What is a web panel?

A web panel allows you to display a web page in any section of your display board. In the example below, the BBC News page is displayed on the right-half of the board, alongside a leaderboard panel.

Adding a web panel

To add a web panel, click on the toolbar button to expand the list of panel types and choose the button, as shown below:

After selecting the web panel button, the mouse pointer changes into a white crosshair pointer, indicating that the designer is ready to draw your panel. Click and hold your left mouse button, starting at the point defining the upper-left corner of your new panel. Whilst still holding down the left mouse button, drag the marquee that will appear to the point that will define the lower-right corner of your panel, as shown below:

Customising a Web panel

To customize your web panel, click on the button on the top-left corner of the screen, then select the icon to customise the panel, as shown below:

The following screen will appear:

Content

Type the URL and title of the web page you would like to appear, then press Add. This will appear as follows:

Background

By default the background of the Web panel is black with a lighting effect. However you can add an image source as the background and either choose to have that image centered in the panel or repeated by typing in details. In that case, you may even want to set a transparent background for your image. Alternatively, just pick a colour from the colour palette and leave the Image source field blank, as shown below:

Metrics

The width and height of the panel containing the Web page will be picked up automatically. You can change this by using your mouse to drag this to a different size or by changing the number of pixels to define the panel size.

You can also choose the refresh rate for the panel, by filling in the Article refresh box provided. At the end, click theSavebutton to save any changes made.

Web panel - overview video

For a live demonstration on how to design and customise a Web panel, watch the video below: