Live chat for my site

[kigoobe]

Hey friends ...

Wondering how can I put a live chat for my site !!! I've just put a forum yesterday at www.kigoobe.com/meetup/index.php or simply kigoobe.com/meetup and wanted to put a live chat there. Any idea - welcome.

Thanks - cheers.

[evolveiris]

Hey Kigoobe,

That's a wicked site you got over there. Will be dropping there often.

Since your discussion board is phpBB, you can use Prillian - the IM hack for phpBB.
If you want a full feature Java chat applet for your site, I'd recommend DigiChat.

Let me know if this helps,

cheers,
Shyam

[kigoobe]

Hello Shyam

You have really a nice site man ... I am just visiting your site and it is really nice with so many options for users ...

I am also visiting the chat url that u have given ... thanks for the link. They haven't given any demo of their chat software ... no way to visualize the after effects ...

Personally, the site I have liked with a chat machine is www.silchar.com ... the chat box is put in an iframe with the header, thus irrespective of in which page you are, you can always see a bit of who is chating at the top of the page ... the chat is not a complex one, very simple, but quite effective in terms of attracting attention.

Thanks again for the help.
Wishing you a nice time.
Regards
Sourav.

[kigoobe]

Hello

I've installed that chat software as given by Shyam ... thanks for the tips ... only problem that I'm facing that it is always showing

There are 0 user(s) on chat now

in the index page even when there are people inside the chat room.

Besides, I had another question, wondering if someone could help ... I want to put a left colum to the forum http://kigoobe.com/meetup for navigational reasons. Question is, is there any particular way to follow for that so that I can make an external file like header and footer and then include that to all the pages, or should I need to make it seperately in all the pages as we do for normal html designing.

Thanks for any help.
Regards
Sourav.