1. You first install the module and publish it, assign it to a position and preferably make sure it’s the only module in that position.
2. You must have some basic knowledge on loading modules into your template file ..

http://docs.joomla.org/Jdoc_statements this page on docs.joomla.org contains the information relevant to this task, you will want to look at the module section of this.. essentially you would look for the html in your template pertaining to the image for the header, and replace it with the jdoc:include tag .. the name portion of this tag is the name of the position you’re using.

Whenever I use this module I called it something like “dynamic_header” and then the jdoc:include just references that name ..

When you’ve added it to your template and all that, and you first view the site.. you’ll get an error message letting you know the image it’s trying to load, this is there to help you .. create your header image with the name it suggests and then move on to the next page and continue, when you’re done with that, you will then probably want to create the default image.

Let’s say that you installed your module into a position called “header_image” .. you would then need to edit your template and put something like this in the right place in the code.



Also insure that your module is pubished, this is an insanely common issue … even for me, and I’ve been doing this for a long time!

with nearly 400 downloads, I’m surprised nobody has said something sooner, it’s possible that not everyone was affected by the issue, whatever the issue may have been.

Where you see “odheader” you would replace it with the position you have asigned the module .. if you assigned the module to a position called “header” you would use: