A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting little tool to generate site tours for a site. I haven't really dived into the functionality yet but it is definitely something I expect to use in the future.
It seems such a brilliant idea that I thought someone else would have done it as well but a brief search on hotscripts and the like brings nothing up. I would be interested to see whether anyone has implemented this in another way but apparently not.
The library for the
tour wizard is called Amberjack. It's small at just 4k, LGPL licensed and setting it up couldn't be easier. There is a form on the website where you enter the urls you want to highlight in the tour and from that you get a snippet of html code which contains a placeholder for the html which forms the commentary on the tour. After that all you do is insert the html on the pages that form part of the tour and you're ready to go.
The only qualm I have with the default setup is that the html links back to the amberjack site for the javascript library. Personally I would much rather host that file locally.
Overall it looks like a really nice way of engaging with your audience and demonstrating what your site can do.
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
Tracked: Jun 04, 17:36