At last, we are pleased to announce a 2-day sale on WebRotate 360 Product Viewer PRO v3.5 this Thursday and Friday only (18-19th of December). We will offer a 30% discount ($90 off) on our most advanced 360 product viewer and dedicated publishing software to date. We're doing this to promote our major product release (2 years in the making!) and it's the first and the last sale in 2014.

You can find more details about various new features that were introduced in WebRotate 360 Product Viewer v3.5 via our release summary here. In short though, we can finally say that v3.5 now represents a one-stop solution for all 360 product viewing needs.

What's more? There're no hidden fees or monthly commitment - it's a standlone "off-the-shelf" product and you decide how you or your clients will be using it. It's backed by our outstanding PRO support and 1 year of free upgrades. And we have a lot of plans for v4.0 in 2015!

Still not convinced? Just download and try our free version and check out our free CMS and eCommerce plugins here and let us know what you think.

So if you are shopping for a state-of-the-art eCommerce add-on this holiday season or just looking to add 360 product views to the list of your services in 2015, just mark the date and stay tuned! The coupon code will be published on Wednesday night PST on our Facebook, Twitter, G+, and here on our blog.

The coupon code is SAVE2014 

Just enter this code at checkout HERE

Although the release build of WebRotate 360 Product Viewer v3.5 has been available since mid-September 2014, we still had to spend some extra time bringing our most popular eCommerce and CMS plugins up to speed before we could finally announce this major release here on this blog and in our newsletters.

Today, WebRotate 360 Product Viewer plugins for Magento, OpenCart, WordPress have been revamped to support the latest and greatest. As we were implementing these updates, we also introduced our new Joomla plugin which we hope a lot of folks will find useful.

So now it's official, v3.5 is out! If you are still using an older version of the product, we recommend upgrading soon.v3.5 incorporates these major changes and enhancements:

• Revamped SpotEditor with 360 product image editing, publishing templates, FTP, watermarks, and more
• New skins and graphics, read more
• Animated GIF publishing, read more
• Hotspot actions, read more
• API (application programing interface) for advanced customizations, read more
• Full support for responsive websites
• Integration via jQuery plugin
• Discontinued Adobe Flash support
• And a lot more! See full product history

Commercial version of this release is available to all our past customers free of charge. 

If you have purchased either WebRotate 360 PRO or Enterprise before and haven't received updated download links and / or spoteditor.code for activating your desktop software (or the download links that we sent you before stopped working), request it now via quick email.

• Download free version
• Quick demo
• Updated User Guide

Here’s another example of creative ingenuity by folks at TinkerForge, Germany who applied their own DIY building “bricks” that they sell online and a cool idea, and turned it into a fully functional robotic 360 product photography turntable.

As you can see on their blog, the whole constructions is made of just a handful of DIY parts, including a stepper motor, of course, a rotary ball bearing (250kg rated!), two cutting boards and a couple of cool “bricks” manufactured by TinkerForge: Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet and Stepper Brick. All in all, this is a substantial saving compared to commercially produced professional tables.

Except for the challenge with the ball bearing attachment that ended up needing some clearance to work in conjunction with the hub and the motor, we call it a success! Hopefully some of our readers will get inspired by this design and will use TinkerForge’s cool “bricks” to create similar 360 product photography platforms.

You may also be interested in these DIY solutions that we have been collecting on this blog:

• DIY 360 Product Photography Turntable with Magnetic Trigger
• Another DIY 360 Photography Turntable
• Computorized DIY Turntable For 360 Product Photography
• Build your own DIY 360 Photography Turntable for under $40 

Joomla came a long way since the Mambo days and we are proud to say that we have followed its evolution each step of the way. Without a doubt it became one of the most popular CMS platforms and the 3.x release catapulted Joomla even further.

This is why we didn't think twice and ported our battle-hardened feature-rich shortcode engine to Joomla to support the most flexibility our integration modules had to offer. So without further adieu, please welcome WebRotate 360 Product Viewer for Joomla!

LIVE DEMO

Download from Joomla! Extensions Directory

To start with the plugin, please visit our Joomla extension page on Joomla! Extensions Directory and click any of the Download buttons to download the plugin to your computer first. Then login to your Joomla Admin panel, select Extensions Manager in the top menu, click the Browse button on the Install tab and pick your downloaded zip to start the plugin installation.

The last step is to enable the plugin in Plugin Manager and specify any defaults for your 360 product views on the plugin settings page that should look like this:

Just hover with your mouse over the text lables next to each field on the settings page as shown above to see what each of them stands for.

The rest of the integration is done via simple shortcodes that are summarized in detail on our Joomla demo page. In short, you can use two of the available shortcodes to either embed your 360 product spins directly inside any of your Joomla content or launch your webrotate 360 spins inside the lightbox popup which also supports gallery mode.

All available shortcodes are also supported inside K2 content extensions and even VirtueMart product desriptions! More shortcode types will be available soon.

Please also note that there is one sample 360 product view located under the webrotate360 plugin folder under 360_assets. To try this sample in your test shortcodes, use the following config path as per the shortcode examples on the demo page:

/plugins/content/webrotate360/360_assets/sampleshoe/config.xml