Create an absolute link somewhere on your site that links to
your newly created chat.html page like this:
| <a href="http://www.your-domain.com/chat.html">Enter
our chat room</a> |
Note: You must reference your
full domain name for your account, including the www.,
or the chat will not work. You also cannot reference the chat
using a machine name or a domain pointer. Users are only allowed
one chat room per account. Also, the chat.html
page with the above applet code in it must be located in the root
directory of your account and must be named chat.html.
You're done!
That's all it takes to add LIVE CHAT to your site!
Customizing Volano Chat
Note: Volano Chat is a third party product and,
as such, we do not provide support for the product. For more
information about Volano Chat and how to customize it, please
visit the Volano
web site. The following instructions
should be enough to get you started, but they are not intended to
act as comprehensive documentation. Also, don't worry too much
about making mistakes; you can always start over.
To customize the Volano Chat applet, download one of the below
language configuration files. This is the file that has the
default language settings that will be used in the chat applet.
You can then modify this file, upload it to your site, and
reference it in your chat applet code.
The default language settings come in several different
languages. Download the one that is appropriate
for your use:
(Note: hold the SHIFT key when clicking
on one of the below links to save it locally instead of
viewing it in the browser.)
Note that many of the settings in these files
will not apply to your chat applet because we only allow one chat
room per account and we do not offer many of the enhanced
features such as kick, ban, and usage stats. If you are not sure
about what you are doing, it may be best not to modify any of the
existing lines. Many of the customization options you may wish to
make involve adding additional lines of code to these files,
which we explain how to do below.
Customizing Volano Chat involves modifying or adding to your
personal language configuration file. After making your desired
changes, upload the file to your domain in ASCII
mode. Then you will need to configure the applet code in your chat.html
page to use your customized configuration file. To do this, you
will need to modify the "text" parameter in the
<applet> html tag.
<applet
codebase="http://www.your-domain.com/cgi-image/vcclient"
archive="COM/volano/MyVolanoChat.zip"
code="COM.volano.MyVolanoChat.class" width=500
height=65>
<param name="cabbase"
value="COM/volano/MyVolanoChat.cab">
<param name="color"
value="#FFFFFF">
<param name="group" value="Chat Room
Name">
<param name="text" value="http://www.your_domain.com/english.txt">
</applet> |
Changing the Banner Ads
By default, the banner advertisement settings are not in the
language files. In order to modify the banners you will need to add
the following code to your custom language configuration
file:
# Advertisement settings.
ad.on=true
ad.width=460
ad.height=55
ad.target=_blank# Advertisement
banners.
ad.1=20 /my_ads/ad1.gif http://www.volano.com/
ad.2=20 /my_ads/ad2.jpg http://www.yahoo.com/
ad.3=20 /other_ads/cnn_ad.gif http://www.cnn.com/
ad.4=20 /other_ads/cnn_ad2.gif http://www.cnn.com/
|
You can turn advertising on or off by setting ad.on
to true or false. The width and height
are the size of the banner ad images in pixels. The target can be
any window name allowed by the HTML target attribute, including
the magic values of _blank, _self,
_parent, and _top.
Ads can be either images (as GIF or JPEG files) or Java
applets. Don't use animated GIFs because they don't seem to work
well, if at all. Also, keep your image file sizes small (less
than 20k each) to help prevent any problems.
Ads for images must have three items, separated by a
single space:
- the time (in seconds) to display the ad,
- the banner image location
( begin URL with forward slash: /ad_dir/image.gif
)
- the URL to display when the user clicks
on the ad
The numeric suffix on each property (ad.1, ad.2, ...,
ad.n) must be sequential
and start with the number 1. This suffix gives the sequence of
the advertisement banners.
You must define at least 4 banner ads in
order to override each of the 4 default Volano banner ads. For
instance, if you only define ad.1 and ad.2, then users will see
the default Volano banner ads ad.3 and ad.4 after your ads. If
you want to have only 1 banner ad, just list that one banner four
times.
Changing the Chat Room Colors
By default, the chat room is gray with black text. You can
change these colors by adding the following code
to your language configuration file:
# Applet window colors.
color.on=true
color.background.red=192
color.background.green=192
color.background.blue=192
color.foreground.red=0
color.foreground.green=0
color.foreground.blue=0 |
The color.background attributes define the
background color of the chat room. The color.foreground
attributes define the text color of the chat room.
The colors are standard RGB colors whose
values range from 0 to 255. For example:
white: (red=255, green=255, blue=255)
black: (red=0, green=0, blue=0)
yellow: (red=255, green=255, blue=0)
Changing the 'Enter Chat Room' buttons
By default, your chat applet will display a 'Volano' button
which users click to enter the chat room. This too can be
customized by adding the following code to your
language configuration file:
# Applet images.
image.button.width=88
image.button.height=31
image.button1=/images/your_button.gif
image.button2=/images/your_button2.gif |
image.button1 is the 'Volano' button that you
push to enter the chat room.
image.button2 is the 'Chat' button that
appears when you move your mouse over the 'Volano'
(image.button1) button.
Important Note: If you
do not notice any changes you made to your chat applet, clear
your browser's cache. Just hitting 'reload' or
'refresh' most often will not be enough. You may even need to
quit and restart your browser to adequately clear your cache.
For more information about configuration options, visit the Volano web site.