Introducing the new layout

February 23, 2010, 7:24 am

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We are introducing a new layout for our PLUS and PRO users. This new layout allows you to add more relevant information to your floor plans like photo's, video's and 360 virtual tours and also shows the exact location on Google maps. You can even see the surroundings of your property through Google streetview.

Another nice new feature is that it gives you more branding opportunities. You can choose a custom background like a repeatable pattern or choose a bigger image that your visitors will see when they load the plan. On top of that image, you can place a custom preloader image that can link to your site.

Regular users of Floorplanner will also appreciate some of the improvements regarding the usability like maximized workspace and easy access to frequent used functions like edit publish settings and more.

To get an idea on the improvements please take a look at the video below that highlights some of the new features or click on one of the sample plans to play around with the new layout yourself.



So how do I get this new layout?

The new layout is currently only available to PLUS and PRO accounts. You can enable it by going to the "account" tab and change your preference to "use new layout" When you enable the new layout you might want to spend a bit of time in getting familiar with the themes. This can be done in the "profile" tab directly in the new layout so you can instantly see the changes in colors and background.

If you experience any issues with the new layout please let use know through support@floorplanner.com Make sure you mention which browser and OS you are using and if possible send us a screenshot of the problems you encounter. If you are not happy with the new layout you can always switch back to the existing layout using the "account" tab and all your plan will be shown as they were before.

In the coming period we will be further refining the new layout and iron out the remaining bugs and we are looking forward to your feedback!

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Showcase: Vis-Home

March 16, 2010, 4:54 am

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Floorplanner is used by more and more companies that offer online interactive floor plans to their clients. Vis-Home, Inc. (USA) is one of those companies but uses Floorplanner in a kind of special way. Instead of drawing their plans directly within floorplanner, they draw the initial floor plans in 2D in their own software and export those results to an interactive, online plan on demand. Through the API they can automatically send the data of the plan from their software to Floorplanner with an interactive 3D floor plan as a result. Vis-Home has been with us from the start and their use of Floorplanner has been growing ever since.

In their own words:

"Vis-Home provides interactive presentations (floor plans + pictures) for real estate listings and Floorplanner furniture planner & 3D viewer are major additions to our product. In fact, we consider Floorplanners to be so valuable that we offer them at no extra cost to our customers. The Floorplanner team is highly professional, very responsive and it is always a pleasure to work with them. For about 2 years that Vis-Home works with Floorplanner we used it for over 6500 properties and we look forward to continue our cooperation."

- Alex Eydelman, Owner Vis-Home, Inc.

Showcase: Realstar.ca

April 15, 2010, 2:51 am

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Realstar Management is one of the largest property managers in Canada. In 2009 the Toronto-based creative marketing agency Philter Communications re-developed Realstar’s most important marketing tool – realstar.ca. Within the new website Floorplanner PRO was used to add interactive floor plans to the listings

“The new Web site was launched with two main goals in mind; help renters easily find great places to live, and build online brand recognition. The Web site needed to be easily accessible and have the ability to maintain a high-quality user experience. For this we looked to many different interactive floor-planning tools but realized quickly that there was only one company that would best support our requirements.

Floorplanner.com offered a creative and unique outlook on visualizing living space online. With floorplanner.com, realstar.ca users can now interact with each individual apartment, adding their own furniture, carpets, office equipment, and so on, ultimately giving shape to empty space, and designing their own home.

The user experience that comes with Floorplanner gives realstar.ca an advantage over competing Web sites, which results in more online traffic, a better online experience, and returning users. With Floorplanner we can also easily create, manage and customize each floor plan when needed, the simple back-end admin portal is easy to navigate and understand, which in the end allows us to make changes quickly when needed.

With Floorplanner, we know that our floor plans are the most interactive and user-friendly online. Floorplanner was a great decision.”

Kevin Hisko, Director New media and technology – Philter Communications


For more information on apartments for rent in Canada feel free to visit realstar.ca or find out more about what Floorplanner PRO can do for your site.

Improving our translations

June 11, 2010, 6:35 am

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We have been providing Floorplanner in 12 languages for some time now. Thanks to our users' feedback we have learned that some of these are still incomplete or could use some improvement. Also, some other languages could use some boost to be finally released. Our goal is to have a well translated user interface for all languages our users speak.

For Indonesian, Russian, Hebrew we could use some extra translators to get them online soon. For the existing Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, Brasilian, Italian and Chinese versions, we could use some help with checking the translations throughout the whole site. Just correcting the grammar now and then or providing some translations for new pages or furniture would help improve it greatly.

If you want to contribute all, you have to do is to send us an email with the following details: Your name, the language(s) you want to translate and optionally some details or background on why you would make a good translator. After we receive and approve your application, we'll soon send you a mail with all the instructions, the rules and a link to the translation dashboard.

Active translators will of course receive a free PLUS subscription.

Floorplanner and Google Apps

June 15, 2010, 10:26 am

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From today on you can use Floorplanner within your own Google domain as we are now available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Any company or organization that uses Google apps can now easily add Floorplanner for all their users within their domain.

With a single sign-on, your users can access all Floorplanner PRO functionality and next to that they can export results to Google Docs, share plans using their Gmail contact list and get an overview of their plans on Google maps.

Check out the post on the official Google blog or try out the integration yourself at the Google app marketplace

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Floorplanner Now Available on the Google Apps Marketplace
[15 june 2010] -- Floorplanner.com today announced it has added Floorplanner PRO to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Floorplanner is the leading online floor planning application that allows users to easily create and share interactive floor plans with just a browser and an Internet connection. Floorplanner PRO gives real estate agents and other building professionals the best tools to create compelling floor plans for their property listings and make them stand out.

"Floorplanner has been a pioneer in offering cloud-based drawing tools for the real estate industry, so integrating with Google Apps was a logical choice for us," says Jeroen Bekkers, CEO, Floorplanner.com. "By adding Floorplanner PRO to the Google Apps Marketplace, we've made it extremely easy for Google Apps customers to create interactive 2D and 3D floor plans themselves and share results using various Google Data API's like Google spreadsheets, maps and contacts.

Floorplanner is an simple yet powerful web-based drawing application to create compelling 2D and 3D floor plans without almost no learning curve. With over 2 million registered users including thousands of professionals, Floorplanner is the world’s most used online floor planning platform.

"We are very happy to have Floorplanner PRO in the Google Apps Marketplace," adds Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise. "Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like Floorplanner.com are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that work seamlessly with Google Apps, allowing IT administrators to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and extend Google Apps to meet more of their business needs. We are excited to make 2D and 3D drawing tools easier for the millions of Google Apps users who have embraced the cloud."

The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit google.com/appsmarketplace.

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail™ webmail service, Google Talk™ instant messaging service, Google Calendar™ calendaring service, Google Docs™ program, Google Sites™ web application, and Google Video™ for business on their own domain to work together more effectively. Best of all, it's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.
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Introducing our 3D print service

July 7, 2010, 5:58 am

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We are excited to introduce a new addition to the Floorplanner platform: 3D printing.

In collaboration with Materialise, the market leader in 3D printing, we now offer an easy and cost effective way for all floorplanner users to turn their virtual plans into real 3D models.

3D models can be a great addition for property developers or real estate agents looking for a unique and insightful presentation of the houses they have for sale, but it also makes a great gift for new home-owners. Holding a 3D scale model of a design you have spent time and energy on creates a special feeling. A real life scale model tells you much more than a digital file.

For the coming month you can try out this new service at a special introduction price of 129$ per floor. Go to our 3D print page and follow the instructions and you can have your model on your desk in 10 working days.

Publish floor plans to pl.an

July 27, 2010, 5:14 am

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We are happy to announce a new service: pl.an. Floor plans can now be published to this short and elegant domain, for example:

http://pl.an/plasrode-5

Until recently, plans could only be published to a subdomain of Floorplanner, like this: http://gouwestad.floorplanner.com/plasrode-5 We think that the new domain pl.an offers a better and prettier way to present your floor plans. It's short, elegant and right on target: it's a plan. The short domain pl.an is also ideal for sharing your plan on social sites like Twitter and Facebook.

The domain is directly available to all users with a paid account. Even all plans that have been published in the past, can be accessed through the pl.an domain. Just fill in the path (http://pl.an/path) and the floor plan will be loaded. Links using the subdomain will always remain active, so previously published plans won't be affected.

New layout update

September 16, 2010, 4:18 am

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Some of you are already using the beta version of our new layout. In the last few months we have been working on some improvements based on your feedback. We made some changes to the general look and feel, maximized workspace and made it easier to add media and maps to your plans. You can see the major changes below or try it out yourself if you are a PRO user. In the coming months we will be rolling out this new layout to all Floorplanner users but for now only PRO accounts can activate this new layout. You can do this by going into your account settings and look for the "change preferences" where you can set your account to the new layout.

Navigation

One of the things you will notice immediately is that we changed the way you navigate between your account pages. What used to be tabs in your dashboard, is now put into a small drop-down menu in the top-left corner. All your main pages like your dashboard, styles, account page, etc can be accessed through this menu and when you are editing your plan you can find this menu under your user name.

Maximized workspace

We have also made some improvements in the layout that you see when you are editing or viewing a plan. The icons for the tools now have different position giving you more room for your plan. Notice that you can switch the width of your sidebar and even double it's width (great for photo's) or hide it completely.

Styles

The way we you can add or edit styles is slightly changed. The position of the custom logo is now in the top right of the page and we use a simpler set of 3 theme colors instead of 4. You can also choose your own color or image for the background.

New Publish options

We have added some new options when you publish plans. All your published plans now use our short pl.an domain by default. You can also choose what information a visitor of your plan will see first and what size the sidebar has when when a plan is loaded. This gives you the option to publish your plan with a double with sidebar showing photo's or with a hidden sidebar that maximizes the viewing space. btw Photo's that are placed on a floor plan through an icon will now highlight when selected making it easier for your visitors to quickly understand where a photo has been taken.

New icons and other small improvements

The position and appearance of our plan editing icons has changed. Also we put the m/ft switch at the bottom of the page next to the scalebar.Also we change the place of the disclaimer that will now show underneath your floor plan and can be longer if needed

We hope these improvements help you to present your floor plans even better. If you have any questions, comments or discover a bug, please send us a mail at support@floorplanner.com or let us know in our forums

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Curved walls are here

September 30, 2010, 5:54 am

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We are happy to present a long awaited feature: the ability to create curved walls. Until now you had to split walls a couple of times to get an approximation of your curve. When you wanted a really smooth curve this could become a bit time consuming and cumbersome that's why many of you requested the ability to make real curved walls.

From now on you can make a nice curved wall with a simple click and drag operation. You can place windows and doors on them just like a normal wall and even have a sloped curved wall.

How does it work? First create a straight wall and place the points on the right position. Then click the wall and use the icon in the top to start curving. Move your mouse until your curve has the right shape and click to confirm. We made a small video to show you around.

Although we have tested it thoroughly, there still may be some improvements to make. If you notice any bugs the please send us an email or use our forum.

Wall color & transparency

November 17, 2010, 5:26 am

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The most requested feature (even more requested than curving walls) was the ability of applying color to walls. About 20% of the questions in the last couple of months was “How can I color my walls?” and after some testing & tweaking we are glad we can now reply to these questions with a simple instruction on how to add color to your walls.
So how does it work?
It’s really simple. View your plan in 3D and just click on a wall to get the wall coloring menu. The actual picking of colors probably doesn’t need any explanation and if you don’t like your chosen color, you can use the reset button to go back to the uncolored state. We also added an RGB code field that allows you to copy and paste a color from one wall to another.

But there is more: Transparency
As a bonus, we also added a transparency setting. Not only you can play with the coloring of your space, but you can also make a wall more or less invisible to give a better impression of the interior.

Both the color as the transparency are applied to only one side of a wall. This allows you to look into rooms from the outside using a transparant setting while the wall is still non-transparent when you look at this wall from inside.

We hope you like this update but please feel free to use our forum to give suggestions in improving the workflow or report any bugs you might run into.

Rooms with a view

December 15, 2010, 5:59 am

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A while ago we released an update that allows users with a PLUS or PRO account to add media (like photos and videos) to their floor plans. Today we are proud to announce that we have enhanced the media functionality with improved support for panorama/360 photos.

You can now upload any large photo and create a panorama-like experience. This feature works best with so called equirectangular images, these are images that are created with a 360 camera or special software. But you can also use this effect for normal (wide) images. Just select “Panorama from my computer” from the media drop-down and upload your image. A spherical 360 viewer will be created for your image and like any other media item you can place a pointer on the floor plan to show where this view was created.

How do you create those panorama images?
Up until now, creating panorama/360 photos needed either specialized cameras, or specialized software to stitch a series of photos into one big image. However, as mobile devices become more powerful, there are easier alternatives to create this kind of experiences. The recently introduced 360 iPhone app by Occipital is a great example of how easy it can be to create panorama photos. Within minutes you can create and publish a 360 image with only your iPhone. The resulting link can be inserted directly within Floorplanner by selecting the “Occip.it panorama” option in the media drop-down and paste the given link. Click here to see a demo of a 360 photo of our office that was created and added to the floorplan within 2 minutes.

December discount
You can get the 360 panorama app for a discounted price of $0.99 for a limited time at the iTunes store and start adding panorama's to your floorplans right away. Note we tested the panorama capturing on both an iPhone 3gs and an iPhone 4 and found out that the iPhone 4 does create better panoramas. So if you have an iPhone 4 and a Floorplanner PLUS or PRO account head over to the app store and get the Occipital app so you can make even more compelling presentations of your properties.

Our new and improved gallery

March 13, 2011, 1:44 am

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Recently we temporarily removed our gallery of public floor plans as we had a few improvements in mind. As of today, we're happy to say that the gallery is now back and better than ever.

With so many designs, we figured the best way to present the gallery was by dividing it into three different sections: Featured, Fresh and Published.

Featured
The featured section is much like the gallery we had before, featuring designs that we noticed and wanted to share with you. The floor plans you'll find in this section will give you a good idea of what Floorplanner is capable of, and a good look at what people are using the website for — from building their dream holiday home, to laying out a sculpture garden or even their new café. In any case, there's plenty of inspiration to be found in these projects, so please take a look.

Fresh
The fresh section of the gallery shows you all of designs that are being saved by our users right now — freshest designs first.

Published
Finally, we have the published section. This is where our all of our Plus and Pro users' published plans can be found for all the world to see. Many of the plans you'll see here are of houses that are being put up for sale or rent. So if like a design enough, there's a chance you could get the real thing

We hope that you enjoy the new gallery, whether you just want to have a quick browse, or dig in a bit deeper for some inspiration (the best artists steal, after all).

New dashboard, listings and actions

April 11, 2011, 7:01 am

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Over the past weeks you may have noticed a few changes on your Floorplanner account: an improved dashboard; better project listings; and new project actions. Some of these are new features, while others are improvements of existing ones –
so let’s have a quick look at how they work and what’s new.


Dashboard
First of all, the dashboard has been updated. Recent projects should now tell you more at a glance, with a full rundown of the number of designs and floors in the project, its public or private visibility, and even a little thumbnail of the project itself. There’s also a news section featuring our Weblog, Facebook and Twitter feeds, where you’ll find new information and posts about new features – like this one! Finally, there’s a new introduction video to help new users get straight into drawing their floor plans.

Project listings
Next up, we’ve improved project listings. Your listings now show the number of designs and floors in your projects; private or public visibility; and the date the design was created, and when it was last modified. We’ve also placed the search bar in a more prominent position to make finding a project that little bit easier.

Project actions
Lastly, we’ve got a brand new feature: project actions. Actions make doing things with your floor plans much, much easier. Just hover over a project in your listings and you should see a new “Actions” button, giving you quick access to a wide range of operations: duplication, moving a floor plan to another user, collaboration, or even downloading the FML file – and these are just a few of the possible actions available. Actions are also contextual, so depending on the status of the project (basic, private, published), you’ll have different actions available to you – keeping things streamlined, quick and clean.

So get dashboard-ing, listing-ing and actioning – we’ve got plenty more coming up!

Faster image export

May 28, 2011, 11:52 am

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Though it’s tempting to kick back with a cool drink here in sunny Rotterdam, we’ve been working hard to improve your experience on Floorplanner. And last week, we released a big update to image exporting.

And when we say big, we mean big: we’ve built an entirely new system to handle the generation of floor plan images. It’s much more efficient, and this means we can do some exciting new things – starting with making image exporting available to everyone.

In the past, image exporting was only available to paid users of Floorplanner. But with the new system, users with Basic accounts can now export their floor plans to a 640x480 JPG file – perfect for your blog, Facebook profile, or Twitter.

Users with Plus accounts will now find they can export images all the way up to 2100x2800 pixels in size, a little over double what was available prior to the update. This means that whereas previously exported images could be used as a modest desktop wallpaper, it’s now possible to export images that will look clean and crisp in print.

Pro account users will see the most welcome changes, and for us, this is what the new system was built for. The first thing users will notice is that the new system is much faster, and far more stable. We hope that this alone will make an enormous difference to Pro account users’ experiences when exporting images. The second major difference is that image scaling has changed: whereas previously all designs in a project were resized to fit the image – making the scale of a large ground floor mismatch a smaller attic, for instance – now all designs are exported to the same scale, eliminating any confusion regarding mysteriously growing rooms.

Finally, we’ve added image exporting to the Floorplanner API. This means that portals and users with API access can request an image of any design in any size they like, and it’s as simple as that.

So we hope that you’ll find sharing and printing your floor plans easier than ever before, and we’ll be keeping you up to date with more improvements over the Summer.

Simpler accounts

June 30, 2011, 3:56 am

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We are always working on improving our service. Normally, we take small steps: we fix a bug, we change the page layout, or add a new feature. However, some issues can't be solved this way. Some require us to make big changes. This week we rolled out a major update that simplifies our account system: making it easier for users to understand, and better for us to manage.

Projects, not publishings

You signed up to Floorplanner to create and share floor plans, and that's what we want to make as easy as possible. We also want floor plans to be the core metric of our accounts: not the number of active published projects, but the number of projects total. This is a more straightforward metric, making it easier for you to work with Floorplanner. You will get a number of projects per month/year and you can decide for yourself what you want to do with them: export a project as an image, publish it, or put it on your website or download it as an FML file.

Take a look at our new plans & pricing page.

Less accounts

Over the last few years, our account system has grown to accommodate 14 different account types. It's become too complex and it's time to change that. So we're cutting that number down to 5 accounts. For private users, we have the free Basic account and the upgraded Plus account. For professional users we have three Pro accounts (Pro S, Pro M and Pro L), depending on the usage. The Partner account is for companies that want to partner with us and work with our API.

Seamless change

Most users won't notice any changes, so you'll still be able to use Floorplanner the way you always do. If you do encounter a problem, please contact us so we can help you right away.

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My account improvements

August 15, 2011, 3:24 pm

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We know that clicking matters. Every click counts towards the experience of Floorplanner.com - for better or worse - and the latest target of our click-awareness scheme is account information.

This kind information can be found in all kinds of places on the Floorplanner website – sometimes where people may not necessarily expect them to be. For our Plus and Pro customers this could become a little complicated, as you'd find your company details under one menu, invoices somewhere else, and subscriptions under another heading – it all adds up to a lot of clicking.

With that in mind, we've made things simpler for Plus and Pro customers and gathered all this information into the most logical place, the Floorplanner account page. From here you can oversee and modify your account to your heart's desire. Here's a quick overview, fittingly starting with the overview.

Overview

This tab gives you a quick look at your profile and company information, your latest invoices, and how many projects you've used out of your monthly allowance.

Profile

Here it's possible to modify all your account details, from your name to your profile picture. You can also change the language you'd like to use and what kind of measurement system you prefer, along with a few other options like changing your password or subscribing to the Floorplanner newsletter.

Company Info

Changed your company name? VAT number? Moved your headquarters to Brazil? Here you can edit your company details to reflect any recent changes to your business.

Invoices

From this tab it's not only possible to see all your recent invoices, their dates of payment and other details, but also to download them in PDF format.

Subscription

Lastly you can see your current subscription plan, alongside its monthly cost and associated benefits. You can also upgrade to other plans, cancel your current subscription, and see how much you can save if you pay per year.

And that's it. One heading, five menus, and far fewer clicks.

Moving Furniture Around

September 5, 2011, 9:32 am

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A floor plan without furniture would be little more than a square. Without it, there would be nowhere to sit, lie, write, eat, or tastefully arrange architecture magazines upon. So, it goes without saying that furniture is a big part of what makes Floorplanner Floorplanner, so we're happy to announce a big change to the way you use furniture on the site.

First of all, we've moved our massive furniture library out of the library window and into the sidebar – a lot of heavy lifting. As stated earlier, good furniture is one of the foundations of a good floor plan, and we've made this choice in order to bring it to the forefront of the Floorplanner experience.

Not only is the new sidebar view more spacious, but it will also introduce you to something you should notice straight away: all of our furniture is now rendered in 3D, making it much clearer as to exactly what you're putting in your floor plan. What was previously a brown circle is now a table. Two ovals now find themselves to be an office chair. The benefits are obvious.

And finally, we've added something that is going to make populating floor plans with furniture a snap, and that's search. All furniture is now searchable, which means you can get a quick look at lamps, desks, mats – or whatever you like – whenever it takes your fancy. Just search.

Improvements before the New Year

January 2, 2012, 9:25 am

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2012 is almost here and before the holidays we rolled out a string of updates and new features. And there is more to come in the new year. In this blog post we will highlight some of the smaller and bigger changes we have made to our site these past weeks.

Layout improvements

In 2011 we’ve been rolling out our new layout but there were still some parts of our site that needed to be updated with the new look & feel. For instance the editing & viewing pages and the general dashboard pages that you come across when you are logged in. There is now more consistency throughout the site and the sidebar menu takes up less space.

The same page structure has been implemented within the view & edit pages. Besides being more efficient in terms of used space, this means they also look better when published or shared. By simplifying things both visually & technically we have also increased the general speed of our website significantly.

No more ads

Another thing that might be noticed by our Free users is that we got rid of the ads on our website as we think this this improves the general user experience and also the speed. In time we might experiment with some new sponsored content options that contribute to the general usability but for now the ads are gone leaving more room for new features we are working on.

Furniture menu

More noticeable for all our users: we have finally made the step to move the libraries to the sidebar. Some of the most requested changes regarding the libraries were the ability to search, see objects in 3D, have larger thumbnails and see more furniture at the same time. Because the amount of objects has been growing to an amount that was difficult to manage and oversee, a new search-based interface was necessary. Tags will help you find more selective sets like “design”, “gymnastics”, “ikea” or “cabinets”.

This hasn’t come without bumps and we are aware it’s still not perfect. We wish to thank all people commenting on the forums for their valuable feedback so far. In the coming year we will work towards more options for customization, like bookmarking items you use more often or furniture suggestions based upon the type of plan you’re making. Our libraries will be further expanding as always and get more specialized. We are open for your suggestions, just let us know!

3D server side rendering

We started beta-testing our new 3D serverside renderings. This feature (PRO users only) allows you to create a more detailed, lively image from your 3D plans in high resolution. With a simple 2 click operation you can have images sent to you by mail in a matter of minutes. These images can be used in brochures and websites and have a quality that you would normally have to pay someone for to achieve. We are aware that there is a lot of room for improvement and that is why we are rolling it out as a beta so, as always, feedback is appreciated as we will further improve upon this. We can’t wait to see the images you will be producing with this new feature.

More to come in 2012

Finally, we wish you all a very merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year. We have lots of new features and improvements lined up so drop by regularly. Happy planning in 2012!

Vote for new items

February 23, 2012, 3:25 am

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Usually we get lots of questions about specific items that people want through our forum or support mail. Now we’d like to turn this around, we’re going to ask you what you want us to make, so we can prioritize a certain topic. For this, we’re having a facebook poll on a bunch of topic sets. So please, give us your opinion!

To make you enthusiastic, we already made an example collection for warehouse items. Just search for “warehouse” in your sidebar.

Floorplanner on the Chrome Web Store

February 26, 2012, 5:04 am

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We have a little update for those of you using Google's Chrome: we released Floorplanner on the Chrome App Store.

For those of you who don't know, Chrome is a web browser (like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari) made by Google. It's based on Webkit, it's very fast, and also has something called The Chrome Web Store.

The Chrome Web Store allows you to add all kinds of things to your Chrome browser: Games, extensions, tools and bookmarks to your favourite websites from your Chrome dashboard. The new Floorplanner app is one of these bookmark apps, which means that you can jump straight into Floorplanner from your Chrome dashboard.

The app is free and can be launched from the Chrome Web Store. And if you like Floorplanner, we'd be very grateful if you could write a review for us!