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# Announcement Bar

A thin, fixed bar that appears above the header. DRIFT Studio supports three display modes — static rotation, scrolling marquee, and a countdown timer.

## How to access

In the customizer, locate the **DRIFT Announcement** section in the header group. Add or edit it from there.

## Settings

### Bar shape

* **Full width** — the default. An edge-to-edge strip across the top of the site.
* **Pill** — the bar floats as a rounded Liquid Glass capsule, inset from the screen edges with even spacing above and below it.

Pill suits stores already leaning on the Liquid Glass look, since the capsule picks up the same glass treatment as the header. Full width is the safer choice when the announcement is doing real work (a countdown, a shipping threshold) and you want it to read as part of the page furniture.

### Display mode

Choose how messages appear:

* **Static (auto-rotate)** — Messages fade in one at a time on a timer.
* **Marquee (scrolling)** — Messages scroll continuously across the bar.
* **Countdown timer** — Shows a live countdown. When it reaches zero, the bar switches to your fallback mode.

### Homepage only

When enabled, the announcement bar only appears on the homepage.

### Rotation speed (static mode)

Range from 2 to 10 seconds. The number of seconds between each message.

### Marquee speed

Range from 10 to 60 seconds. The number of seconds for one full scroll cycle. Lower values are faster.

## Countdown timer

These settings only apply when **Display mode** is set to "Countdown timer".

### Countdown label

Text shown before the timer (for example, `DROP GOES LIVE IN`). Leave blank to show only the countdown.

### Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute

The target date and time. Hour uses 24-hour format (0 = midnight, 12 = noon, 18 = 6 PM).

### Timezone

The timezone the countdown is anchored to. All shoppers see the same timer regardless of their local time. A wide list of common timezones is included.

### After countdown ends

Which mode to switch to when the timer reaches zero — **Static (auto-rotate)** or **Marquee (scrolling)**.

## Blocks

Add up to 6 **Message** blocks. Each block has:

* **Text** — The message to display.
* **Link (optional)** — Optional URL. The whole message becomes a link when set.

## Tips

* The countdown shares the same message blocks as static and marquee modes, so they're ready to display once the countdown ends.
* For a single static message, add only one block — rotation is automatically disabled.