Digitalization makes it possible: The development of the Internet progresses day by day. Within a few years the world-wide web has changed from a hoard of free services to a commerce platform for products. According to the German high-tech association BITKOM, the German e-commerce business generated revenue of more than 40 billion EUR in 2006, reflecting annual growth of 25 percent.
The field of web design has changed, too. Today, web sites should look clean and be innovative. Otherwise they will not noticed. The problem: Recently design tools are not exclusively free of charge. Many tools are expensive and - on top of all - have a bad usability. Free web design kits cannot meet the claims of the users’ community.
Recently, the service provider "Your actor on the Internet" (YAOTI; www.yaoti.com) has launched a new innovative online tool. The tool can be downloaded for free and fascinates many users. The number of downloads has risen about 3.600 percent since the beginning of 2007. YAOTI offers a free integration of so called "virtual presenters" to web sites. These interactive and animated reflections of real persons help Internet users to navigate trough web sites and online shops. They explain web forms, products and features to the website's visitors.
"We want to encourage private and business users to create their web sites in a more interesting and interactive way" explains Volker Bossert, managing director at YAOTI. Therefore, the German experts have produced a lot oft standard sequences and animations, which can be downloaded for free at www.yaoti.com. Webmasters can integrate them into their web sites. The virtual web presenters are embodied by actors, which were copied - including their voices, their appearances and their motion - 1:1 to the Internet.
The field of web design has changed, too. Today, web sites should look clean and be innovative. Otherwise they will not noticed. The problem: Recently design tools are not exclusively free of charge. Many tools are expensive and - on top of all - have a bad usability. Free web design kits cannot meet the claims of the users’ community.
Recently, the service provider "Your actor on the Internet" (YAOTI; www.yaoti.com) has launched a new innovative online tool. The tool can be downloaded for free and fascinates many users. The number of downloads has risen about 3.600 percent since the beginning of 2007. YAOTI offers a free integration of so called "virtual presenters" to web sites. These interactive and animated reflections of real persons help Internet users to navigate trough web sites and online shops. They explain web forms, products and features to the website's visitors.
"We want to encourage private and business users to create their web sites in a more interesting and interactive way" explains Volker Bossert, managing director at YAOTI. Therefore, the German experts have produced a lot oft standard sequences and animations, which can be downloaded for free at www.yaoti.com. Webmasters can integrate them into their web sites. The virtual web presenters are embodied by actors, which were copied - including their voices, their appearances and their motion - 1:1 to the Internet.
