This option is how we have our demo set up.  You can also use more than one image to create a full width slider in this area.

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For this option you will set up your full width slider as outlined on our Setting up the Slider page.

Our demo site uses the Genesis Enews widget in the Home Slider Overlay widget area to display the newsletter opt in over the large full width slider/image.

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This is how we have the Genesis – eNews Extended plugin configured:

We recommend using MailChimp to build your list.  Once you sign up for a MailChimp account and create a list you need the form action code to add where you see the # in our example.

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The section below the large full width image is the home middle and in this area we have our flexible widget area on the left and another widget area on the right.

Home Left Middle 

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In the Home – Left Middle widget area we are using 3 featured page widgets, all configured as you see below:

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Home Right Middle

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The Genesis user profile widget is linked to your Gravatar.com account and that is where you upload your image.  Here is how we have the Genesis – User Profile widget configured:

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Here is how we have the text widget configured

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You can copy and paste the following into a text widget.  You may have to retype the ” ” marks as they sometimes don’t paste over properly.

Replace the link with your own and the image source url with yours.

<p style=”text-align: center;”><a href=”http://demos.stephaniehellwig.com/sherri/” target=”_blank”><img class=”aligncenter wp-image-659 size-full” src=”http://demos.stephaniehellwig.com/sherri/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/12/sidebar-ad-2.png” alt=”appealad” width=”300″ /></a></p>

How to configure the Home Bottom Widget Area