SideSparks - Free Chat for your Homepage, Blog or Website

SideSparks, based on XAjax technology, is a seamless method of real-time communication for your Website visitors to discuss your products or current issues. Join this new way of communication and enhance the user experience for your most valuable commodity: the people visiting your Website or blog. It offers free chat for your Blog or Homepage. SideSparks is compatible with custom Websites and WordPress blogs. It's free of charge, free of ads, and no registration is required. Read on to discover more about our three different products. Sidesparks offers a free chat Website integration.

SideSparks On The Fly allows your Website audience to communicate with you or like-minded people in real-time. Create a large community and let people interact with your brand. You can also get superuser rights for your own channel for free.

If you're looking for a premium version of SideSparks On The Fly with a customized design or you are interested in a closed community for existing profiles, please contact us.

SideSparks Tagged Chat is the new method of topic-related communication on the net. Do you own a self-hosted WordPress blog or news Website?
Why not take the next step from static comments to real-time communication? Just imagine: an interesting topic comes up tomorrow that you would like to discuss with some like-minded users. Wouldn't it be exciting to share the thoughts you have about this topic in real-time? Don't you think your audience would like to communicate in this way? Give them that chance.

SideSparks Tagged Chat is a free and easy to install widget that detects the tags of the topic you are writing about. It therefore provides a space where visitors to your Website can discuss a particular product or issue in real-time with visitors from other blogs and Websites.

Samples of links to place below your articles

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With our SideSparks Firefox Widget you can use SideSparks anywhere on the net, regardless of whether a Website has installed SideSparks or not. Before you join a specific channel, you can see what people are already there. You can also see other people who have installed the widget when they are on a Website at the same time as you. If you are a heavy SideSparks user this might be the option you like most. And of course it's free of charge, free of malware and without ads.

If you�re interested in modifying SideSparks On The Fly to suit your Websites look and feel,
please take a look at the code we provided you. You will find there different variables like:

var sidesparks_background_bottom = "";

In this sample you can enter the URL of your own image between the quotation marks. You
will find more information in the code.

To help you design your own SideSparks On The Fly interface we prepared
you a Photoshop file with the already premade slices:

Please fill out the following to register for superuser rights:

First Name:

Last Name:

Username:

Password:

IMPORTANT:
You must enter an e-mail address in the following format: yourname@YOURDOMAIN.TLD
We will recognize your domain and grant you superuser rights for this channel only. For example, if
your e-mail address is max@anydomain.com you will get superuser rights for the
channel "anydomain.com". If you are not the owner of the domain and want to
install SideSparks, please ask the domain owner to create an e-mail account for you.

Email:

Domain:

Yes, please inform me about important changes regarding
SideSparks (this is no newsletter, we hate spam as much as you do)

Please Check Your E-Mail Account For Further Instructions

To create your own SideSparks Channel please enter your domain (i.e. mydomain.com):

Max Users per Channel

Link To Your SideSparks Channel

Now just click on the code to copy it and paste it in the place where you want the link to your
SideSparks On The Fly to appear. Please feel free to edit the link to your needs.

Chat Corner For Your Channel

To implement the SideSparks Chat Corner please choose three colors and paste the following code
to the pages where you want the Chat Corner to appear.

Color #1 Color #2 Color #3 (preview in the bottom right corner)

Just click to copy

Futhermore please download the following file and upload
it to your webserver where the file you pasted the code is in

You now might be interested in SuperUser Rights so
that you can kick unwanted users out of your channel

To install SideSparks Tagged Chat on your custom Website
please download our sidesparks.php and sample_index.php:

Some programming skills are required as you must change the
parameters for the tags dynamically:

<a href = "#" onclick = "initSidesparks('tag1 tag2 tag3 tag4'); return false;">
<img src = "http://channels.sidesparks.com/discuss.png" style = "border: 0px;"></a>

It is also necessary to include the following code where SideSparks Tagged Chat is to be placed:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

That's it. If you have a commercial Website and need some help please

Using our WordPress plug-in is very simple. First of all you have to install our sidesparks.php:

There you can modify line 11-14:

$show_on_main_page = false; Do you want to the SideSparks link to be placed on the main page?
$show_on_category = true; Or only in the articles?
$timeOffset = "1"; Please set your timezone here. For an overview click here.

If you want to modify the link to SideSparks Tagged Chat please change this line:
$sidesparksInitLink = '<img src = "http://channels.sidesparks.com/discuss.png" style = "border: 0px;">';

Once you have done this, simply upload sidesparks.php to your WordPress plug-ins folder.

If you want to edit the button please feel
free to modify our button with Photoshop:

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