Add YM Online Status on your site
Saturday, April 25th, 2009It’s very easy to add YM Online status on your site just copy paste several codes, configure it to detect your YM!ID and it’s done.Use this code and replace my ID with yours (sendIM? and u=) and choose a graphic (t=) from 0 – 15.
<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?am3n_group"> <img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=am3n_group&m=g&t=14" border="0" /></a>
If you use WordPress or Joomla even better, there are plugin for those script.Wordpress users can use Yahoo Messenger Online Status and for Joomla can use JP Yahoo Messenger Status With Custom Image
But there is a catch, the visitor need to install Yahoo Messenger client on his/her PC and also need to have Yahoo ID. My friend at Rawabokor use another method, he is redirecting visitor to use YM WebMessenger chat with him. So visitor doesn’t have to install Yahoo Messenger on his/her PC but rather straight open up a new site, login with their Yahoo ID. and have a chat with you. Below is the code: (change with your id after target=)
<a href="http://messenger.yahoo.com/edit/send/?.target=am3n_group"><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=am3n_group&m=g&t=14" border="0" /></a>
Now what if your visitor don’t have a Yahoo ID but you still want them to have a chat with you. Here’s the simple how-to you can follow:
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