Automated Website Tour, Walk-through & Feature Introduction Plugin is a powerful plugin to create interactive tour with hints and tips, and embed them into your widgetized pages, thus, enhancing their usability and effectiveness. This plugin is helpful for non-tech savvy users, who rely on the gentle instructions to get familiar with a product, or want to clear a pending query on their mind. For the tech-savvy, it becomes useful in discovering new added features. Get this plugin to create amazing frontend tour which easily stir visitor’s interest, with a User Friendly Backend, highly customizable solution to build tour on your site.
When a user visits a website, they don’t have the most remote idea on how to start using the various functionalities a website is offering. If any major changes are done on a website or new features are added then user faces difficulty in navigating through the website.
One of the solution for this is to hand-hold a user personally through the website or particular section to help him/her learn. But, if you think on a much larger scale, personally hand-holding each user who signs up for the website, is not feasible at all. This is where guided walkthroughs or tour become a boon.
SocialEngineAddOns has developed ‘Automated Website Tour, Walk-through & Feature Introduction Plugin’ to allow website’s admin to create interactive tour or guided walkthroughs to handhold the users through all the optimal touchpoints, helping them get a better understanding of ‘doing’. It guides the user step-by-step with contextual help that prompt users to navigate a website intuitively and easily. It comes along with instant auto-focus highlighting, as the user moves into a new step of the tour. In contrast to the lengthy verbose documents, descriptive videos, and presentations, this technology has become popular as a simple, yet productive alternative.
Highlights of the Plugin
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3 Types of Tour Display
- Automatically start the tour once every time user visits that webpage.
- Automatically start the tour when user visits the webpage for first time. After that user can replay the tour manually via ‘Start Tour’ button.
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Highlight with Overlay
Enable overlay and highlight the section of webpage in tour. Rest of the webpage will be shown with black layer so that user can focus on the information you are displaying in your tour.
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Steps Title and Description
You can add title and description for the section of your website you are explaining to your users in the tour. This will help users get detailed information about the feature on that webpage.
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4 Positions (Top, Bottom, Left, Right)
Information added by you (title and description) for the tour step can be displayed at 4 positions: top, bottom, left and right. This is will help you in covering all sections of your webpage without worrying about their placement.
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2 Selectors Type ( id, class)
You can create new tour step for any web element, using its id or class, placed on a webpage. This is beneficial if some section on your website is not visible through a widget.
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Keywords Controls to Change Tour Step
Five buttons are provided to control the change of steps in a tour: Previous, Next, Pause, Resume and End tour. This will help users to control the flow of the guided tour. You can enable / disable any button as per your convenience.
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Redirect Tour to Another Webpage
You can add URL of the another webpage where you want to redirect the user after clicking on next button in the tour step. You can also leave it blank if you don’t want to redirect user on another webpage. This can be used to redirect them to a page showing a message that tour has ended.
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Tour Timeout Settings
Set the time duration for the guided tour. This will help in controlling the speed of your tour. Time duration can be set long for the page having complicated features and vice versa.
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Compatible With All Recent Popular Browsers
Tour created with this plugin works well on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari.
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Multilingual Support
Title, description, button labels in a tour will get translated to any language enabled on your website. You don’t need to create same tour in different languages, you just have to create one tour and it will be translated into other language as chosen by the user.
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Unlimited Tours
You can create any number of tour for your website. Each tour can have multiple steps explaining more than one feature within the same webpage. You can have multiple steps in a tour but single tour for a widgetized page.
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Start Tour Widget
‘Start Tour’ option gets placed on its own when you are playing website tour automatically. But, if you want to add ‘Start Tour’ button to a particular position on a page then you can do the same with the help of ‘Site Tour Button’ widget.
Benefits
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Coding Free
No need for you to have knowledge of programming. Tour creation with plugin is coding free. All you need is to choose the widgetized page and section present on it for which you want to create guided tour.
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Reduce Support Load
With the help of website tour you can help your users understand new and already existing features easily. Which in turn will reduce the user’s queries towards you.
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No Dependencies
This is a standalone plugin, it does not require any other plugin or extension. It is easy to install and use.
Administration
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Create New Tour
- Select page whose tour you want to create from all the available widgetized page.
- Set tour duration of steps being added in a tour.
- Set the how you want to play the tour: automatically or manually.
- Enable / disable ‘Start Tour’ button.
- Enable / disable the tour play options: previous, next, pause, resume, end tour buttons.
- Edit button labels of the tour play options.
- Enable / disable the tour.
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Manage Tour Steps
- Add new tour step for a widget or any web element present on the webpage.
- Enter the title for the tour step.
- Enter the description of explaining the feature of the widget / web element.
- Set the info (title and description) position: left, right, top or bottom.
- Enable / disable overlay for highlighting the tour step.
- Add URL of the page where you want to redirect the user after completion of the tour step. Enter URL of another page in the last step of your tour, otherwise tour will end after that step and other steps won’t get played.
