Embed YouTalk in your webpages
Imagine how much fun it would be to add a chatroom to your website! Your users can not only browse your site but also interact with others browsing the same site at the same time. With YouTalk, you can do this easily by creating YouTalk rooms for your website and embed the chatrooms in your webpages by pasting a bit of HTML code. Just follow these simple steps:
- Create a YouTalk room for your webpage. Give it a descriptive name and lots of relevant tags. We recommend mentioning the name of your website as one of the tags.
- Click on the "Add this chatroom to your website" link on the top right hand corner of the chatroom.
- Copy the HTML code snippet we provide and paste it into the webpage where you want the chatroom to appear.
Our chatroom is pretty large: 770 pixels wide and 590 pixels tall to be precise. You will probably want to make the chatroom the main feature of the webpage that it is on; otherwise users may find your page too large and unwieldy.
Important Tips:
- Do not use the same chatroom on more than one webpage (URL). We want to avoid the case where the user is logged into the same chatroom from multiple windows. As long as the user doesn't navigate away from any of the windows containing the chatroom, everything works just fine. However, the moment the user leaves the chatroom from any one of the windows (by navigating to a different page), the user is kicked out of the chatroom in all the windows. To continue chatting in one of the other windows, the user will need to refresh the page.
- Adding a chatroom to your page slows down the loading of your page considerably. Do not add the chatroom to webpages that attract a lot of user traffic that may not turn into chat traffic, e.g. the main URL of your website. Instead, create a special chat area in your website and provide a link to the user to navigate to the chat area. Recall that the moment the user loads a page containing a chatroom, the user is automatically logged into the chatroom. If these users are not here to chat, all they will do is clutter up the chat window with tons of "has entered the room" and "has left the room" messages.
- There is a limit on the number of users that can be present in the room at any given time. Once the limit is exceeded, the user will see a message asking them to retry later. This is another reason not to add the chatroom to pages except those that will actually produce chat traffic. On webpages that experience very high traffic, a large fraction of your users may end up seeing the error message instead of the chatroom.
- Note that the chatrooms you create for your site are available to anybody who finds them on the main YouTalk site.
Contact Info
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