Chat Live Updated

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2010 07:05 Written by aoirthoir Friday, 5 November 2010 07:03

Today we dug into the Afterburner theme and created a new page template for chat. We’re hoping that this leads to a better experience for those chatting with us via the web interface. In playing around with it today, I definitely found it to be better for myself. So here’s what we did.

1. Eliminated the right and left side panel.
2. Widened the chat widget to the full width of the site.
3. Eliminated Author info, Comments and so on. Chat just needs chat and nothing more.
4. Made the chat area taller.
5. Put a green border around the chat to distinguish it more clearly from the surrounding page.
6. Reduced clutter in the title, and extra un-needed padding.

That of course gives us some ideas for the future. So some ideas I am tossing around include:

1. Creating Mozilla, Chrome and other “apps” out of our chat page, or just out chat room entirely and eliminating ALL of the non-chat related clutter.
2. Somehow publically logging the chats, right on the main chat link. That way anyone that missed out can catch up.

If anyone has any suggestions please post below in the comments section.