VolanoChat™

Now you can add LIVE CHAT to your web site easier than you ever imagined. The VolanoChat system is a combination of server and client side Java programs. The client side Java applet (46 KB to 57 KB depending on browser) is downloaded by the browser and then executed on the user's local machine. The client applet then communicates with the software located on the server to create a live real-time chat environment.

Note that the downloading of the chat applet and any custom images you create for the applet are counted as data transfer. To implement the chat applet on your site follow these two simple steps:

Step 1:

Create an HTML file called chat.html in your root directory with the MyVolanoChat applet tag below in it and save it in the root directory of your site. Make sure you edit the applet tag to replace http://www.your-domain.com with your full domain name.

 
<applet codebase="http://www.your-domain.com/cgi-image/vcclient"
        archive="COM/volano/MyVolanoChat.jar"
        code="COM.volano.MyVolanoChat.class"
        width="500" height="100">
<param name="cabbase" value="COM/volano/MyVolanoChat.cab">
<param name="color"   value="#FFFFFF">
<param name="group"   value="Chat Room Name">
<param name="text"    value="english.txt">
</applet>
Parameter Definitions:
<param name="color" value="#FFFFFF">

This parameter changes the color of the space on your chat.html Web page that appears around the enter button. The color values are defined in the format #RRGGBB, where RR is the red hexadecimal value, GG is the green hexadecimal value, and BB is the blue hexadecimal value. The default color is white, #FFFFFF.

<param name="group" value="Chat Room Name">

This parameter changes the name of your chat room. It is displayed as the window title at the top of your chat room.

<param name="text" value="english.txt">

This parameter changes the user interface language of the chat room applet. The language value can be any of the following: english.txt, french.txt, german.txt, italian.txt, portuguese.txt, or spanish.txt. For example, to change the language to Spanish, replace english.txt with spanish.txt.

Step 2:

Add a link on your home page to point to chat.html. For example:

 
Click
<a href="http://www.your-domain.com/chat.html">here</a>
to enter our chat room!

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!

Volano and VolanoChat are a trademarks of Volano LLC.