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Add a Welcome Screen to Your Virtual Tour

A TeliportMe welcome screen is the first thing visitors see: a photo or video with your tour’s title and a short description. They click anywhere to step inside. It sets the scene, and it’s also what lets background music start playing.

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Blocks
  1. Add a Welcome Screen to Your Virtual Tour
  2. Add Music and Sound to Your Virtual Tour
  3. Add an Interactive Floor Plan to Your Virtual Tour
  4. How to Add a 3D Dollhouse to Your Virtual Tour
  5. Show Your Virtual Tour on a Map with Map View
  6. Add a Navigation Menu to Your Virtual Tour
  7. Add Call-to-Action Buttons to a Virtual Tour
  8. Add a Search Box to Your Virtual Tour
  9. Customise the Control Bar in Your Virtual Tour
  10. Show or Hide the Thumbnail Bar in a Virtual Tour
  11. Before and After 360 Photos: Split View and Twin View
  12. Magic Embed: Put a Video or Picture Inside a 360 Photo
  13. Virtual Host: Put a Green-Screen Presenter in a 360 Photo
  14. Add a Video Presenter to Your Whole Tour
  15. Reuse Blocks Across Virtual Tours with Global Blocks

Add the welcome screen

  1. Open your tour in the editor and choose + Add at the top left.
  2. Choose the Welcome Screen card, then Add.
The Welcome Screen card in the block picker, outlined

The welcome screen is switched on straight away, using your tour’s thumbnail as the background, and its settings open in a new Welcome tab at the top of the editor.

Choose the background

Under Background Media, choose Image or Video:

  • Image: choose Change Image and pick one of the tour’s panoramas under Tour Images, or a picture under Your Images.
  • Video: choose Change Video and pick or upload an MP4.

Glass Overlay Effect blurs the background, so the text stays readable on a busy photo or video.

Write the text

  • Main TitleUp to 60 characters. This is your tour’s title, so changing it here renames the tour everywhere.
  • Description TextA line or two about the place, such as the address and what makes it special. This is the tour’s description.

Press Enter, or choose the tick, to save each one. Clicking away without doing that discards the change.

The sliders button next to each field styles the text: font, text and background colour, size, alignment, bold, italic, underline and Max Width. Styling saves as you change it.

Add a fly-in

Under Entrance Animation, turn on Fly-in Animation. When visitors enter, an animation flies them into the first panorama. Preview plays it for you.

Turn it off or remove it

  • Hide it for now: turn off Enable Welcome Screen. Visitors go straight to the tour, and your settings stay.
  • Remove it: choose the bin next to the switch. It’s removed straight away, without asking.

Tips

  • Using background music? Browsers only play sound after a click. The click that opens the welcome screen does that, so music starts on cue. See Add sound.
  • On MLS links, the title and description are hidden; the background stays.

Common questions

Can I use a video as the welcome screen background?

Yes. Under Background Media, choose Video, then Change Video to pick or upload an MP4.

Does changing the welcome screen title rename my tour?

Yes. The welcome screen’s Main Title is your tour’s title, so changing it renames the tour everywhere.

Yes, without the text. On MLS links, the welcome screen’s title and description are hidden and the background stays.

How do I hide the welcome screen without deleting it?

Turn off Enable Welcome Screen. Visitors go straight to the tour, and your welcome screen settings stay for later.

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