The Panoramr home page: what each section does

The home page at www.panoramr.com introduces Panoramr to someone who has never used it and sends them to the next step: sign up, try a tour, watch the video, or read the page for their kind of work. This page lists each part, top to bottom.

Who sees it. Everybody; nothing on it needs a plan or an account. A few links change with the visitor and with the switches TourHQ holds (the Try page, the Designs gallery, Vaults); each says so below.

Not part of it. The home page has the site's top bar and footer, which are not described here, and no prices: a price on the page would be read from the plans, never typed.

The top of the page

Sign up for free

The blue button under the headline "Share 360° moments. Build professional tours."

Where: Home page, the first button of the top section. Default: Always shown. What it does: Opens the sign-up page. A free account needs no card (Free account has what it includes). What visitors see: The sign-up form. Related: Free account.

Explore tours

The white button beside Sign up for free.

Where: Home page, the second button of the top section, and again at the bottom. Default: Always shown. What it does: Opens Explore, the public gallery of tours. What visitors see: The Explore page. Related: Post a 360 photo.

Try it free, no sign-up

A link under the two buttons that starts a tour without an account.

Where: Home page, a small line under the buttons. Default: Shown only while TourHQ has the Try page switched on. A signed-in person sees "Create new tour" in its place. When the Designs gallery is on, the same line adds "Or see the designs your tours can have." What it does: Opens the Create Tour page. A visitor can build a small tour there before making an account. What visitors see: The upload page of a try tour, with the limits it shows; see Try without an account. Needs: The Try page switched on in TourHQ. Related: Try without an account.

The middle of the page

Panoramr in 2 minutes

A short video that shows making a tour, with its captions drawn into the picture.

Where: Home page, the picture with a big play button under the top section. Default: Not playing. Nothing of the video loads until you press play. What it does: Pressing the play button starts the video; the player's own controls then appear. Search engines are told about the video with its length and date. What visitors see: The video, the captions in the picture, and a plain label for screen readers saying what it shows. Related: Are you…

Are you…

A chooser that asks who you are and sends you to the page that fits.

Where: Home page, under the video. The words are "Choose one, and we'll show you where to start." Default: Nothing chosen; the row underneath says "Your options show here once you choose." What it does: You pick one of three: A venue manager, A virtual tour professional or An estate agent. A second row then asks a question: a venue manager is asked "Where are you with photos?" (I need photos taking, I have 360° photos, I have a 360° camera, I'm not sure what I need) and a professional "What do you want to do?" (host my clients' tours, get found by venues, work with clients and hand tours over, all of these). An estate agent goes straight to the next step. A choice then shows a "Next" bar with the page it leads to and a button for it; "I need photos taking" and "I have 360° photos" add a second button (Find a photographer, Start creating). Under the chooser, a line for people only browsing links to Explore. Each pick is counted in Google Analytics only when you have accepted analytics in the cookie banner. Your pick is remembered for the visit, so Back finds the chooser as you left it. What visitors see: A page of its own for that choice: the venue pages, the pages for 360° professionals, or the page for estate agents. Each starts with a short video. Needs: Nothing. Related: Industry and venue pages.

What is Panoramr?

A dark panel that says what Panoramr is in three short parts.

Where: Home page, the panel headed "Turn 360° photos into virtual tours". Default: Always shown. What it does: Explains in plain words: Create (add photos, link rooms, add text and media, choose a design; free to start with unlimited draft tours), Publish (a new tour is a private draft; a free account can publish on Explore or embed it, with Panoramr's branding and a free theme) and Host (hosting puts your own branding on a tour and lets it wear a Pro theme). Two links, "See the plans" and, only while Vaults are on sale, "Hosting for one tour", lead to the plans and to the Vault page. What visitors see: A drawing of the player beside the text, with a real photo in it. The drawing is not clickable. Related: Free publishing and plan hosting.

Why Panoramr

Six cards that show what the product does.

Where: Home page, under the heading "Everything you need to create, host and sell tours". Default: Always shown. What it does: The cards are Host individual tours, Share tours with clients, Showcase your own tours, Get found for projects, Theme designer and Inbuilt analytics. Each is a drawing with one sentence; none is a link. What visitors see: The six cards. Related: See every feature.

See every feature

A link under the six cards.

Where: Home page, below Why Panoramr. Default: Always shown. What it does: Opens the Features page. What visitors see: The list of feature pages; see Features pages. Related: Features pages.

How it works

Three steps from camera to a shared tour.

Where: Home page, the dark panel headed "Create a tour in three steps". Default: Step one, Shoot, is selected. What it does: Pressing a step shows its text and a picture: Shoot (any modern 360° camera or a DSLR), Upload (drag your panoramas into the dashboard) and Publish (share the link, embed it, or download it and host it yourself). The picture of the last step has a Copy link button that only changes its own label. What visitors see: The step you chose. The pictures are drawings. Related: Create your first tour.

Start your first tour

A button at the top right of the How it works panel.

Where: Home page, in the panel's top corner. Default: Always shown. What it does: Opens the sign-up page. What visitors see: The sign-up form. Related: Sign up for free.

The foot of the page

Frequently asked

Five questions and short answers.

Where: Home page, the pale panel near the foot. Default: The first question is open. What it does: Pressing a question opens it and closes the other. The questions are: do I need a special camera, can I embed tours on my own website, does Panoramr support VR headsets, can I add interactive hotspots, is Panoramr good for real estate. The same five are told to search engines as the page's list of questions. The FAQ has many more. What visitors see: The answers as plain text. The longer list is at the FAQ. Related: The Help Center and FAQ.

Build your first tour today

The blue panel at the very end of the page.

Where: Home page, above the footer. Default: Always shown. What it does: Repeats the two buttons: Get started for free opens the sign-up page and Explore tours opens Explore. What visitors see: The same pages as the buttons at the top. Related: Sign up for free.

Troubleshooting

I do not see "Try it free, no sign-up". TourHQ has that switched off. Free account describes signing up instead.

The video does not play. It loads only when you press the play button. If your browser blocks video, the poster stays. Use another browser or the Help Center's guides.

The page looks different from this list. Pages change; this list was checked on the date at the top.