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Annew
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Floor plans

Post by Annew »

I'm just updating my website - one of my guests said it would be useful to have a floor plan on line as it's difficult to get the scale of my cottages just from the photos.

Does anyone else do this? if so, can I have a sneaky peek at your website to see how it looks.

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Post by kendalcottages »

I've seen this mentioned a couple of times recently.

Have you seen http://www.floorplanner.com/ ?
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Post by Margaret »

We have had lots of discussions on this - I'm sure somebody will be able to give the links. I would say it is a huge advantage to give floor plans. And why not?
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Post by paolapasino »

I did put a plan of my flat in Pragelato... I thought it would be a more intuitive way of getting the message across...its on my od page and it is a part of the instructions that I send to who emails me. If you want to have a look send me an email and I will attach it in my reply!
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I included a floorplan on my site (link below). I drew it up myself with floorplanner and it wasn't difficult, once I'd worked out the measurements.
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Post by Windy »

I have two at

http://www.windermerecabin.co.uk/kingfi ... orplan.htm

and http://www.windermerecabin.co.uk/otter_ ... orplan.htm

They took about a morning between them using floorplanner.com including the hot spots on the Windermere one. The Otter Lodge hotspots are "coming soon"

EDIT both now done
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Post by Martha »

I have one with pics
http://www.chaletlaforet.com/chalet/floorplans.html

and one with 360 views

http://www.chaletlaforet.com/vr_tour/floorplans_vr.html

They are really useful for clients who want to have a good look to see if the space is suitable, especially for families.

They're from Floorplanner with a few things put in afterwards, like the rug. Then I made the page up with Lightbox for the pics - you do need to know a bit of HTML to do this though.

This reminds me that I have one for the garden too, must get that up.
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Post by Windy »

Lightbox works much better than the popup window I use on mine - I might borrow the idea if I can work it out :-)
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You could check mine out here. It's brand new and developed by a LayMyHatter. Just ironing out some glitches but it has already received some great feedback. I have a couple more photos to add but am very pleased so far.

I use this site to test out new stuff so I can try before I review anything on my blog.

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Post by Windy »

Martha - thanks for sharing your plan - It spurred me on to "lightboxing" my own two maps (which is a much better way of showing the linked pictures).

You might be interested in this link

http://www.huddletogether.com/forum/com ... ionID=3467

which explains a small tweak to Lightbox that makes it work with image maps and gets you away from having to create table cells to store the links.
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Post by Martha »

ooo nice find windy - thanks!!!!
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Post by Windy »

I've put together the Windy 10 steps to an image mapped floor plan here.

viewtopic.php?p=157258#157258
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