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# Announcement bar

The `Announcement Bar` is located at the top of every page, above your site's header and logo.

With its eye-catching position on your storefront, it's the perfect place to display important information and incentives for your customers, such as:

* **Announcements**
* **Promotions**
* **Sales**
* **News**

### **Getting Started**

You can customise your annocument bar by the following steps from your Shopify dashboard:

1. Go to `Online Store` → `Themes` → `Customise`
2. By default, the Sections panel will be loaded on page load.
3. Select `Announcement bar` at the top of the panel, just above the Header section

#### Here you can change the following options;

* **Show announcement bar**: Toggle the visibility of the announcement bar.
* **Homepage only**: Show the announcement bar on the homepage only or all pages.
* **Autoplay**: Set the announcement text to autoplay when you have more than 1 announcement.
* **Transition speed:** Set the speed of each text block to slide in from the right.

#### How to add multiple announcements?

Announcements are added using blocks, you can add multiple announcements by clicking '`Add Announcement`' You can add up to 4 announcements.

#### How to do i change the color of the Announcement bar?

* You can change the backgorund and text colors directly in the section.
* The background color will change the entire content blocks color, while the font color will change the text only. 
* Save your changes, then your done.