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Touration lets you easily create guided tours for a Web page
Touration is a simple to use web app for creating visual tours of your Web pages. If you go to their page and click Show me how it works you'll get a demo tour that would explain the concept in about 10 seconds, but the gist of it is that you get callouts that walk you through page elements, one by one.
They also offer a demo of the editor, which is really simple to use -- which is a large part of its appeal. Simply click a page element and create a rich-text callout for it; that's all there is to it. You can also add floating "dialog boxes" (i.e, explanations not directly related to any one page element), or "groups". Groups are basically callouts which highlight arbitrary sections of the page and not just one image or piece of text.
Note that this is a page tour, rather than a site tour. I think it can come in handy for sites with complex visual layouts or for web apps which pack loads of functionality onto a single page.
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Subscribe to commentsMaartenJul 26th 2010 10:18AM
Is it too much of a cliché to say that if you have to explain to your users how your website works, then you're not doing your job very well?
skalpaJul 26th 2010 10:59AM
Again ?!
Seriously, after the "one post a day about a collaborative editor" serie is it going to be the "online apps to annotate websites" now ?
Why not group all those articles about apps that mainly do the same thing together, instead of duplicating the same pointless article that sounds like a dumb useless commercial endless times...
EgorJul 26th 2010 11:29AM
Erez, thank you for your post of our service.
Here is invitation code for all people who is interesting to try: downloadsquad
Steve GJul 26th 2010 1:13PM
I have to agree with Maarten. I can imagine some (very few) specialist sites needing something like this but any 'normal' site that needs it is just badly designed.
EgorJul 27th 2010 3:59AM
Steve: Touration is mostly created for web application services. We can talk about bad/good usability and design, but each of those web applications always have help section. Using touration, they can provide inplace help and visitors don't need to leave current page at all.