Digital signage widgets and multi-zone layouts

Widgets, not templates

Some digital signage tools sell you a gallery of finished designs. DigiSignWall works differently: it gives you digital signage widgets — the working parts of a screen — and a set of zone-layout presets to arrange them in. You add your own photos, prices and messages, so the result looks like your business rather than a stock design.

Every widget is added from the sidebar of the drag-and-drop editor. Select a zone first and the widget lands inside it; position and size are stored as percentages, so a widget keeps its place when the same design plays on a different screen. Some platforms call these “digital signage apps”. Here they are simply widgets, and they are grouped the same way below as they are in the editor.

Essential widgets

Text

Headlines, opening hours, a welcome message. You choose font, size, weight, color, alignment and spacing, and can add animations — fade, zoom, slide, typing, blink, bounce or pulse — including multi-step sequences that loop, such as “fade in, hold, fade out”.

Image

Product shots, posters and logos, with cover, contain or fill fitting, rounded corners and the same animation options as text.

Video

Your uploaded video, muted and looping by default so it runs quietly all day on a lobby or window screen.

Ticker widgets

Ticker

A scrolling line of your own messages with a separator between them, and a choice of speed and direction. Good for “Free Wi-Fi: ask at the counter” along the bottom of a screen.

RSS

Pulls headlines from a news or blog feed and shows them as a ticker, cards or a list. You can show titles, descriptions and dates, filter by keywords, cap the number of items and set how often the feed refreshes.

Weather

Current conditions for a location, with optional humidity, wind, “feels like”, highs and lows and a multi-day forecast, in metric or imperial units. Layouts range from full-screen down to a compact ticker strip, which suits a reception or hotel lobby.

General widgets

Label

A short, styled tag with a background and rounded corners — “New”, “Today only”, “Room 2” — with an optional icon.

Clock

12- or 24-hour time, with or without seconds and the date, in stacked, inline, time-only or date-only layouts.

Countdown

Counts down to a date and time you pick. When it reaches zero it can show a message (“Now on!”), hold at zero, or restart on a set interval for recurring offers. Choose which units to show and an inline, stacked or boxed style — handy for sale launches, events and class start times.

Menu Board

A list of priced items with a title, currency symbol, and optional descriptions and images per item, in one or two columns. Items can be reordered and marked sold out, which dims the row, and a long list can scroll slowly when it doesn’t fit. This is the widget behind a digital menu board.

QR Code

Turns a URL or any text into a scannable code, with your colors, an optional caption and a choice of error-correction level — higher if a logo sits over the middle, lower for a code that must scan from a distance. Use it for menus, feedback forms or a sign-up link.

Shape

Rectangles, circles, stars, arrows, hearts, lines and more, with fill, outline and animation — for backgrounds, dividers and “look here” arrows.

Advanced widgets

API Data

Connects to a data source and shows its values through a simple template, where {{field}} is replaced by the live value. Use it for figures that change during the day, such as prices or production counts.

Queue

A “Now Serving” display: the current ticket number, the counter it belongs to and, optionally, how many people are waiting. You can filter it by location, and it refreshes every few seconds — built for clinics, service desks and pharmacies.

Embed widgets

YouTube

Plays a YouTube video with optional start and end times, a loop count, and mute and autoplay settings.

Streaming

Plays a live stream from an M3U8 (HLS) URL, with volume control, automatic reconnection and a fallback image shown whenever the stream is unavailable — so a sports bar never shows a black box.

Web Image and Web Video

Show an image or video straight from a URL rather than your library, with an optional reload interval so a regularly updated file stays current. Web Video can set the length of the slide from the video itself.

Embed

Places a web page or a piece of embed code in a zone, reloading on a schedule from every 30 seconds to every hour. Useful for a dashboard you already have.

Slideshow

Cycles through images and videos in one zone, with transitions (fade, slide, zoom, flip), captions, an optional Ken Burns pan-and-zoom, shuffle, and progress indicators.

A note on players: most widgets play on every DigiSignWall player. A few, including YouTube and Embed, currently play only on browser-based web player screens. The editor marks them with an asterisk so you find out while designing, not on the shop floor.

Which widget for which job

Multi-zone layouts and split screen digital signage

A multi-zone layout divides one display into regions that each play their own content. Zones are real containers: a widget dropped into a zone is positioned within it and clipped to it, so it can never spill over its neighbor.

Layouts are stored as percentages rather than pixels, which is why the same layout renders cleanly on any resolution. You design once and it fits a 1080p TV, a 4K panel or a video wall.

Presets grouped by aspect ratio

Rather than starting from a blank canvas, pick one of the system presets. They are grouped by screen shape:

• 16:9 landscape — standard TVs and monitors: Main + Footer, Split Vertically, Triple Horizontally, Quad Grid, Header + Main + Footer, Main + Two Side Panels, Menu Board (3 Column) and more.
• 9:16 portrait — standing screens and totems: Portrait Split, Portrait Header + Main + Footer, Portrait Triple.
• 21:9 ultra-wide — banners and video walls: Ultra-wide Split, Ultra-wide Quad, Ultra-wide Main + Ticker.
• 4:3 and 1:1 — older panels and square displays, including Square Quad.

Custom layouts can sit alongside the presets when your screens need something the presets don’t cover. Multi-zone layouts are part of the Pro plan; see pricing.

Let the AI assistant do the first draft

If you would rather not place every widget by hand, describe the screen to the AI assistant — “clock top right, weather below it, promo video on the left, ticker at the bottom” — or upload a screenshot of a design you like. It proposes the components, you approve each one, and the result is an ordinary editable layout built from the same widgets described on this page.