Simple tooltip powered by jQuery
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A great user interface acts as a teacher. It should bring new users up to an intermediate level of experience quickly. Anyone can appreciate a video game that lets them dive in and play without ever needing to pick up the manual. Many games offer help text that appears at key moments to teach the player how the game works.
The web has a lot to learn from video game interfaces. Adding tooltips is an effective way to quickly bring users up to speed so that they never feel the need to find the help manual.
Here is an example of one.
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