In the first of a new series on Net4TV Voice, we've gathered all our resources on the fine art of Chatting together in one place. We've got articles for the whole range of WebTV user, from the first steps into a chat room to rolling your own chat and rooms. And if that's not enough, we're premiering a set of Chat Forums for you to discuss making your own chats and related issues!
There's no faster way to meet people and make friends on the Net than through chat. Outrage69 shows you how to have fun in the fast-moving world of IRC chat.
Before WebTV had IRC, we chatted using HTML chats. It's different, and it let's you display your favorite pictures and HTML right in the chat page. Outrage69 shows you how.
Tired of TalkCity? Ready for a change? Moose119 tells how and why he moved to a friendly new server that puts WebTV'ers in control of their own chat experience -- and shows you how to do it too!
ZUHNet Offers Special Features for WebTV
Diane Dumas interviews EvilZah, ZUHNet administrator, and finds out why ZUH is becoming such as favorite with WebTV users. Includes RealAudio interview!
Do you chat? Would you like to have your own chat interface (with no TalkCity ads, heh heh) that you can customize any way you like? Diane Dumas has created a basic chat that you can transload or copy and paste into the editor on your own home page, and we show you the details of how it works.
In our continuing series on building your own WebTV IRC interface, Diane Dumas shows how to make an upgrade-friendly chat that will allow your visitors to change servers, ports and rooms.
If you like to chat, you'll have even more fun with your own personalized chat interface. In this episode, Diane Dumas shows you how to add your own custom pop-up messages to your chat, and gives you complete code ready to cut and paste on your own home page!
If you like to chat, you'll have even more fun with your own personalized chat interface. In this episode, Diane Dumas shows you how to add whisper and message boxes to your chat, and gives you complete code ready to cut and paste on your own home page!
Does your WebTV Plus lose its audio connection in chat? Diane Dumas has found the bug in the latest upgrade, and shows you how to fix the problem in your chat custom interface.
TogetherDiane pulls it all together in our 6th lesson in building your own chat. This one has it all -- messages, popups, room-changing and a fix to the audio bug!
Finally, the ultimate WebTV chat interface: frames, no-reload room-changing, and a multi-server room changer. From here, you've got the code for the best chat on WebTV!
Diane Dumas returns with her continuing series on how to make your own custom IRC chat for WebTV. Basic Chat 8 has all of the goodies of Chat7, but without the frames that cause WebTV some current problems.
Tired of those dumb old /msg whisper boxes in your IRC chat? You know, the ones that have 2 boxes and takes up a lot of the typing
space! In her continuing series for Net4TV Voice, Diane Dumas
shows you how to add smart whisper/action/popup boxes!
It's time for a clock on your homepage or chat, and Diane Dumas shows you how, with cut and paste code for an easy clock add-in!
4. Chat IRC FAQ by Diane Dumas
In this Special issue of Net4TV Voice I'd like to share some of the most Frequently Asked Questions I receive concerning the Chat IRC Articles I've written over the past months.
Q: How do I make my own IRC Chat for my WebTV?
A: First you need a Website (Homepage). Tripod, Geocities, and Angelfire are the most popular, but there are others like Xoom and Talk City. After you become a member, the easiest way is to transload it using Star Blvd Transloader. You can also Cut and Paste the code and use your website's editor to create a page. If you are just starting out with HTML and JavaScript, use Basic Chat 1. It is the easiest, and smallest chat. The chat is then placed on page and you give it a file name. This creates a page address (URL) you use to access the chat. When you type in the page address of the chat it will connect to the chat room. You can change the connect information to make the chat connect to different chat rooms or to your own chat room by modifying the chat code variables.
Q: I Cut and Pasted the Code but my Chat doesn't work?
A: The problem with using Cut and Paste and your Homepage's editor, is that the WebTV will add hidden spaces in your code and break the chat code line. When the code line is broken, it causes an error and the chat no longer works. Holding down the Shift and Down-Arrow key will highlight the code. Look for double spaces at the end of each line of code. If you see one, remove it.
Q: My Chat works, but won't change Chat Rooms?
A: This is caused if the file name you used to save the chat and the variable chatURL="chat.html" do NOT match. Change the "chat.html" to the same name you used as a file name (URL) to save the page on your Website (Homepage).
5. The Chat Doctor Forums
Now you can ask questions, get advice, and just hang out with the Custom Chat Experts in our Chat Doctor Forums. Ask away.
And, of course, don't forget to join the Net4TV Voice team and friends every Sunday from 3 - 6 Pacific Time for our regular audio and video-enhanced chat. Play Trivia, hear WebTV gossip, and hang out with the coolest folks on the Internet, WebTV users like yourself.
Visit Chat4TV for links to custom interfaces, or point your favorite interface or Chat program to:
Server - promo.iacta.com
Port - 6667
Room - #net4tv
See you there!
