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Did you know that IRC, the oldest and most widespread of the Internet chat protocols
was invented in nineteen eighty eight? Hi, I'm Dan Afonso of Afonso Consulting and Enfold
IT. And this is how to add chat to your website. Chat on your website sort of depends on a
lot of technologies coming together and can be complicated or it can be as easy as you
want, depending on who's software and who's services you want to use. About the easiest
way to do it is option one. You're going to put a link up to someone else's chat room
or to someone else's chat. This can be as simple as an AIM chat room, just a link to
an AIM chat room. It could be a link to a Google talk chat room or it could be a link
to some other sort of on line chat room that supports this.. Option two, very similar,
is to use a third part chat application. Over here we have something, Free Chat Rooms from
freejavachat.com. You sign up, you put a link to one of their chat rooms, and then everyone
chats in that room. Same thing with ParaChat Basic, and there are countless other providers
on the web.Be advised you are at the mercy of these third party providers, but it's simple
and easy and gets you through the day. If you don't mind, this doesn't present the most
professional of image, it's probably good enough for social sites and stuff where people
just want to get together for some casual chatting. Now if you want more control, you
have to actually implement the chat server. This is really the problem. There's a bunch
of different approaches. One is to use a Sequel Server data base. I don't quite recommend
this. It requires a lot of complex scripting on the front end. Another one is to use a
Java IRC client and have an IRC server on the back end. That works well too. Whichever
way you choose, just choose carefully for what you have available. If your service provider
for your web host has already and IRC server, use it. There's no need to go reinvent the
wheel, just put one of the many free Java IRC clients on there and call it good. One
of those I can recommend, PJIRC, which is a Java client, it'll load up, has a lot of
themes support, very easy and very well supported. If you want to implement the Sequel Server
in the Ajax, PHP Open Chat does this and can be embedded in to your content management
system and whatnot. So, here's a few options for you. Please go to these websites, check
out their instructions and try which one works out for you. I'm Dan Afonso and that was how
to add a chat room to your website.