I'm building a site that uses the jQuery iScroll plugin in the main navigation system. (<http://lab.cubiq.org/iscroll/examples/simple/>). Please note that the plugin is not exactly drag-n-drop.

Right now, I'm just using a different cursor to indicate the page is draggable.

A grab/drag hand similar to this:  

![Two images - both green, one with an open hand cursor, one with a closed/grabbing hand cursor](https://today.java.net/images/2009/07/figure1.jpg)

How else should I warn the user about the draggable interface?  

A DRAG ME message (as cursor) that appears for some seconds when the page loads?  

Does anyone have any ideas/references?

**EDIT**: I could see in the answers some tips and references to other questions where some of the divs inside the page are draggable. But in my case the **whole page** navigation is draggable. How should I warn in that case?

Here are some examples:

1. [A small animation at the beginning. (I don't like this kind of option much)](http://www.blacknegative.com/)
2. [A circle appears when pressing the mouse](http://niketo.com/)
3. [Four-arrow cursor + Scroll Sign](http://www.narrowdesign.com/)
4. [The hand/grab cursor I was proposing](http://www.warbyparker.com/annual-report-2012)
5. [Hand/grab cursor](http://rvlt.com/)
6. [Hand/grab cursor](http://fff.cmiscm.com/#!/main)
7. [Not exactly draggable but I found interesting the way of warning the unusual navigation](http://www.werkstatt.fr/#/home)
8. [Same as the last one here](http://www.saltfilms.com.sg/).

So I think I can come up with various "small" solutions which are:

-Visual instructions like in example#3 and example#8  

-Small animation at the beginning as in example#1  

-Make a first complete plain screen that will force the user either to drag that page to enter or leave the page like in example#1  

-Small tips like in example#2 or making the page auto-drag a little if the user hasn't drag it (proposed in one of the solutions below)  

-Making kind of a zoom-out when the user tries to drag like in example#7  

-Lack of any scrollbar or button to go next like in example#2. Two opinions with this, either the user realises he must drag or leaves the page. If I put buttons the user will use the buttons to go left/right and probably won't realise the page was draggable like in example#4

This all makes me think of when MAPS websites were not draggable. When they began to be draggable, how did they warn the user?

**EDIT 2**: I found this article that might be interesting for the subject: <http://blog.maxrudberg.com/post/38958984259/if-you-see-a-ui-walkthrough-they-blew-it>