by Kris Cone | Jan 11, 2013 | Help & FAQ, What's New
It appears that due to recent changes to how Google and YouTube account access works, IF you have set up 2-step verification in your Google account (meaning you no longer login to YouTube with a separate YouTube user name, but you use your Google account user name, which is likely your Google email) you will not be able to post videos to your own YouTube channel until you create an application specific password in your Google account. Please check Google help for how to do this. Thanks a lot Google for making our lives safer!
To learn more go to https://www.google.com/settings/security and then select Manage Access and create an application specific password, and then copy and paste that password, along with your login name, in our profile page for linking.
by Kris Cone | Dec 19, 2012 | Listing Tools, Tour Updates, What's New
Exciting News! One new cool feature of the new floor plan drawing tool with real-time editing is the ability to generate photo-realistic images of floor plans, right within your account. Just edit the plan how you want by adding in more details and features, like beds, couches, rugs and more, save your changes, and then select the 3D Render option under the Share icon. Enter in your email, pick a size of the image and the plan orientation, and add a top color to the walls, if you want. You will get some images like this view below. Pretty cool!
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PS. we also added a link called Corrections & Notes, which takes you to the old plan editing tool…if you are more comfortable with that. But we highly encourage the new Edit FloorPlans tool because you can change text, add a missing door or window, save, and update your tour, flyer and more within minutes! No more waiting!
by Kris Cone | Jul 19, 2012 | Listing Tools, Tour Updates, What's New
We just released an enhancement to our cool new embeddable tour widget – a WordPress Plugin! The plugin makes it easier to add your tour content to your WordPress powered website. There are no configuration options for the plugin on your WordPress site. Just follow the instructions below to add the plugin to your site, and then all configuration options for the tour content are done within your FloorPlanOnline Account.
If you do not have a website powered by WordPress, you can ignore this whole post!
Plan as a Button
We also added a new option to show the actual floorplan image of the listing as the button for the pop-up tour, so you can put some “eye candy” on your site. Try it here by clicking the image.
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This enhancement is a great way to showcase your listing content, keep users on YOUR site, and give buyers what they really want to see – FloorPlans!
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Help Video
You can view the help video on how to use the embeddable content widget by clicking this image (or go to Help Videos under Support).
There are a few steps to get started
1. You need to first download the WordPress plugin. You can download it here (or there is a link on the Embedded Content page in your FPO account).
2. Go to your WordPress admin login, select Plugins and Add New. Find the plugin you just downloaded (probably will go to your Downloads folder on your computer), and then upload it to your website, then Activate it.
3. Login to your FloorPlanOnline account, go to Manage Tours, and then click the Photos & Marketing tools link to get to the Marketing Center. Then click the Embeddable Tour Content button.
4. Once there, check the box to Use on a WordPress website, configure how you want the content to show, and then just copy and paste the short code into your page or post where you would like the button or the tour content to show. IMPORTANT – Select the HTML tab right above the post or page content BEFORE you paste the short code….if you do not, then WordPress may add additional information to the code that will not make it work properly. Also, some plugins may conflict with our plugin. Right now, we are aware that the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin causes our plugin for the embeddable tour to not work. We are looking to fix this, but just disable plugins and refresh your page if you have this problem, and notify us of the plugin causing the problem and we will review for a potential fix.
5. When ready, hit Publish. The short code should display the content in your site. More instructions about how to edit the content options are on the Embeddable Content page.
by Kris Cone | Jun 13, 2012 | Listing Tools, Tour Updates, What's New
I am really excited to introduce the newest creation from the FloorPlanOnline Dev Shop – Embeddable Tours! We have had ways to embed the video or the floor plan widget into a website page for years now, but with this new enhancement, you can embed all or just a part of the tour into your website! You can pick what content tabs to show – show just the floorplan (which removes the tabs), the floorplan and roomplanner, or all content. A video on how to set it up is here – just click the image to the right.
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You have two display options:
1. Embed it using a button (select one of ours or upload your own button style) that pops the tour over your website….so the user never leaves the site…they just click, the tour opens over the page, they view, they like, they call you with an offer. This is great for websites that might have a pretty narrow content area or you can’t mess with the overall layout, or the in-line embedded view just would be too small. You could also put this in a widget area on your website.
Try it here by clicking this button (or you can upload your own button).
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Or you can select the Plan Based Button that shows the first floor plan image as the button.
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2.Embed it in-line with your content, just like this example below. We provide different sizes, but you can manually adjust the size to fit any pixel dimension you want. Just change the width and height dimension in the simple code you copy and paste. The content will adjust automatically and display it in an optimized format for the selected size!
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Each option allows the complete showing of all the tour content, on your site. It even works on the iPad! No more annoying pop-ups, page resizes, or LEAVING YOUR SITE! The user stays where they should, sees the content and leaves a happy camper. Plus, with either option, you get a full screen option to see the photos, video, or floor plan. You can even use our lead capture page to get the lead (we are working on some ideas here… :))
To get started, go to Manage Tours/select the Photos & Marketing Tools link for your listing, and then select the Embeddable Tour Content button. Configure it to how you want it displayed, including selecting what content to show first, and then just copy and paste it into your website (like a WordPress site), a blog, or many corporate websites. Your site and the users site does need to allow for javascript in order for the button to work…but most users allow for this.
The example above was done using the embedded tour option. Note, you can configure both the embedded tour and the button and use the code. Both work independently of the other. This is an example of just embedding the roomplanner tool.
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We would love more feedback on this feature. This is our first iteration, so I am sure there are some things to adjust or improve upon. Please comment below or send us an email to sales@floorplanonline.com and we can review your comments and ideas!
by Kris Cone | Jun 13, 2012 | Listing Tools, Real Estate Info, What's New
We have made a few requested updates to the Tabbed Tour viewer. The Tabbed Tour viewer is a template option for your tours, either when you create a new tour (or go to Edit Details) or in your proile. It is also the default viewer when you view the tour content on an iPad.
Several changes were made, as follows:
Default Media View
Now, when you select the default media to be the FloorPlan, Video or Photos, that selection will work for the Tabbed Tour. Previously, it only worked on the 2.0 Web Page Tour. The Dashboard view for the Tabbed Tour is the Home Tab.
For the Unbranded Tour, we also removed the top Header, so there is no contact info showing (previously it showed our branding). One little fix to be done is add the Address to the Details tab, since that was showing up in the header. That will be fixed in the next day or so.
Embedded and Side by Side FloorPlan Views for Interactive Floor Plan Tours
Both the Tabbed Tour and the Web Page tour now support two floor plans views. The default is the photos side by side the floorplan. However, you can now click the icon next to change view, and it changes to the embedded plan view. Here you can move the image around and zoom in on the floor plan so it fills the whole content area. This is helpful for very large and wide floor plans that might have had issues.
To use the tabbed tour for any of your tours, just go to Manage Tours, then click Edit Details for a tour. Select the Tabbed Tour as the Tour Frame Type at the top of the page. If you want to use this for all of your tours going forward, go to Edit Profile and make the selection. Next time you create a tour, it will default to that view. To default to the floor plan view for any or all of your tours, scroll down to the section titled Content Display Options and select the desired content under Show by Default. You can do this on the Edit Details page or Edit Profile page.
Enjoy!
by Kris Cone | May 23, 2012 | Listing Tools, What's New
We are pleased to announce the release of our new Marketing Center layout, which is the centerpiece for how you quickly and easily get access to your FloorPlanOnline Interactive Floor Plan | Video content, both for online and offline use.
The new marketing center more logically lays out the placement of web links to your Interactive Floor Plan Tours or Video Tours, buttons for downloadable content, such as photos, your flyer or various file formats for your floor plans, and it includes quick access to xpressdocs so you can print your marketing flyers and brochures through xpressdocs and even import the images our photographers take to xpressdocs to use their 1, 2 or 4 page brochures or “Just Listed Postcards”
It also more directly shows you how to set up our Featured Listing app on your Facebook business page and more!
I would like to thank the FPO Dev team in making this new release a reality!
As part of this, we and xpressdocs are offering a 20% discount on your xpressdocs order before June 30th. To see the coupon code, visit our Facebook page, click the Big Sale image and Like Us, and you will then see the coupon.
One other small improvement. All of our modern tour templates (excludes the 1.0) now has 2 floor plan views. You can click the icon to change from the side by side view to an embedded plan view. This is the icon to the right of Change View. This makes wider, larger floor plans easier to see. You can move the image around for better viewing as well. This is also available on the iPad tour.
