Category: General

Results of our survey

Hello everybody! A couple of weeks ago we asked you to participate in our small spring survey. Thank you all for taking part! We are very glad to see your opinion and analyze our work. We want to share results of the research with you and answer some questions that were asked in the last part of the pull. We hope our comments will make everything clear!




Guys, what you are reading right now is our blog! 🙂 So yeah, we do have a blog!

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After subscription once in two weeks you will receive our email full of useful information about TourDash, our updates and interesting articles about online marketing, virtual tours usage, web trends and much more. And in case you don’t like it cancelling subscription is possible any minute. 🙂

Popular responses and our comments

1. Many of you have asked us about the possibility of Whitelabel. It is not indicated on our website (it’s our fault, we will add this information), but we provide whitelabel solutions for our customers. If you are interested, please email us request to support@tourdash.com with your requirements and we will send you a proposal for possible solutions.
2. VR – this word appeared in many comments. Currently TourDash does not support VR-headsets, but we understand that VR is a trend today and we’re planning to explore the possibility for integration of VR in TourDash and possibly release VR beta functionality during the coming months.
3. We’ve received a lot of notes about TourDash support. At the moment the average response time of technical support does not exceed 24 hours, and we are constantly improving our working process. Please email us to support@tourdash.com for any of your questions and we will help you as soon as possible.

 
Thank you all again for your answers! Keep in touch!
P.S. From the 15th of June, as it was said in the previous post, we show a banner for all demo tours, which are located not on resellers’ websites.

Important! TourDash demo tours terms and conditions

Hello there! A very important information about TourDash demo tours terms and conditions is presented in this post. Please pay your attention to avoid unintended consequences because of violation.
As you all know, demo tours are not meant for usage on customers’ websites. They are are only meant for usage on resellers’ websites to show the possibilities to their customers.
We have noticed that in some cases resellers have placed demo tours on multiple clients’ websites for long period of time. This clearly is not what demo versions are intended for.
Starting June 15th, all demo tours published not on your own website will show a banner with the following information: “Demo Version For Non Commercial Use Only”. It will of course still allow your customers to see many advantages of TourDash. Please make sure your own website is mentioned in your profile, otherwise demo’s published on your own website will show this message as well.
We believe you understand this measure and are confident it will not influence the positive effect of demo tours on your business.
For all questions please write to support@tourdash.com. Thank you!

Take part in our small spring survey!

Hello, there! How are you doing? Summer is coming and it means that we all are going to have some awesome time. Picnics, hikes, walks, vacations, relaxing and chilling with friends outside. But also summer is a good time for productive work and bringing to life ambitious plans, isn’t it?
This summer we are going to implement some new functionality and make several cool innovations with TourDash. That is why we want to make a small research about our service and to know your true opinion about TourDash.
The survey contains only six questions so filling it doesn’t take a lot of time! Please give us five minutes of your time in order to help us to be better. Thank you very much in advance!

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Custom colors for your TourDash tour

Do you remember the last winner of “TourDash tour of the month”? In that tour a cool solution of custom colors for the tour elements was used.
In this post we’ll tell you how to use elements custom colors for your tour.
To modify the colors of the elements of the tour you need a little knowledge of HTML and CSS. But even if you don’t know don’t worry, we have prepared ready-to-use snippets of code that you can use in your tour.
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.
So, first let’s change the background and text color in the navigation menu.  In order to do this copy the following snippet to CSS-panel, and click Apply Styles.
The following snippet will allow us to change the highlight color of the active item in the navigation menu.

So we’ve got such navigation menu:

However, for a complete transformation, we still need to change the popups’ color. Let’s proceed. To begin let’s change popup background color.
Now, popups’ text color and heading color.


Well, now we’ve changed colors of all the main elements of the tour. In conjunction with custom markers for dynamic hotspots and custom fonts you can get a unique design and ambiance for your tour.

Upgrades of TourDash tours mobile version

Hello there! We have some awesome news for TourDash users! We have received a lot of questions about mobile capability of our tours and especially about customizing some mobile tours elements. So we finally implemented this feature. Now you are able to change the following properties of the first mobile screen which appears before the actual tour: button “Tap to view the virtual tour” color, font color and screen layout. We hope it helps to make your tours more attractive!
Let’s look at some print screens. This is how old button and first mobile screen look like:

You can change the button on the “Embed” page in a new “Mobile” tab:

Also instead of white background in old version you can set a preview for your tour which will be shown on a mobile screen under the button. All you need to do is to check “Show tour preview in mobile version” check box. In mobile preview your tour starting position will be shown:

 
Then final mobile screen will look like this:

Important note! After you have made all the changes copy the new embed-code and embed it to your website.
New mobile opportunities are already available. Go ahead and try it out!

10 best Google Street View galleries ever

Hello everybody! In this post we’ve collected all the best Google Street View galleries with plenty of amazing virtual tours of absolutely different world places. Most of the panoramas are just breathtaking! Enjoy it!
1. UNESCO World Heritage
A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as being of special cultural or physical significance. Visit the wonders of world, the greatest buildings and nature places of different countries.

2. Remote Islands of the World
View the worlds most remote and isolated islands. The collection includes islands of the Chagos Marine Reserve (Indian Ocean), La Martinique (Carribbean), Pitcairns (Pacific), the Papahaumokuakea Marine National Monument (Pacific) and plenty of others.

3. Animals and Wildlife
Enjoy these images of animals in their natural habitats around the world.

4. Oceans
Inconceivable submarine world collection of all the oceans of this planet. Play with Sea Lions, spy on small exotic fish, swim with dolphins and feel the energy of the main force of the Earth – oceans.

5. The World’s Highest Peaks
The collection of World’s Highest Peaks maps multiple bases along the Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, the highest point of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in Africa. Other features include Mount Elbrus in Russia, and the Buddhist Tengboche Monastery nestled in the Sagarmatha National Park.

6. Ski Resorts and Slopes
Find yourself going down from the mountain skiing and watch marvelous winter landscapes.

7. Art Project
Art Project is a collection of art installations and exhibits throughout the world covering modern art to street art. Notable collections include those encased within the White House to the opulent designs of the Palace of Versailles. Awesome experience for art lovers!

8. Government Buildings and Residences
Virtually visit and explore the grandeur and history of legislative buildings and official residences from around the world.

9. University Campuses
Want to know how the best universities of the world look like? Watch where students of different counties study.

10. TV Studios and Sets
Explore famous television studios and sets from around the world on Street View.

Google Street View: interesting facts and ideas for inspiration

Hello there! Today we want to share with you our inspiration from Google Street View and work their team has been doing. Take a little break from your work and get some interesting information that can help you to catch fresh motivation and creativity wave. 

What is Google Street View?

Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide. Streets with Street View imagery available are shown as blue lines on Google Maps.
Today Google Street View includes:

How does all this work?

Google Street View displays panoramas of stitched images. Most photography is done by car, but some of it is done by trekker, tricycle, walking, boat, snowmobile, and underwater equipment.

How to explore?

With Google Street View you can explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants and small businesses. 

• Track the Loch Ness monster, scale the famed rock wall El Capitan in Yosemite, and hike Mt. Fuji in this gallery of Google’s best contributions.
• Also you can use special Google Street View application for Android or iPhone and explore content from others, and create your own.

 
To be in touch and get all the news from Google Maps and Google Street View you can also follow the official blog and Facebook page.
Hope you enjoy exploring all these amazing things about Google Street View and watching several unbelievable places just sitting in your room. And please don’t forget that any tour can be even more awesome with Tourdash. 🙂

Our blog and social media

Hey, guys! How are you doing? We are doing very well! Now we are working on improvements at our website. And today we want to inform you that we are going to renew our awesome blog and all the social media activity. Therefore, during the next several months you will see a lot of interesting posts here and on our Facebook page. We prepared some interesting topics for you and we really want to communicate with you more.
In addition, we are launching a regular newsletter and very soon you will receive our first informing letter about cool new feature in TourDash tours.

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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!

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Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
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 good day! 🙂