Display your AIM/iChat Status On Your Website
19 September 2007, Hedi |
Here’s the how to display your iChat Status like this one (you also see it in action here):
On your website insert this line of code:
1 2 | <a title="aim:AIM_ACCOUNT" href="aim:goim?screenname=AIM_ACCOUNT"> <img src="http://big.oscar.aol.com/AIM_ACCOUNT?on_url=http://ONLINE_IMAGE_LINK&off_url=OFFLINE_IMAGE_LINK" alt="iChat Status" /></a> |
You have to replace the AIM_ACCOUNT with your AIM screename or iChat screename; example: steve@mac.com
And you have to replace ONLINE_IMAGE_LINK & OFFLINE_IMAGE_LINK with the path to your online and offline images.
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hi… i see that you have an ichat status icon on your site and did a test and it opened ichat for me. i have been trying to set up this code on my .mac website, however, i have been unable to get it to work. is there any way you could give me some advice or refer me to someone that could help me get this going…? thanks in advance… :o)
Did you carefully inserted the code as you can see it in the image above?
Thanks Hedi for this great advice!
Daiz: you may had made the same mistake as i : You have to replace this : “Online_IMAGE” by the URL of the image you want to put (that says you’re online).
Same with Offline_Image.
This is so helpful, man you eh know how much you helped me here. I’m preparing my website for a revamp and this will come in real handy!
I found this thread by mistake, but I must say it was very well worth finding. Very nice I must say, now it goes well with my Skype status so they will both show up.
Thank you for the post.
Just a note for non Safari users, if you use FireFox or IE or other browser you may want to add this to the end of the code.
style=”border: none;”
so it will look like this at the end:
alt=”iChat Status” style=”border: none;” />
that way you don’t get the blue or border shape around the images.