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A visible, yet unintrusive way to deliver announcements to users–at scale.

Updated at August 10th, 2023

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What Are Banners? How to Build Banners Customizing Your Banner Styling Your Banner Targeting and Placement of Banners FAQs

What Are Banners?

Banners are a real-estate-friendly and well-known UI pattern that attach to the top of the user’s screen.

With Appcues’ Banners, you can:

  • Lay Banners on top of product content or embed 
  • Add buttons and links to drive action 
  • Target users based on behaviors and attributes 
  • Schedule banners to appear at a certain time (coming in June!)
  • Measure performance and results (coming in June!)

How to Build Banners

In Chrome, go to the URL of a page that you want your banner to appear on, and open the Appcues Builder Chrome extension by clicking the Appcues logo.

1. Select “Add a Banner”

 

2. Choose New if you are creating a new banner, or choose an existing banner to edit

 

 

3. If you are building new, you can choose from one of our pre-built Banners templates, or start from scratch

 

Customizing Your Banner

The Banners settings panel lets you control exactly how your banner will appear to your users.

 

 

The Sticky option lets you define what happens to your banner as users scroll your page

  • When the Sticky option is enabled, the banner will remain at the top of the screen as your users scroll the page.

Embedding options let you define how your banner is placed on your site

  • Choosing “Inline” will push your site content down beneath your banner. This is helpful if you have top navigation that you want to remain available even when your banner is present.
  • Choosing “Overlay” will float your banner above your content.

Animation options let you define how your banner appears on your site.

  • Choosing “Slide-in” will smoothly slide your banner in from the top of the page. This is a great way to make sure your banner gets attention.
  • Choosing “None” will display your banner at the top of your page.

Dismiss Behavior allows you to add a dismissal X to the banner.

  • When “Allow this banner to be dismissed” is toggled on a dismissal X will be added to the banner.
  • When the user clicks the X the banner will be dismissed and they will not be shown the banner again.

Styling Your Banner

Styling options help you create a banner that is noticeable and on-brand.

  • You can define your background and text colors by entering a Hex value, or using the eye-dropper tool to choose a specific color on your site.
  • You can define how large your banner is by setting padding and margins.
  • For additional separation between the banner and your content, you can enable a bottom border.

 

Targeting and Placement of Banners

You will manage the targeting and placement of your banner via the Appcues website https://studio.appcues.com/.

Banners is available within the main navigation of Appcues. When clicked, you will now see a list of all the Banners within your account.

 

You can control where your Banners appear by adjusting the Page or Environment settings, and who should see your Banner by adjusting the Audience targeting settings.

 

 

FAQs

  • How often will my Banner show up for users?

Banners are a persistent experience that will continue to show unless your users dismiss it if the ‘Dismiss behavior’ option is enabled in the Builder.

  • How can I add emoji to a banner?

Banners do not have a separate emoji block but emoji can be added to an existing or a new text block. 
Access the emoji keyboard on your device:
Windows - press the Windows key + . (Windows reference)
Mac - press Control + Command + Space (Apple reference)

 

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