Display banners for category page in Magento

Display banners for category page is very easy in magento. This banner will be shown at the top in middle column. It’s very easy functionality provided by magento itself. You just need to know how to do this that all. Lets walk through the set of 2 quick and easy steps. Presuming that you have magento installed along with sample data/ or using default them. If in case the custom theme is installed/ configured then you may need to check the new theme file i.e. view.phtml of category page.

2 quick and easy steps:

Step 1: Create static block.
Login to the magento admin panel and click on “CMS > Static blocks” and create new static block.
Just remember the name of static block here

Step 2: Assign static block to the category.
Once the step 1 is complete go to the “Catalog > Manage Categories”. Select/ Click the category from left menu. It will reload the right hand panel data. Select “Display Settings” tab from right hand panel.
Now change
I) “Display Mode” drop down value “product only” to “static block and prodcut”.
II) Now select the cms block from drop down list of “CMS Block” field and click on save category button.

Now go to front-end and select the category page for whom you have just set the cms block. It will show you banner at the top of product list.