Alternative for site tours

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Monday, June 4. 2007

Posted by Jonathan Street in Website Management at 16:43

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Alternative for site tours

Back in March I posted about amberjack which allows you to create tours for your site. A couple of days ago Duncan Riley, over on techcrunch, highlighted another service. Demofuse also allows you to create site tours and has some nice features I didn't see with Amberjack.

The main advantage of demofuse is it allows you a lot more interaction with the page, highlighting sections, giving tips etc. Where I think it is weak is in moving around the site. This functionality just doesn't seem as smooth as with amberjack.

Beyond the functionality the main difference is that amberjack is a downloadable javascript library licensed under the LGPL and demofuse is a hosted service. There is no mention of a fee for using it but this is something to be aware about.

My personal preference would still be amberjack - I would prefer the control which a downloadable library allows and for my tastes the added functionality which demofuse offers would be better integrated more fully into the design of a site rather than being limited to a site tour. It's a tough call though and I can certainly see situations where demofuse would be the better option.

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It seems that Demofuse has been let go. There is not successful way to contact the developers. I'm still looking for a good alternative. Amberjack is ok, but very 90's looking, and doesn't highlight like I'm looking for. Let me know if you find anything else. Thanks!
#1 George (Homepage) on 2008-09-05 16:50 (Reply)
Hi George

That's a shame. I've not really been looking for anything else recently so have nothing to suggest.

Amberjack is skin-able so perhaps you can modify it for your needs. The best I can suggest unfortunately.
#1.1 Jonathan Street (Homepage) on 2008-09-11 05:09 (Reply)

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