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Creating Banners

Create inline banners that embed seamlessly into the UI of your product.

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Written by Flora Sanders
Updated over 5 months ago

Candu Banners can be embedded anywhere in your product to promote announcements, new feature releases, events, and any other noteworthy news you want to inform your users about.

Common Banner Use Cases

  • Feature releases

  • Upgrade prompts

  • Free trial countdown

  • Promoting enablement content

  • Survey promotion

  • Event/webinar promotion

  • Upcoming maintenance alerts

  • Failed payment alerts

There are lots of options when it comes to the placement and style of Banner you can create. Let's look at a few examples to help inspire you!

Top-of-the-page banners

This is a common position for key upgrade prompts or campaigns that only use text and CTAs. This is a great spot to leverage, as Banners are apparent and don't interrupt a user. You may also want a persistent banner across every page or only target certain pages!

This requires you to have a div/selector available at the top of your product pages.

Banners between existing UI components

Another common placement for Banners is above existing UI/content on your product homepage or feature page, where it makes sense to promote new content. With more space to play with, you can create stunning banners that use images or GIFs as well as text and CTAs to capture your users' attention.

Banners CTAs

With Banners, you can trigger several calls to action to get users to do your desired actions.

Some standard options include:

  • Linking to the area of the product to start using a new feature

  • Linking to a registration page

  • Triggering an overlay that contains more content, such as a video, a survey, or a booking form


Creating Banners in Candu

To create a Banner, you can start from an existing template or from scratch. There are many templates for you to choose from that make it quick to get started:

If you are creating a new Banner from scratch, you can use the 'Card' component to create a banner of any shape or size and have the option to make it dismissible.

For example, let's create a simple webinar promotion Banner from scratch:

You can use a combo of cards, typography, layouts, and buttons to achieve this!

Just so you know, 'Cards' are the only component type that has the dismissible X option, so you must use this if you want users to be able to dismiss your banner.

Just so you know, banners are embedded like other inline Candu content, so you can learn more about launching Candu content.

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