FastPageAdd a header banner to your site
Put a short announcement strip across the top of your site — write it in advance, flip it on when needed, and even link it to a booking form.
What You’ll Learn
You'll learn where the header banner lives on the Home screen, how to write one and control when it shows with the Visible switch, and how to link it to a booking form with a preselected date. We'll also cover how saving works and what to do if your template's header doesn't show a banner.
The header banner is a short announcement strip across the top of your site. It's the fastest way to tell every visitor something right now — "Closed for the long weekend", "New winter menu", "Now taking Christmas orders".
It takes under a minute to set up, and changes go live immediately — no publishing step, no waiting.
Where to find it
The banner isn't edited in the builder. It lives on your Home screen, under Quick Edits, in the Header banner tile — right where you land when you log in, because it's the kind of thing you change often.
The tile shows your current banner text at a glance, so you can see what's on your site without opening anything.
Writing your banner
Open the tile and you'll find three things:
- A Visible switch that controls whether the banner shows on your site. It's independent of the text — you can write a banner in advance and flip it on when the moment comes.
- The banner text, up to 80 characters. Short and plain works best: say the one thing, skip the rest.
- A colour choice: White, Black, Green, Yellow, Blue or Pink. Pick one that stands out against your site's header.
That Visible switch is more useful than it looks. Write "Closed for the long weekend" on Wednesday, leave it off, and switch it on Friday morning from your phone in ten seconds.
Making the banner clickable
If your site has a booking or enquiry form, you can make the banner do more than announce — the Link to form switch turns it into a shortcut. Visitors who tap the banner are taken straight to the form.
Pick which form the banner should point to, and optionally Preselect a date so the form opens with that date already chosen. That's handy for event bookings: a banner reading "Live music Saturday — book a table" can land visitors on your booking form with Saturday's date filled in.
If you don't see this option, it means your site doesn't have a request form yet — add one in the builder first.
Saving your changes
On a computer, click Save. On a phone, the editor opens as a drawer from the bottom — tap Done to save.
Closing the editor any other way — swiping the drawer down, tapping outside it — discards your changes. That's deliberate: a half-typed banner can never accidentally go live on your site. Nothing is published until you actively save it.
Once saved, the banner appears on your live site straight away. There's no Publish button involved, so double-check your spelling before you hit Save.
If you can't see the Header banner tile
Not every design shows a banner. It appears on sites whose header supports it — if the Header banner tile isn't in your Quick Edits, your current template's header doesn't have one.
If a banner matters to you, you can try a different template — see Change your site's look for how switching works (and why it's safe to try).
Banner or event announcement?
The banner is best for short, general notices: changed hours, a new menu, a seasonal message.
If you're promoting a specific upcoming event — with a date, and ideally bookings — the event announcement is usually the better tool. It's built for exactly that, and it hides itself automatically once the date has passed. See Promote an event for how it works.
And for everything else on your site — the sections, photos and text behind the banner — head to Editing your site in the builder.
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