Lesson 9.3: Customize Your Chat Links

 
Once a chat is published, you can customize its display and other options.
 
Find the publishing page in your Web Site that contains the chat list you wish to customize.
     
Go to the Edit Page button .

     
Scroll down the edit/preview page until you find the posting that contains the chat list.

  Click the "Format Chat Links" link below the chat links on the page.
     
   
  View "Chat Link Options" Page.
From this page you can choose to edit the link style or edit which chats to link to on your Web Site.

 

     
Click the "Link Style" link.

     
View "Link Style" Page.
There are several options that can be changed on this page.
  Select Display Style.
Click the radio button underneath the physical style that you want for your chat list.
  Format Chat Names.

Format Chat Room Description.

Format Chat Date and Time.
  Select a bullet style.

Select Background Colors.
 
     
  Click the Continue button at the bottom of the page.

 

     
  Click the Done button at the bottom of the page when you have finished setting your chat options.

 

     
View changes to the chat link.
You can now see what changes you made to your list of chat links. You can make changes to the physical appearance of this list as often as you wish.

     
Click the "Format Chat Links" link below the chat links on the page once more.
     
View "Chat Link Options" Page.
From this page you can choose to edit the link style or edit which chats to link to on your Web Site.
     
Click the "Link to which chats" link.
     
Choose which chats you want your posting to link to.
This page controls which chats will be linked to from this published chat list. Click on any chat or list of chats to move it from one column to the other
. The left column lists "Available Chats" and the right column lists "Chats already selected."
  All Scheduled Chats
(does not include general chat room).

  Names of each chat available.
  All Active Chats (including general chat room)
     
Click the Done button at the bottom of the page when you have finished setting your chat options.