Adding an advertisement to my front page

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I wish to add a friends webpage ad to my front page immediately under the NEWS box area. Note on my website, Shoplupe has been disabled.

Importantly if the news area shrinks from say 5 news items to say 1, then the advertisement that is place below the last box should automatically move up and or down if there are more news items.

Attached is a wide shot of the webpage where on the right hand side you can see the NEWS articles and under that I have placed in Photoshop the white ad on news letters.

Help on

  1. where to find the right spot to upload the add to
  2. what measurements I need to use to keep the adv to the right and floating

Once again,

Many thanks

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Hi Guys

I am sure that one of you chaps can point me in the right direction without knowing more specific information.

Can you offer some help?

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I have worked out the problem and do not require further help at this stage. For the sake of the record and other Newbies

It is an ugly Hack because from what I can see, the Oxid CE template is not “responsive” (doesn’t change size with the change of browser display size). It should still work and be okay to set it to a static size. I am told normally websites would be responsive!??

The fix:

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[/ol]Add the image you want to appear into an image file e.g.:

/out/azure/img/

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[/ol]Next I added a line here:

/out/azure/tpl/layout/sidebar.tpl

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[/ol]Then I entered the code:

<a href="http://www.neighbourhoodnewsletters.com.au/" target="_blank"><img style="width: 172px;" alt="" src="http://www.neighbourhoodwatchshop.com.au/out/azure/img/NHNL.png"/></a>

[ol]
[/ol]Important: Every time you modify anything you must delete everything in /tmp/
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[/ol]

Last but not least I hyperlinked the insertion for example:

Click <a href="http://www.google.com">here</a> to visit Google

The sizes I took from the widths of the other components in the sidebar (you can ‘inspect’ them in the browser to see what size things have rendered as).

And that is more or less the fix. Good Luck