How to Create Your Own Chat Site
- 1). Start with a basic site like Chatzy.com, which lets you create a simple text chat room with no registration. For a quick session with invited guests, click "Start Quick Chat," enter the email addresses you want to notify and click "Create My Private Chat Room." Then wait on the site for people to show up.
For something more public, click "Create Virtual Room," which lets you title your room, set a password, define access and allow users to invite others or view the visitor list. You can create several rooms covering different topics, but you'll need to register if you want to save them for continuous use. - 2). Add audio and video chats by going through a more fully-featured site like Oozoo, which is linked under Resources. You'll obviously need hardware like a webcam, microphone and speakers, and need to register for a download utility. You can try out the free version to chat with just one other person. Setting up a chat site for more participants requires payment and the download of a chat widget that you can embed in your blog, social site page or web site.
- 3). Explore three-dimensional avatar-chatting with Moove.com, through which you create an online persona by choosing from face, hair, body and movement options. You can then wander virtual spaces with your creation, learning how to move it and how to chat with other avatars. Though the site is free, paying cash lets you buy things like additional clothes or room furniture.
When you've mastered avatar control, you can create a virtual, 3D room, decorated to your tastes, so you have a place to hang out with other virtual people. The site is suitable for low-level computers and dial-up connections since it does not require a graphics card. - 4). End up with SecondLife.com, which is a paid, 3D virtual world that lets you shaped stand-alone structures and islands into your perfect chat site. You can even use sophisticated programming code to control virtual objects like flying cars, robots and video screens. As a bonus, any in-game currency that you earn by organizing events or selling virtual items can be exchanged for real dollars.
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