One of the hardest things to do on a website is reaching out to your visitors with the warmth and friendliness that exists in person. Thanks to Sitepal from Oddcast, it is relatively easy and inexpensive to add a lifelike animated character to your website. It isnt as powerful as a real salesman, but its pretty darn close and a step above graphics and simple flash animations.
Sitepal allows all kinds of businesses to create animated, talking avatars for websites. These avatars can be used for a variety of applications such as customer service agents, virtual salesman, or even a reporter for news sites. Their eyes follow the mouse cursor. They can welcome visitors, inform about products displayed on the page, even answer pre-defined questions.
Personalizing your character is flexible and easy. The system lets you choose hairstyles, shades, necklaces, shirts, mouths, and face models. You can reposition the mouth, adjust the size of the shoulders, and even choose the amount of blush used for make up. It also gives you a decent list of backgrounds to use as well as an option to upload your own. For the audio, you can record a message using a microphone or...