Enter the Chat Room
NOTE: If the sign-in box does not appear below the instructions, your browser is not Java-enabled.
| Getting Started | |
| Establish Your Identity |
When the sign-in box appears on this page below these instructions, you will see two fields, Your Name and Your Profile. Enter your name in the first field and an optional profile in the second field. Your profile can include links to Web pages in the form http://www.address.com and links to e-mail addresses in the form
mailto:name@address.com.
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| Enter the Chat Room | Click the Chat button next to the name field to enter the room. |
| Start Chatting | Type your chat messages in the space at the bottom of the chat room window and press the Enter key to send your message. |
| Launch a Private Chat | Once you're in a chat room, double click a name to launch a private chat session with any visitor in the room. |
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Menu Items in Chat Room Window: Room |
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| Close | Select this menu item to close the chat room window. |
| Options | |
| Font Name | Select this menu item to choose a font for the chat rooms. |
| Font Style | Select this menu item to choose Regular, Italic, Bold or Bold Italic font styles in the chat rooms. |
| Increase Font | Select this menu item to increase the size of the chat room fonts. |
| Decrease Font | Select this menu item to decrease the size of the chat room fonts. |
| Entrance Alerts | Select this menu item to display the name and profile of each person who enters a chat room. Select it again to turn off the feature. |
| Audio Alerts | Select this menu item to allow other people in the chat room to Ring you with an Audio Alert. Select it again to turn off the feature. Select both this menu item and the Entrance Alerts menu item to hear a sound each time a new person enters the chat room. |
| Show Count Changes | Select this menu item to have the room count displayed whenever someone enters or leaves the room. Select it again to turn off the feature. |
| Web Touring | Select this menu item to have Web addresses which appears in chat messages opened automatically in a Web browser window. Select it again to turn off the feature. |
| People | |
| Ring name | To signal someone with a sound, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Ring, then select this menu item. The sound will be played only if the person you select has Audio Alerts enabled. |
| Ignore name | To Ignore someone, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Ignore, then select this menu item. All chat messages and private chat requests from that person will be ignored. |
| Unignore name | To Unignore someone you're ignoring, click once on the name of the visitor you want to Unignore, then select this menu item. |
| Count | Select this menu item to display the count of people in the room. |
| Help | |
| Help Contents | Select this menu item to display a Web page with these same instructions. |
| About VolanoChat | Select this menu item to display product information about the VolanoChat applet. |