How to make homepage images clickable in Dawn theme

Topic summary

Goal: Make Dawn homepage images (esp. Image banner) clickable without showing a button.

Approach: Helper provided edits to image-banner.liquid adding a URL setting (button_link_0) to wrap the banner image with a link. Users also asked about multicolumn and image-with-text sections.

Outcomes/issues:

  • Initial install caused page refreshes and menu links misrouting to the banner link on first load; briefly resolved, then recurred for some.
  • Major regression: works on desktop but banners disappear or don’t function on mobile (reported on Dawn 2.0–3.0). Some saw overlays shift alignment or the banner cut in half after code changes.
  • In two‑column image banners, one global link applied to both images; a user cited an external thread with combined image/CSS changes that fixed single and double column cases.

Requests/actions: Helper repeatedly asked for store URLs, specific section code (image-banner.liquid, multicolumn), theme ZIPs, and a video to reproduce. One store was password‑protected then opened; code snippets shared are central to understanding the thread.

Status: No definitive, universally working fix posted. Mobile behavior remains the key unresolved issue; troubleshooting is ongoing.

Summarized with AI on January 11. AI used: gpt-5.

@tkinkbrand

sorry for any issue can you please share store url please