Sunday, November 18, 2007
21:52 by FoxTwo I must be really free today, it being a Sunday and all. I should be saving London from the demon hordes, yet here I am surfing all over the Internet and just lazily clicking stuff, until....
.... I came across this post on this blog here. In it, the writer talked about how he was getting rid of his shoutbox and replacing it with this new code - a web-based, one to one Windows Live Messenger window, directly to him.
After seeing how he did it, I did a quick mod of the HTML code as presented on the Microsoft website, and made it into a popup chat window. After all, I think my blog sidebars are already pretty dang full, and I don't want to add anything huge right now.
So, I made a new link and put it into my left sidebar, right under the "Email Me" link. Notice the cute little icon of a man? The cool thing is that the tiny little picture of the man you see there actually shows my status - green for online, and grey for offline. The only problem with web-based IM apps is that, well, you can't send me messages when I'm not online.
Go on, give it a click... cool eh? Well, I guess this is the next best thing to having a shoutbox like ping.sg...
Ok I guess you guys wanna see it in action huh? Ok, for one day only, limited time offer, here it is in this blog post - see below:
So, what do you think? Yeah well it's too big to fit into my sidebar anyway, being 300 pixels wide... I guess you could alter the code to make it slimmer, but I was too lazy. Besides, I have already written the javascript code for a popup window, and I'm definitely too lazy to go back and change it all again to make it fit into my sidebar.
Looking at ping.sg's history, people would prefer a popup window anyway :) That's why the "standalone shoutbox" was an almost instant hit among all the regular visitors to the website.
21:52 by FoxTwo I must be really free today, it being a Sunday and all. I should be saving London from the demon hordes, yet here I am surfing all over the Internet and just lazily clicking stuff, until....
.... I came across this post on this blog here. In it, the writer talked about how he was getting rid of his shoutbox and replacing it with this new code - a web-based, one to one Windows Live Messenger window, directly to him.
After seeing how he did it, I did a quick mod of the HTML code as presented on the Microsoft website, and made it into a popup chat window. After all, I think my blog sidebars are already pretty dang full, and I don't want to add anything huge right now.
So, I made a new link and put it into my left sidebar, right under the "Email Me" link. Notice the cute little icon of a man? The cool thing is that the tiny little picture of the man you see there actually shows my status - green for online, and grey for offline. The only problem with web-based IM apps is that, well, you can't send me messages when I'm not online.
Go on, give it a click... cool eh? Well, I guess this is the next best thing to having a shoutbox like ping.sg...
Ok I guess you guys wanna see it in action huh? Ok, for one day only, limited time offer, here it is in this blog post - see below:
So, what do you think? Yeah well it's too big to fit into my sidebar anyway, being 300 pixels wide... I guess you could alter the code to make it slimmer, but I was too lazy. Besides, I have already written the javascript code for a popup window, and I'm definitely too lazy to go back and change it all again to make it fit into my sidebar.
Looking at ping.sg's history, people would prefer a popup window anyway :) That's why the "standalone shoutbox" was an almost instant hit among all the regular visitors to the website.
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Labels: internet, messaging, MSN, shoutbox
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Kitkat @ Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:43:00 PM That looks really awesome!
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FoxTwo @ Monday, November 19, 2007 12:10:00 AM LOL thanks.... I did read YOUR post to trigger this off :)
