Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users

Does anyone know of a good online catalog where libraries like this are curated? Or are folks just bookmarking these as they find them?

This is really great. We live in interesting times. It really gets easier to make cool stuff every day with all those tools.

Does any know what other sites apart from Optimizely that use Guiders.js or have a similar interactive tour? I have been developing something very similar for my app and am very interested in seeing examples of how to best structure the walk-through.

OK, enough is enough. Now I have no choice but to scrap prototype in favour of jQuery.

I built a similar library on top of YUI called Feature Cue while I was at Yahoo! Sadly it was never open sourced, got rewritten, over-engineered and (as far as I know) faded into obscurity.<p>I'm glad the Optimizely guys have released their version, because based on our user testing novice users really respond well to this kind of interactive product tour.

This sounds like a great idea, but I (as a webapp user) would probably say "No thanks" to the guide to take a first look at a website before trying to go through a bunch of dialog boxes.<p>I wonder what % of users will go through a guide like this.

Pretty cool, Would be good to make the jQuery dependency more prominent. Was looking to create my own form of this but will use this instead. Does it require jQuery UI library?

If anyone is interested, we'd love to get some help with the Guiders.js -- please email john@min.us - would love to try this out!

I just started using blockui for an attempt as a crude sort of Guider. Looking into this now, thanks.

I love the idea of using this for new features. Consider me sold.

Looks awesome, what version of jQuery is required?