I'm looking for a cost-effective (under $100) royalty free web-based chat system that I can easily plug into the code of my web site. The system needs to be customizable in terms of color and font as well as allowing for one specific moderator. basically I plan to have a moderator interacting with everyone else on the site. I know there's tag-board.com but its not really what I'm looking for. Any and all help would greatly be aprreciated! thanks!
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These both are free...\n\nIf you can run ASP code on your host try NatterChat.\n\nhttp://natterchat.citn.net\n\nIf you can run CGI, you may want to try BlueChat.\n\nhttp://www.bluesparks.com
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This place is just great!  It's free and you get to pick from a nice array of layouts, hundreds of colors and fonts.\nIt's not fancy, but it looks good and you can generate as many different kinds as you want.  \n\nhttp://cooltext.com/
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1) yeah Yahoo Answers chops! but all that is available for us is the URLS. by breaking the lines you can allow the code to pass through answers!\n\n2) I read that whole javascript deal... it was overkill for what I needed. the presence api is simpler (no javascript)\n\nsee \nhttp://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=557053&func=3&channel=AIM%20Message%20Boards\n\nfor discussion of the presence api.\n\nPS\nthey have a discussion forum for each aim area!\n\nUPDATE: \n\nif you want to re-create the enitre aim experience... that's a lot of code! visit the discussion forums above!
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The URL below will certainly give you a lot of material and tools for web development.  Whether it has a listing for any Flash generator, I don't know.  The last time I heard, Flash of any flavor isn't free.  I wish you luck and hope that I'm wrong;-)
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You may want to check out FlashChat. It's only $5 to download the software. It is fully customizable and has good functionality when creating multiple rooms, private chats, etc.\n\nIt's also fairly easy to set up and pretty stable.\n\nIt can be downloaded from http://www.tufat.com/script2.htm
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parkerjr2 is right about learning a bit more stuff.\n\nYou might also consider godaddy which has templated sites, forums, shopping carts and so on. Not expensive either.\n\nNothing prevents you from having your site and forum on one host and the shopping cart on another (yahoo has a shopping cart service which many people use - you don't even realize it's yahoo until you check out).
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It really depends on what kind of stuff you need built into the website.  If you need a professional design, it can cost you $500.  If you just need a page with links on it, you can find a guy in a chat room who will do it for free.  There is also the cost of the domain and hosting.  That's generally $8 a year plus maybe $5 a month.
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A no html website? And free to boot? . . . .  well, I supose you could technicaly build it in nothing but javascript. . . . It's going to look funny though, and take alot longer. . . . \n\nIf you meen without KNOWLEDGE of html. . . .  then try http://www.geocities.com
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Try using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I don't know if there is a free trial demo though. And I don't know if it'd work in a chatroom too.
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dont know if this will help you its asite aimed at web developers\n\n\nwww.webforumz.com\n\ngood luck
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Most chat and instant message (IM) services are free of charge. Here are links to some of the more popular services.\nAOL Instant Messenger (AIM): http://www.aim.com\nYahoo! Messenger: http://messenger.yahoo.com\nICQ: http://www.icq.com\nJabber: http://www.jabber.org\nMSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com\n\nAlso take a look at Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is used for group chatting, rather than the one-on-one model of instant messaging. There's information at http://www.irchelp.org .\n\nThe various IM services each use different client programs, but there are also programs out there that will communicate with multiple IM services; these programs are very useful if you need to use more than one service.\nFor Linux: Gaim, http://gaim.sf.net\nFor Mac OS X: Fire, http://fire.sf.net\nFor Windows: Trillian, http://www.trillian.cc\n\nAll these resources are free, except for the Pro version of Trillian.\n\nGood luck!
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excite has a free chat..I used to go there myself. You need to have an excite mail account and that will give you access to other things that excite offers.
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Hello\n\nFrom your question I guess you are intending to make a CMS(Content Management System). Making one such thing from scratch is very difficult. However, there are free CMS software available. Joomla! is a free one but it might be a bit difficult if you are a newbie :(.\n\nHope this helps :)
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It depends on who is going to be hosting the forum.  There are free forums out there but you get the most features if you purchase your own web space with asp or php capabilities.
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You can always look up "parachat" which will create a chat room for you for free. All you have to do and insert it onto a webpage.
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Personaly, my favorite is delphiforums.com - you can start forums for free, but you really get a lot of good admin options if you pay the fee. But you don't NEED to pay. And there are tons and tons of people on delphiforums.  I have a few forums there, and there are dozens of active posters in just one of my groups alone.
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I recommend PHPBB. There are many styles, mods available for PHPBB, in addition to the support of open source community.