How to merge several images into a dynamic carousel
Hello Tourdashers! It has been a while since the last time we published some technical posts. In today’s post we explain how to merge several images into a dynamic carousel. This functionality can be useful in many areas – real estate and hotels, restaurants and shops, etc.
To edit TourDash tour CSS-styles, you should have access to the CSS panel. It’s located on a “Labs” editor tab. If you don’t see such tab, please, write a request to support@tourdash.com and we will include this functionality to your account.
To see an example of such carousel in TourDash tour
First of all upload images you want to use in a dynamic carousel. All the pictures should be the same size, otherwise the carousel may look crooked.
Next, create a hotspot and use the following snippet as a basis for your code:
If you want to get the carousel without white borders (as in an example), use the following snippet for your CSS styles. To add it go to the “Labs” panel.
For any question please contact us! 🙂
TourDash tour of the month | December’16
Hello everybody! One of our favorite parts of the monthly routine is choosing the best TourDash tour made during previous four weeks. How do we choose it? We thoroughly look through all the tours and pay attention to the common quality and integrity of the 3D performance. What is the idea and how is the main goal of the tour is implemented? Is it interesting to explore? Also we notice using of TourDash features. We really like some extraordinary elements and unusual solutions, which help tours to be more effective. For us it’s like a small adventure – to check all the virtual places and find something really ecxiting. Thank you all for your tours! Sometimes it’s hard to pick one.
December brought us a new cool TourDash tour - Zetels De Man. Customized navigation menu and hotspots, corporate colors and appropriate using of logo look very pretty. The highlight of this tour is accentuated content inside boundary hotspots made as quotes. In these short phrases authors concentrated the main advantages of their product. This is a great move to attract visitors attention to the most important points and help potential customers easily get the gist. All these elements create a positive attitude to the company. The design of hotspots is also very pleasant: perfect size and amount of text, division into semantic units. Just bravo! Hope this tour will convert a lot of the visitors to the customers!
We’re always keeping an eye out for the tours to find the most elaborated and interesting tour of the month. Although, if you’re particularly proud of a tour, share it with us! If you have any tours you’d like to submit please send them to support@tourdash.com. If it wins we will show it in our blog and social media next month.
Thank you for working with TourDash! See you soon!
Need help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly, you can reach out to us by sending an email to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
Want a virtual tour for your business?
If you are a business owner and you want to create an advanced interactive virtual tour for your business, using the TourDash features and functionality, you can find a trusted TourDash reseller in your area by using this list.Â
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a nice day! 
TourDash tour of the month | November’16
We’re always keeping an eye out for the tours to find the most elaborated and interesting TourDash tour of the month. This month we found the Hoseasons Tour.Â
What is special about this Tour? It’s a neat and well done tour with a lovely decoration of navigation window and hotspots. There are a lot of hotspots with brief descriptions of the location and everything is clear. This virtual tour is interesting to explore and easy to navigate. And what is important it’s attractive from the beginning. Nice job!
Dear TourDashers, if you’re particularly proud of your tours, share them with us! Any tours you’d like to submit please send to support@tourdash.com. We will show it in our blog and social media.
Need help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly, you can reach out to us by sending an email to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
Want a virtual tour for your business?
If you are a business owner and you want to create an advanced interactive virtual tour for your business, using the TourDash features and functionality, you can find a trusted TourDash reseller in your area by using this list.Â
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a nice day! 
TourDash News
Hello everyone! We have a couple of great news for you!
Google Maps API Upgrade
We have upgraded TourDash to the latest version of Google Maps API. Google has introduced a lot of new features and significantly improved the quality of panorama rendering in this version. Here are some of the improvements:
Smoother Transitions
Transitions from one point to another in Street View now include more animation frames, creating the effect of gliding smoothly to the next location. Transitions in the old renderer looked like jumping from one location to another.
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Smoother Loading Animations
The old renderer repeats images while loading new content, resulting in a stuttering effect. The new renderer uses lower resolution imagery while loading, resulting in a smoother animation when rotating an image in Street View.
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Object modeling improvements
Objects in Street View look better in the new renderer because it builds a 360-degree model that considers all possible perspectives. For example, this high rise building has wavy lines in the old renderer, as opposed to crisp lines in the new renderer.
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Full support of Google Photospheres
As you now, we had a limited support for Google Photospheres before. You could use photosphere but the only way was to add them as an external location to an already existing TourDash tour. We have updated our application, so now you can create TourDash tours starting from Google Photospheres without any restrictions!
Stay tuned and read our blog, more updates are coming this year!
TourDash tour of the month | October’16
Hello there! Today is the time for our regular column – TourDash tour of the month. As usually we’ve carefully investigated all the tours made during the last four weeks. And we are happy to present you the winner: The Caledonian Club!
The tour is really neat yet not boring, and it brings you the atmosphere of a private club in one of the most luxurious areas of London – Belgravia. All hotspots are well made and designed using dark-violet color scheme which is also used for the navigation menu.
Enjoy watching it!
Tour was made by Weeks360
- TourDash tour of September
- TourDash tour of August
- TourDash tour of July
- TourDash tour of June
- TourDash Tour of May
- TourDash Tour of April
- TourDash Tour of March
- TourDash Tour of February
We’re always keeping an eye out for the tours to find the most elaborated and interesting tour of the month. Although, if you’re particularly proud of a tour, share it with us! If you have any tours you’d like to submit please send them to support@tourdash.com. If it wins we will show it in our blog and social media next month.
Thank you for working with TourDash! See you soon!
Need help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly, you can reach out to us by sending an email to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
Want a virtual tour for your business?
If you are a business owner and you want to create an advanced interactive virtual tour for your business, using the TourDash features and functionality, you can find a trusted TourDash reseller in your area by using this list.Â
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a nice day! 
TourDash tour of the month | September’16
Hello there! Today is the time for our regular column – TourDash tour of the month. As usually we’ve carefully investigated all the tours made by our resellers during the last four weeks. And we are happy to present you the winner: Ethiopian Airlines!
A pleasant green color that matches the corporate logo is used for all elements across the tour. You can check out the interior of airplanes and learn about different entertainment options on board.
You can find a cool static popup with useful links for booking a new flight with Ethiopian or managing your existing trips.
Enjoy watching it!
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We’re always keeping an eye out for the tours to find the most elaborated and interesting tour of the month. Although, if you’re particularly proud of a tour, share it with us! If you have any tours you’d like to submit please send them to support@tourdash.com. If it wins we will show it in our blog and social media next month.
Thank you for working with TourDash! See you soon!
Need help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly, you can reach out to us by sending an email to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
Want a virtual tour for your business?
If you are a business owner and you want to create an advanced interactive virtual tour for your business, using the TourDash features and functionality, you can find a trusted TourDash reseller in your area by using this list.Â
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a nice day! 
TourDash tour of the month | August’16
Hello everybody! This post continues our regular column – TourDash tour of the month. As usually we’ve carefully investigated all the tours made by our resellers during the last four weeks. And we are happy to present you the winner: Zoo Burkart Tour!
There is one amazing thing about this tour – absolutely lovely boundary hotspots! They are designed as complete pictures with useful information about the shop according to the store theme and corporate style – a jungle. It looks really attractive and motivates to surf into the virtual tour more. Dynamic hotspots are in common style of the tour as well and are made as beautiful toucans – corporate symbol of the pet shop Zoo Burkart.
This tour contains a perfect amount of information and doesn’t overweight visitors with text inside the hotspots. High quality of photos and bright decorating colors have made Zoo Burkart tour very pleasent to explore!Â
Enjoy watching it!
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We’re always keeping an eye out for the tours to find the most elaborated and interesting tour of the month. Although, if you’re particularly proud of a tour, share it with us! If you have any tours you’d like to submit please send them to support@tourdash.com. If it wins we will show it in our blog and social media next month.
Thank you for working with TourDash! See you soon!
Need help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly, you can reach out to us by sending an email to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
Want a virtual tour for your business?
If you are a business owner and you want to create an advanced interactive virtual tour for your business, using the TourDash features and functionality, you can find a trusted TourDash reseller in your area by using this list.Â
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a nice day! 
How to insert a logo into a navigation menu
Hello everybody! This week we want to share with you some useful technical information. This small feature will help you to make your TourDash tour more good-looking and attractive for your visitors.
Some of you have asked us about setting up a logo inside the navigation menu. This is a really simple process. Just follow this 5 steps!
Step 1 – prepare a logotype image. It should be saved in PNG format with transparent background.
Step 2 – upload logo to your TourDash account. Navigate to live.tourdash.com/assets, upload the image and copy it’s direct url by right-clicking the uploaded image and choosing “Copy link address”.
Step 3 – open your tour editor and navigate to the CSS editor. Please write to support@tourdash.com to get an access to the CSS panel if you don’t have one.
Step 4 – modify our snippet, place link to the logo from Step 2, adjust padding.
Step 5 – Save your tour and enjoy! 🙂
TourDash tour of the month | July’16
Hello there! Today is the time for our regular column – TourDash tour of the month. As usually we’ve carefully investigated all the tours made during the last four weeks. And we are happy to present you the winner: Senator Barcelona Spa Hotel Tour!
The most exciting part of the tour is multi-language hotspots which are designed in a nice, simple and comfortable way for users. Also hotel booking is possible directly from the hotspots. That’s been thought through perfectly! And the last advantage is corporate colors and logo in the navigation menu. This tour is done very well!
Enjoy watching it!
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- TourDash tour of June
- TourDash Tour of May
- TourDash Tour of April
- TourDash Tour of March
- TourDash Tour of February
We’re always keeping an eye out for the tours to find the most elaborated and interesting tour of the month. Although, if you’re particularly proud of a tour, share it with us! If you have any tours you’d like to submit please send them to support@tourdash.com. If it wins we will show it in our blog and social media next month.
Thank you for working with TourDash! See you soon!
Need help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly, you can reach out to us by sending an email to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
Want a virtual tour for your business?
If you are a business owner and you want to create an advanced interactive virtual tour for your business, using the TourDash features and functionality, you can find a trusted TourDash reseller in your area by using this list.Â
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a nice day! 
TourDash Total Statistics
Good morning everybody! How is it going? Today we want to share with you our statistics for all 2,5 years of TourDash existance. It was interesting to collect data and look at the dynamics. Please pay attention that 2016 is still going, so the stats of this year isn’t full for now.
Let’s start from the tours:
So, during all this time in total 5212 Tourdash tours were created: 3655 Demo and 1560 Paid ones. The number of demo tours is going down, but paid tours are growing. That’s exciting! The most using feature in Tourdash tours is Advanced Navigation.
Some numbers about TourDash resellers:
In total 2129 resellers are registered in TourDash since 2014. This is more then 2 new resellers every day. That is great! We are glad to work with everybody! 🙂
And at last here are top 16 countries from were resellers have registered. We could use data only from fully filled profiles, though. If you haven’t specify your country, we don’t count you here.
That is all for now! What else is interesting for you for the next statistics post?