How to Make a Chat Website
Perhaps you're making an entire website centered around real-time chatting, or maybe you just want to add a chat room to your pre-existing site. Whether you fit one of those descriptions or you're somewhere in between, adding chat capabilities to your website is a great way to build your website's community and strengthen communications between you and your visitors.
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Shop for a website hosting plan that fits your needs. Popular web hosts include BlueHost, Just Host, and GoDaddy.
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Register a domain name (such as "ehow.com") where your site can be located. Often, you will be prompted to do this when buying a hosting plan.
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Choose chat software that will enable real-time chatting on your website. Often, web hosts will provide chat room scripts that you can enable right from your hosting control panel, but it depends on the host and the plan you chose. Common chat software includes AddonChat, which has a free version, and FlashChat, an inexpensive chat program.
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Upload the chat software to your website's server if you didn't already activate a built-in script through your control panel. Install the software on your server according to its instructions.
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Alert your website's visitors to the new chat capabilities on your site via a link in the navigation menu or an article.
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