The AsiaPacificUniverse.com chatrooms now require Javascript and cookie-enabled browsers to work properly.
Added features include the ability to block users from appearing on your screen and easy select options allowing you to change the appearance of the text in your messages. A navigating window allows you to see other members in the room and also to monitor other chatrooms on APU.
The chatrooms are HTML-enabled in a restricted sense. Images are automatically resized to a height of 60 pixels, so it is not recommended to post anything of a smaller height. Resizing images to a larger size usually causes significant loss of quality.
ChatBot is a program designed to greet, chat with and bid farewell to chatters. The program responds to messages containing chatbot and will also answer questions containing this name and ending with ?. You can ask Chatbot for opinions on just about everything, but realize that Chatbot is still in the beta testing stage and not all the answers will make sense. Have fun!
In order to format text for the Web, you must have a basic understanding of HTML script.
Using HTML, you must place tags everywhere you want the text altered. All tags are placed within <>. For example, if you want a part of your text in bold script you would use the tag <b> to mark the beginning of the bold text and </b> to mark the ending of the bold text. Thus:
She made her point <b>very</b> clear. (in HTML)
She made her point very clear. (on the webpage)
You must always close tags with </>. So, if you want something in italics:
<i>She</i> made her point very clear.
She made her point very clear.
or else,
<i>She made her point very clear.
She made her point very clear.
The HTML tags allowed in the chat rooms are:
bold = <b>
italic = <i>
blinking = <blink>
You can also use the tags <font face=>, <font color=>, and <font size=>, which we will discuss further below. Here is some text with the other tags above, followed by the result as it would appear on the webpage:
<blink>Hello</blink>, it's very <b>hot</b> where<i> I'm</i> at right now.
becomes:
, it's very hot where I'm at right now.
Font Color
To change the color of the text you use the <font color=> tag. The color you desire would be placed in quotations after the "=" sign. So to make text red you use:
<font face="red">She made her point very clear.</font>
She made her point very clear.
Whenever using any tag proceeded by "font" you can close the tag using just </font>. So to close <font color=>, <font face=>, etc., use </font>.
Some color names used by Netscape are as follows:
[antiquewhite * aqua * azure * beige * black * blue * brown * chartreuse * cornflowerblue * crimson * darkcyan * ivory * lemonchiffon * lightblue * lightyellow * magenta * maroon * mediumpurple * mediumturquoise *moccasin * navy * orange * darkgray * darkgreen * darkpink * firebrick * fuchsia * gold * greenyellow * hotpink * indigo * papayawhip * rosybrown * salmon * silver * slateblue * tan * tomato *yellow]
Font Face
Font faces are the basic font faces found in most text editors. Simply mention the desired face in quotes after the "=" in the <font face=> tag:
<font fact="Arial">She made her point very clear.</font>
She made her point very clear.
You can also use the various graphic fonts in your text. Below we have some of the popularly supported graphic fonts. Each font face will correspond on the keyboard to the respective symbol given in the Times Roman font below:
Times Roman
Here are some graphic fonts:
Vacation MT
Bon Appetit MT
Monotype Sorts
Symbol
Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3
Wingdings
As we stated above, the graphic fonts correspond respectively to the symbols in the Times Roman font given above. So the happy face found in the Wingdings font (10th symbol from the left on 2nd line) correponds to the same position in Times Roman.
The 10th symbol from the left on the second line in Times Roman is "J". So the happy face symbol would be represented in HTML by:
<font face="Wingdings">J</font>
Please remember that not all font faces and font colors are supported by all browsers. What you and the viewer see may differ depending on the fonts supported by each browser.
Font Size
Font size is controlled by inserting a number value after the "=" sign in the <font size=> tag.
<font size=1>She made her point very clear.</font>
She made her point very clear.
<font size=6>She made her point very clear.</font>
She made her point very clear.
Combining tags
You can use as many tags as you like to alter text. Study the example below:
<font size=5><font color="green"><font face="Mead Bold"><b>She</font></font></font> made <i><font face="Arial">her</i> point very <font color="red"><font size=4><font face="Impress">clear.</font></b>
She made her point very clear..
Notice that "She" is followed by three </font> tags closing the previous tags for size, color and face.
Images
You can also have your photograph or other images uploaded for approval by the staff before placement in your own personal image library. Image file size for each image must not exceed 3KB, and must be no more than 52 pixels high and 72 pixels wide.
Each approved image will receive an ID number prefix. This number must be used to link to the image. The HTML tag for images is:
<img src="your_image_id.gif">
So, if your photograph is approved with the ID#00000and you want to insert it in your page or message use the following tag whereever you want the image to appear:
<img src="00000.gif">
We hope this chat tutorial has been helpful to you and that it will help you have more fun chatting on the Web! Please tell your friends about our service!
If you need more help try the following resources:
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners