Hero banners on a web page are an essential tool for interaction. The most common preference is to have an image banner grabbing the user’s attention.
With elements ranging from videos, and static images to moving carousels, hero banners have gone versatile over time.
By using customized content and different formats you can enhance the experience of your users by displaying them what they want to see.
Sitecore lets you deploy a custom hero banner carousel. If you are using Sitecore, and are unaware of the feature, then the below steps should make it effortless for you to implement it.
Step 1: Navigate to system -> Settings -> Feature.
Step 2: Insert the carousel module under the feature, by choosing the module option.
Step 3: Navigate to Layout -> Renderings -> Feature.
Step 4: Create Carousel rendering under feature -> Carousel folder.
Step 5: Navigate to Template -> Feature and create a carousel folder.
Step 6: Create a template for the hero carousel and provide it with the desired fields.
Step 7: Create a template for Hero carousel slides which we can have in Hero Carousel.
Step 8: Under the Home node create a tenant, and under the tenant create the site.
Step 9: Under the home create the Page for demonstrating the hero carousel.
Step 10: Under the Page create the data source with the help of the hero carousel component. Click on assign to provide slides template and create slides afterward.
Step 11: Provide the media in the media library for the carousel component.
Step 12: Provide all the necessary data to the fields.
Step 13: Navigate to the rendering variant in the presentation and provide a rendering variant for the carousel.
Step 14: Add Scriban to the variant and write Scriban to map components.
Step 15: Provide Rendering in the Presentation -> Details tab on our Page.
Step 16: Provide data source and rendering variant.
The final output you get
Conclusion
Having a meaningful user interface along with fitting content is paramount to grabbing user attention and providing an exceptional user experience. a carousel hero banner also helps in improving user engagement.
Sitecore allows you to have your custom hero carousel in a few steps guided in the article above. If you have more sitecore-related queries then our team is happy to assist. Contact us today.