Banner Manager problem

[macat]

I have been trying to hours to get the banner to show on the homepage.  No matter where I try to put it, it doesn't show, am I missing a step somewhere?

Here is my store, not set up yet ... the banner should be right above the one line of content right below the category menu, it will not show???

When I installed the store I did not install the sample data, would that have caused a problem?

[abolabo]

1. create banners
2. create banner block. You can do this directly from design-layouts. Choose layout where do you plan paste block and click "create new block". Then choose tab banner block.
3. fill fields and choose banners for block.
set status "on" and save.
4 check