We’ve heard from a few users that they would prefer a more obvious way to view full size versions of the photos and floor plans on their virtual tours.
Ask and you shall receive!
The two screenshots above show (on the left) the Photos tab for an interactive floor plan and (on the right) the lightbox for viewing each … more …
If you have more than one online virtual tour in your TourVista account, these tours will be shown down the left side of your virtual tour’s dedicated web page in a section titled “My Other Virtual Tours”. While this is helpful in getting extra traffic to your other listings, sometimes it would be better to not display this list. For … more …
OK, perhaps a slight exaggeration in the title to this post, but it’s not unusual for a Microsoft product to have bugs. Their newest release of the-growing-ever-unpopular web browser Internet Explorer 9 was breaking TourVista’s coolest technology: the ability to drag and drop your tour content. Thanks to a few of our users who contacted us to report this issue. … more …
Every day you make a tiny bit if progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better. A tiny improvement that will barely benefit anyone. One inch.
There are thousands of these tiny things.
It takes a mindset of constant criticism to find them. And as you fix more and more of these little details, as you polish and shape … more …
The onset of November is a simple, yet stern, reminder to us all of what’s to come. No matter what your state or climate, it’s important to prepare your home for the coming winter months. MSN Real Estate has compiled a list of the top 10 ways to winterize your home. Every one of these steps is … more …
If you have a video of your listing, be sure to include it on your TourVista virtual tour. Here’s how:
Upgrade your virtual tour to Premium Upload your video to your YouTube account Copy the video ID from YouTube Paste the video ID into the Video section of your virtual tour
Now a Video tab will show on your virtual … more …
Google Maps is great and most of the time it works as expected. But every once in a while, for whatever reason, it won’t map your property correctly. This is annoying and ruins all of the effort you’ve put into creating your virtual tour on TourVista.
Previously, you had to contact us and we would manually update your mapping. As … more …
Hey All,
We’ve given our real estate marketing blog some much needed love by adding a few cool social media improvements:
Notice on the left the super cool social media share box. This makes it a breeze to share a great blog post with your social network. And check out what happens when you scroll the page down… how cool … more …
We’ve heard from some of our users that people may not know to mouseover the interactive floor plans in order to view the arrows and each respective photograph. Leaving out this instructive text was a deliberate design decision as we wanted to keep the tour player free of unnecessary content. However, at the same time, if a user doesn’t realize … more …
In case you ever need to transfer a virtual tour between accounts, don’t waste your time in recreating it! Just follow the steps outlined in this tutorial and quickly move a virtual tour from one TourVista account to another.
Note: if you are transferring a Premium virtual tour to a Free account or an account that has already used up … more …
