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Welcome to EyeballNZ.com

 

This is New Zealand. Plan your Journey. Find Accommodation, Activities, Dining and Tours and Transport. Find information on New Zealand and individual towns. Add your own photos and stories to the community pages on the towns too.

 

Explore tab

The Explore Map is generally the best place to start your navigation around the site, it's Google map based so the controls should be familiar to most. As soon as you open the Explore page you will be presented with a map of NZ with a series of images attached to it. You can 'grab' and move the map to wherever you wish with your mouse and when you zoom in, more image icons will appear.

When clicking on any of these images, a speech bubble appears with a slideshow for the area inside (illustrated below). There are 2 types of speech bubble - ones with 'more information' on them - clicking on these will take you to detailed information of the place with tabs for facts, accommodation, activities etc. The speech bubbles without 'more information' are 'pictures of interest' for instance a lighthouse or aerial view of a piece of coastline without a town attached to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When hovering over the slideshow a toolbar will appear giving you a range of options:

 

1. Skip to the first or last image in the series

2. Move to the next image before or after the current image

3. The highlighted number shows which image in the series is currently on show

4. Pause the slide show

5. Make the image go FULL SCREEN

6. Go to the detailed pages for this location

7. Add this location to your My Discoveries area

Nb. there are both 'Locations' and 'Points of Interest' plotted on the map, only the Locations will have the 'more information' option within the bubble.

 

There is also a a tool for working out distances and providing directions from A to B. Simply use the drop down tool bars to enter your start and end points and you will be provided with detailed instructions of the route as well as distances. These are of course fully printable.

 

Directory tab

The Directory tab lists all of the towns that we have featured on the site. If a town is too small to be featured, it will be included in the nearest larger town.

The Location pages by default opens on the gallery slideshow, there are also the following tabs to choose from:

• community
• accommodation
• activities
• bars & restaurants
• map
• facts

The accommodation, activities and bars & Restaurants tabs all have a similar format and functionality. Upon entry you will be presented with a full list of the appropriate services, you can then use the filters at the top of the page to find providers relevant to your needs.

 

Other tabs

• community

The community area allows you to contribute to the site by adding images of your own from around New Zealand and to create blog entries to help other travellers find those little known treasures.

 

• facts

The facts pages hold a stack of information about the location you have chosen, well worth a read for any place you are considering visiting.

 

• map

The map tab shows you the google map of the town you are looking at with icons that show accommodation, activities and dining locations of our advertisers on site.

 

Two buttons to keep an eye out for are and . The first allows you to choose a new location to view as you would expect. The second saves the current location or service to your My Discoveries itinerary planning page.

 

My Discoveries

The My Discoveries area contains all locations, points of interest, bars, restaurants, accommodation and/or activities that you have chosen to 'add' while browsing through the site. It allows you to enter the dates that you'll be there and shuffle them up and down the list to create an itinerary for yourself.

You will be able to add notes under each location, like your flight details, rental car information or the telephone number of the mates place you're staying at that evening. The itinerary is of course also printable.

Your computer will cache your 'My Discoveries', but if you wish to view your discoveries on a different computer you will need to be a registered user on site in order to save your 'My Discoveries' choices.

Happy Travels!

ps if you need any help in navigating our site or have suggestions for improvements, please don't hesitate to contact us on info@eyeballnz.com