Hello,
1. Unfortunately, you can’t launch pop-up without using anchors.
2. You seem like someone who knows code. To make your header slider have fade animation first thing you need to do is add carousel-fade class to DIV with id=”headerslider” in banner-section.php in section folder, like this
<div id=”headerslider” class=”carousel slide carousel-fade”>
After that all you need to do is download this file https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdf4793fbcxxdcw/elements.less?dl=0 and replace it with the elements.less file in less folder.
Regards,
Themeton.