Want to know an easy way to have a chat room available to Mac users on your site? Well, since there isn't a way for those users to access the MSN Chat Rooms, set up your own outside of MSN! There are a number of free chat hosts out there on the net. Try searching Google or Yahoo...you should come up with several. I chose to use Bravenet because of the very easy setup, and the options of other services that I can add on at any time--services like a Guest Book, a Guest Map, and web hosting--all for FREE. There are upgrades to the service that give you more options, but they are not free, although competitively priced. Click on the link below and see for yourself what I have created! It took all of 5 minutes from the moment I entered the Bravenet site until I was actually in my new Chat Room. How great is that?
Here's the down side, which I learned after-the-fact. Mac and PC users can't chat together. It has to do with Java Versions, and is something that I don't actually understand. I am still searching for a product that will allow both Mac and PC users to chat together and will update this information as soon as I have a valid solution.
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