This recipe shows you how to define product placement banners used in a box or added to any other part of your website. The placement groups can hold rotating banners of different formats—horizontal, vertical, or square, depending on where you would like to display them.
Your Administration | Tools | Banner Manager will look like the following screenshot with groups of banners defined for product placement. One of the new groups with the format 120x120 pixels will be used in the right column, while the new horizontal group 468x60 pixels will be used in the footer instead of the default osCommerce banner. As two banners, HP Printer and There’s Something About Mary, have been added to the 120x120 pixels group, the banners in that section will rotate with each page load.
Your catalog section will pull a random advertisement for the box in the right column right from the 120x120 pixels group of banners defined for this...