Café screen ideas from opening to close
Ideas for your café screen at each part of the day, from the breakfast menu to last orders, plus a five-minute routine that keeps it right.
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Practical guides on digital signage: what to show on your screens, where to put them and how to keep them up to date, sector by sector.
Restaurant menu screens: 8 mistakes and how to fix them
Tiny text, menus as pictures, sold-out dishes that vanish. Eight mistakes restaurants make with menu screens, and a practical fix for each.
Pub screens beyond the football: specials, fixtures and quiz night
Use your pub TVs for more than sport: specials, fixtures, quiz night and paid local ads, with a simple weekly routine from Monday to Sunday.
Digital menu board checklist: before your menu goes on a TV
Tick these off before your menu goes live on a TV: prices, dietary badges, readable text, sold-out items, time-of-day menus and launch day.
How to sell advertising on your venue's screens
A step-by-step guide to selling ad slots on your screens to local businesses: who to ask, how to price a slot, the booking flow and the commission.
Waiting room screens: show now serving and the wait
Show who is being seen and how long the wait is, from a screen the whole room can read. Placement, update habits and how to build it.
Hotel screen ideas for the lobby, lifts and restaurant
Ideas for hotel screens grouped by place in the building, from the lobby welcome to the lift lobby, the restaurant door and the staff corridor.
How to set up a care home reception screen for families
A step-by-step setup for the screen families read at the front door: visiting hours, staff on duty, celebrations, menus, polls and the privacy checks to make first.
Dementia day clocks: what makes one readable
What a day clock should show, in what order and size, how to keep it readable from the far chair, and where to put it in a care home lounge or corridor.
Hospital waiting area screens: what to show and who updates them
Plan screens for waiting rooms, corridors and ward entrances: what to show, what to keep off, accessibility basics and a table of who owns which screen.
12 ideas for a dental practice waiting room screen
Twelve things to put on a dental waiting room screen, from the running delay and fees to the team, reviews and QR codes, plus what to leave off it.
Calm spa screens: treatment menus, classes and quiet visuals
Where screens belong in a spa, how to lay out a treatment menu and class timetable, which visuals stay calm, and a do and avoid list for timing.
A nursery entrance screen for parents: a checklist
Set up a screen parents read at drop-off and pick-up: placement, menus, notices and closures, a weekly routine and firm rules for children's photos.
Plan your emergency screen messages before you need them
A seven-step plan for emergency screen messages: pre-written alerts, levels, which screens each goes to, who can trigger them, drills and ending an alert.
Gym class timetable screens: set-up, cancellations and challenges
Where to mount gym screens, how to build a class timetable that moves on through the day, and how the front desk cancels or fills a class from a phone.
Leisure centre screens: a plan for the pool, studios and facilities
A screen-by-screen plan for a leisure centre, from the turnstile to the pool entrance, with pool sessions, facility status and opening hours kept right through the day.
How to turn a PDF class timetable into a live one on a TV
Step by step from a printed PDF to a live timetable on a TV: import a CSV, check rooms and instructors, publish, and mark classes cancelled or full as the day goes on.
Holiday park screens: entertainment, arrivals and changeover day
What to show at reception, the clubhouse and the pool on a holiday park, with a weekly routine built around changeover day.
A library digital noticeboard: what to show and how to keep it current
Opening hours and closures, events, room bookings, community notices and new arrivals: what to put on a library screen and how to keep it current across branches.
12 ideas for church screens: services, notices, rotas and appeals
Twelve ideas for a church or community hall screen, from service times and the rota to hall bookings and appeal progress, with tips for volunteers and tone.
How to show a live dashboard on an office TV
Three ways to put live numbers on an office TV (a Google Sheet, a league table or an embedded web dashboard) and how to make the screen readable from across the room.
School screens: a plan for reception, corridors and the staff room
A screen-by-screen plan for schools: what parents see at reception, what pupils read in corridors, what stays in the staff room, and the safeguarding rules to agree first.
A checklist for rolling out screens across a university campus
Map the estate, build the structure, decide who edits what, agree the look and connect room calendars. A stage-by-stage checklist for screens across a campus.
12 ideas for office screens that staff will read
Welcomes, farewells, a days-since-last-accident counter, notices that expire and today's meeting rooms. Twelve ideas for office screens, and where each one works best.
How to run a staff-only noticeboard screen
A screen in the break room reaches staff who never read email. Where to put it, what to show each shift and each week, who posts what, and how to keep it current.
Digital wayfinding signs: where to put them and what to show
Put wayfinding screens at decision points, write the arrows from where each screen stands, and plan for the day a lift breaks or a clinic moves floors.
How to replace a cork noticeboard with a screen in seven steps
Photograph the board, bin most of it, give every notice an end date and an owner, then run the screen beside the cork board for a week before it comes down.
Choosing a TV for digital signage: a buyer's guide
Size, brightness, orientation, mounting, power and network, then a comparison of the ways to connect a TV to NowBoard. Read this before you buy a screen.
Conference screens: the schedule, room changes and sponsor slots
Where to put conference screens, how to load a multi-day programme once, handle room changes on the day and give sponsors screen time.
Event signage checklist: from the venue visit to packing down
Grouped checklists for every stage of an event's screens, from power and Wi-Fi on the venue visit to who can change content on the day.
Wedding venue screens: welcome boards, table plans and photo walls
A how-to for wedding venues: build welcome, order of the day, table plan and guest photo Boards once, then switch them to the next couple in minutes.
What to show on a welcome screen: 12 ideas for reception
Twelve ideas for a reception screen, grouped by job: greeting visitors, answering the usual questions and showing what is on today.
Shop window and in-store screens: a how-to for retailers
How to place a shop window screen, then show products with sale prices and stock, reviews, social links and a QR code to buy.
The now and next display board: one screen for what's on
A screen that shows what is on now, what comes next and the time. What to put on it, where to mount it and a ten-minute weekly routine.
What is digital signage? A plain-English guide
Digital signage is any screen used to show information or content in a public or commercial place, from one TV in a care home lounge to hundreds of screens in a retail chain. What to know before you buy.
How much does digital signage really cost in the UK?
Every cost category for digital signage in the UK: hardware, software, installation and running costs, so you can build an honest budget before you buy.
How to display a schedule on a TV: 5 options compared
Every realistic way to put a schedule, rota or timetable on a wall-mounted TV, from a USB stick to signage software, with the trade-offs of each.
Meeting room displays: a complete buyer's guide
Tablets, e-ink panels and corridor screens for meeting rooms compared, with the pros, cons and costs of each option.
Digital activity boards for care homes: a practical guide
What to show on a care home activity board, how digital boards compare with paper and whiteboards, and how to set one up without a technical team.
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