I never knew exactly how easy it would be for Zootool newbies to understand all that stuff about the Lasso, how to save new content in Zootool and how to use the Zoo interface. We offered some kind of instruction on how to procede after the sign-up, but it was never done well. Habu and I were talking about this for quite some time and we both felt that we are loosing users there, because they just don’t get it. It took longer than I expected to offer a solution I really feel comfortable with, because I also never thought that it would be that hard to write and design a good documentation!!

From today on new users will be led to the “first steps” page after the sign-up. We tried to break it down into three easy steps, helping you to start right away. In the same time we wanted to design something that really convinces people to go on. One of the bad side effects of the web 2 point - i can’t hear it anymore - 0 bubble is that people don’t waste their time anymore exploring new sites longer than necessary, because it’s just no fun to click through the 72nd community/aggregator/socialwtf. I don’t know if we did a good job on that but at least the page looks good

Even old, wise and experienced Zootool users should have a look at: http://zootool.com/first_steps