Why have a chat room?
It may be that your site won’t benefit from a chat room. There are many chat rooms out there that have much tumbleweed blowing across them – the only thing that chat room does it show visitors that nobody uses the site. The point of having a chat room is to get people coming back to the site and discussing the site with other visitors. Therefore you need two things – plenty of visitors so that there is several people in there to chat and also a purpose. If your site is about nothing in particular people probably won’t use it. After all they could use IRC, MSN, Yahoo or one of the numerous other chat services out there. HTML Solutions There are probably fairly simple. All you need is a database and a server side scripting language. Your visitors don’t need anything such as Java or a plugin, they can chat just using a browser that supports frames and meta refresh. This is a similar system to the one operated by www.cgispider.com. Good points: Can be easily written yourself, visitor can a
