How to Start My Own Chat Site With Chat Rooms
A chat site allows multiple users to discuss topics of interest to them in real time. Although there are many ways to start your own chat site, with chat rooms for all kinds of topics, the most robust option is to link to an established Internet Relay Chat server with your own chat rooms hosted on it. These servers are free, robust and more than capable of handling your site's traffic.
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Instructions
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Download a java IRC application such as PJIRC or JWIRC. This will allow you to connect your website to an IRC server; which makes running several large chat rooms at once possible. Follow the application's installation instructions to add it to your website. Open Notepad or your favorite text editor to begin creating Web pages for your chat rooms.
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Create a new file and insert the HTML code for a basic website: <html><head><title>TITLE</title></head><body></body>, where "TITLE" is the name of your chat room. Between the <body></body> tags, insert the code for your java chat application--telling it which IRC server to connect to and the name of your chatroom. Good chat servers to use are QuakeNet and Efnet. See your chat application's documentation for the specific code you will need.
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Save the document as CHATROOM.html, where CHATROOM is the name of the chat room in question. Repeat this for any other chat rooms you want to run through your site. Create another new file and enter the basic website code again. Between the <body></body> tags, create a list of links to your chat rooms by adding <ol></ol>.
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Add one line of <li><a href="CHATROOM.html">CHAT ROOM NAME</a></li> between <ol> and </ol> per chat room file you created. Alter CHATROOM and CHAT ROOM NAME to match your files and room names. Save this file as index.html. Upload all the HMTL files you've created to your website. Your chat site is now ready to receive visitors.
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Tips & Warnings
The web pages you created with this code are functional but very basic. You can personalize them easily by changing page and font colors or even use a program like Dreamweaver, FrontPage or iWeb to design a custom website. The important thing is to retain the code that launches your Java IRC client, so visitors can use your chat rooms.
Using IRC is the best method of running a chat room because it is both fast and functional--having been designed for that purpose. However, it also means anyone with an IRC client can access your chat room, and this can lead to troublemakers you can't do much about. If you find you're having a lot of trouble with people in the chat room, consider using user banning or even passwording the channels.
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Sounds cool.....
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madhead
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Aj Hickman
Nov 10, 2010
join in with us nov 26 12am-until in the atomicdogg chat room and air out you mind every friday and saturday SEE U THERE
