with <routname_controllername_actionname> For example, <catalog_product_view>.