Comments on: Amberjack Makes Site Tours Easy

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:47:05 +0000

Here’s a tour we’re using at GoSleepGo.com..we’ve always struggled to find a straight-forward way to explain the site to new visitors, and Amberjack solved that instantly.

http://www.gosleepgo.com/?tourId=GoSleepGoTour

By: What happens if you get Ajaxianed, Digged, Delicious’ed, Techcrunched - some statistics « Amberjack Blog

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:55:55 +0000

[...] Ajaxian was the first to review Amberjack on Wednesday, followed by listings on the homepages of Delicious on Thursday, Digg and Techcrunch on Friday. It seems as if Digg clearly won the race: [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Recap2.0: les autres billets de la semaine de TechCrunch.com (28 oct/4 nov. 06)

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:08:19 +0000

[...] Amberjack pour créer facilement la démo de votre service. Lire le billet ici. [...]

By: Checking Out Weebly’s Ajax Site Creator « windyness

Checking Out Weebly’s Ajax Site Creator « windyness — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:51:33 +0000

[...] Weebly is also making good use of video to show people what it’s all about. This is something we continue to suggest to new companies, and recently profiled Amberjack helps startups do this. We’ve included a demo video for Weebly below (if anyone knows what porn movie they stole the music from, please let me know). There are also a number of videos available to help users with certain aspects of the service. [...]

By: Jhatak Free Web Meeting Client

Jhatak Free Web Meeting Client — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:41:14 +0000

I tried the tour wizard in Firefox and for some reasons
i came across some javascript error, but not that
the wizard did not work..but it was just what i did
not expect.. all the same I created one

By: Bitelia » Amberjack: Crea un tour por tu web

Bitelia » Amberjack: Crea un tour por tu web — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:48:32 +0000

[...] (Vía TechCrunch) [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:43:58 +0000

This is a great tool, but when I tried it, it would not work properly from within IE. Firefox worked fine, but IE kept bombing out. Early stages I’m sure, but this is pretty good stuff. TechCrunch comes through yet again!

By: Arash Yalpani

Arash Yalpani — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:24:31 +0000

It seems that Marshall’s tour did not work for some of the people. If this is the case for you, it would be great if you could also try this tour:

http://amberjack.org/?tourId=AJTour

And take a minute afterwards to describe, what exactly went wrong, so I can find a fix for it:

http://nabble.com/Amberjack.or.....16545.html

@John Martin

Looks great! I am currently implementing a similar highlighting feature for Amberjack.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:59:55 +0000

Yes, this does sound like a great tool.

By: John Martin

John Martin — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:38:08 +0000

Hey… If you like this you’ll certainly like the tour on the front page of the Virgin Radio site, it’s sexy (”take a tour” button)

http://www.virginradio.co.uk/

By: Nemrut

Nemrut — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:20:42 +0000

I couldnt get it to work using Firefox but i like the idea. Does the tool allow control of frame rate? Another possible could be as a web based animation tool…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:19:08 +0000

This is a really good idea. This will really benefit webmasters and designers. There are still a few bugs and hopefully they will be sorted out soon

By: Ny

Ny — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:09:57 +0000

This is a good idea, and a potentially helpful service for both Designers and Webmasters.

However, once we had created and installed the script, we could not get it to work on our site. The help-forum did not finish loading, so we could not post our concern there. ;-?

By: Arash Yalpani

Arash Yalpani — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:49:45 +0000

Does this one work?
http://amberjack.org/?tourId=A.....nId=safari

By: ZF

ZF — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:11:59 +0000

Didn’t work in either Safari or Firefox 2.0 on OSX.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:11:43 +0000

Your sample tour does not work in Firefox 2.0 or IE7.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Amberjackならサイトツアーもラクラク作れる! — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:31:53 +0000

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By: Arash Yalpani

Arash Yalpani — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:17:21 +0000

Oh, I forgot to answer this portion of the post:

“It would be nice if the tour wizard made it easy to position where the narrative boxes appear (see my example) and the grey overlay is awkward when you scroll down on a page.”

The workaround is to use the “Fetch an additional CSS file after tour has loaded” box of the Wizard, specify a css-file on your own server and to put these line in it (and adjust the values):

#ajControl {top:30px;right:30px}

Regarding the grey overlay: I have added some options to the Wizard, so you can decide wether or not the overlay should be applied at all and if so, how it should behave.

JavaScript-Gurus are invited to discuss plugability with me here:
http://amberjack.wordpress.com.....r-updates/

By: Planblog » Blog Archive » Amberjack crunched

Planblog » Blog Archive » Amberjack crunched — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:52:25 +0000

[...] Amberjack launched the other day and has already been featured on Techcrunch: Amberjack Makes Site Tours Easy [...]

By: jack

jack — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:47:45 +0000

“and without asking me to listen to stories about how you started a VC backed photo sharing site because you had so many photos of your children and pets you just didn’t know what to do.”

Haha, classic!!!! Love it

By: Arash Yalpani

Arash Yalpani — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:45:56 +0000

Hi, thanks for covering, Marshall!

I have just LGPLed it and added some more options to the Tour Wizard.

Whoever is interested, I have posted about the changes on Amberjack’s blog:

http://amberjack.wordpress.com.....r-updates/

Cheers, Arash

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:27:15 +0000

This is very cool. I could see it be VERY popular. I think it’s great the endless possibilities the internet brings for innovation on things like this.

By: Amberjack lets you give tours of your website, hassle free at Ministry of Tech | Technology, Gadgets, Web 2.0

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:40:57 +0000

[...] Amberjack is an Open Source library, enabling webmasters to create interactive site tours, without any programming skills. Marshall Kirkpatrick states that, “if you’re not the screen cast type, Amberjack could be a fast, easy way for you to set up a tour of your site.” [...]

By: DaMAHN

DaMAHN — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:37:43 +0000

ummm… your demo has javascript syntax errors all over it