Chatting With Visitors to Your Personal Web Page
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Instant Messaging Pingbox Contacts
Either you or your visitor can begin sending instant messages. You just need to be signed into Messenger so that you can use a conversation window. Sending and receiving instant messages is just about the same as when you converse with your contacts as described in Using Instant Messaging. The difference is that most of the features are removed, such as sending files, using IMVironments and Audibles, and making calls.
Here’s How
Notes:
Unless the visitor chooses to identify him or herself
with a nickname, you’ll see Visitor # under
the Pingbox™ group in
your Messenger List. The number is an incremental value that continues
to increase up to 9999.
Each website has different rules about who can visit your
page. Some allow anyone to visit while others require you to specify
who can visit. Yahoo! Messenger never knows who is visiting your page,
so consider any visitor to be anonymous and take care when conversing
with that person.
Each conversation you have with a visitor is between the
two of you. No one else can see your messages.
To begin an instant message conversation, double-click the visitor’s label under the Pingbox group.
A conversation window opens (if a visitor begins the conversation, the window also opens). This window looks very similar to the conversation window you usually use to instant message your friends. It doesn’t look like the Pingbox you customized. That look and feel is for visitors to your Web page.
Type your message in the input area.
If you want to add an emoticon, click the emoticon button, then select from the palette.
Note: To learn more about emoticons, take a look at Using Emoticons. Other features, such as Audibles, sending files, and changing the text color and size are not available when conversing with a Pingbox visitor.
Press the Enter key.
The visitor sees your message in the Pingbox and you see it at to top of the conversation window. You’ll see your visitor’s response in this area as well.
What’s Next
You can’t ignore Pingbox visitors and their instant messages. You can however, disable a Pingbox if you begin receiving unwanted messages. You can also delete the Pingbox. The next task shows you how.
Words to Know
- Audible: an animated character inserted in an instant message that says something out loud to your contact after you send your message, such as "Welcome" or "Dude!"
- Ignore List: a list of people from whom you don’t want to see or hear anything while you’re using Yahoo! Messenger.
- IMVironment (IMV): a themed environment that you can select when instant messaging your friends. Potentially, both you and your friends see the IMV during your conversation.
- Pingbox: an embedded box on a Web page where visitors to the page can send you instant messages and which lists visitors on your Messenger List.
- Pingbox group: a unique Messenger List group that lists visitors to the Web page to which you added a Pingbox.