Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Control Freaks Welcome!


Time to take control of your virtual tours! We hope you will find our system clean and easy-to-use to display all of your property information!

First things first. Go ahead and add yourself as a new user by going here...hit "Agent Signup". Please include information for all the starred items, including uploading your company logo (keep it small!). If you are not sure what to do with the Facebook, Twitter, video, or even blog items, leave those go for now - we'll discuss those here.

Once you sucessfully create yourself as a user, we'll respond to you within a day to make sure you are a legitimate user and not some "bot".

Once you are accepted, you can login anytime here http://www.whirligighd.com/admin/

Once logged in, you have a few options. The main ones are "Add Listing", "Edit My Listings" and "Edit My Account". If you want to create a new listing, simply click the "Add Listing" button and it will take you to the listing screen where you can add the property information, add photos, panoramas (virtual tours) and even embed a video.

Keep in mind there are limits to the size of photos you need to upload. A good rule of thumb is to use the same size you load into the MLS, or 800x600 photos.

Panoramas are pretty much limited at this point to 180° - so please only upload partial panoramas for now.


Video "embed" code should be copied and pasted into the Video box in the listing screen.

Once all is done, you can click the "preview" button on the top of the listings information page. This will take you to your tour. This main tour you see is your BRANDED tour. To get an MLS-compliant non-branded tour, simply add &show=off at the end of the url and that will remove your personal information.

For instance, a branded tour will look like this:

The unbranded one will just add the &show=off at the end for this: