Screens Brings Digital Signage Into Basker

Foyer displays, box office boards, and gallery screens usually live in a separate system, maintained by hand, drifting out of step with the website the moment a performance moves. Basker now runs them directly. You design slides in a drag-and-drop builder, group them into playlists, and schedule those playlists onto the displays in your building across a weekly timeline, so every screen carries the same event data your site already publishes.

Designing a slide

The slide builder gives you a canvas, a zones tree, and a palette of blocks, with an inspector for layout, typography, fill, stroke, background, and animation. Slides can be built once as a reusable template and then filled with real records, binding a zone to an event, season, series, or venue rather than retyping its details. Screen themes hold your colours and fonts in one place, your logo is applied across every slide from a single branding setting, and aspect ratios cover portrait, landscape, square, and custom sizes so a lobby video wall and a ticket-desk panel can share the same source material. The builder canvas, the admin preview, and the live player all draw through the same rendering layer, so a slide looks on the display exactly as it did while you were designing it.

Scheduling the week

Signage content rarely stays the same all week: matinee days need different messaging from evening performances, and the foyer on a dark Monday should not still be advertising Saturday night. The schedule board lays every display out on a seven-day timeline where you can drag and resize time slots, copy and paste them between displays, reorder rows, and right-click anywhere to add a slot and pick its playlist. A zoom slider moves between a week-wide overview and a single day in detail, a live marker tracks the current moment, and Basker refuses to save a slot that overlaps another on the same display, so exactly one thing plays at any moment. Scheduling resolves in your organisation's own timezone, so the times you enter are the times your visitors see on the wall.

Displays that look after themselves

A playlist is an ordered set of slides, each with its own duration in seconds, and a channel is the physical display that plays them. Each display simply opens its channel address and stays there: the player rotates slides, follows server time, and picks up new content as you publish it, without anyone walking round the building with a laptop. A preview dock in the corner of the schedule board plays any channel's live output while you plan, so you can confirm what is on now without leaving your desk.