Want people to be able to call you on Skype when they visit your website? Do you want people to know that you are online on Yahoo! messenger and they can initiate a chat session by simply clicking the icon or the button on your website? This is a very good way of encouraging your visitors to contact you immediately especially if you conduct business through your website.
Normally when you are online the two icons look like:
These icons change color or text when you are offline so that your visitors know when they can contact you directly.
Putting Yahoo! chat icon or button
Putting a Yahoo! chat icon is very easy. You can have it as a text link or a graphic link. In order to have a text link, just use this sort of HTML tag:
Note: There are some line-breaks in the code that you’ll have to manually remove.
<a href = 'ymsgr:sendim?your_yahoo_id'>Send me a message</a>
Replace "your_yahoo_id" with your actual Yahoo! id.
And if you want a graphic icon, use this:
<a href = 'ymsgr:sendim?your_yahoo_id'> <img src='http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=your_yahoo_id&m=g&t=2' border=0></a>
The value of t can vary according to the sort of icon you want.
Putting Skype icon or button
Although you can easily log into your Skype account and find out how to put a Skype button on your website, if you don’t want to go to all that trouble, you can simply use this code:
<script type="text/javascript" src='http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js'> </script> <a href='skype:your_skype_id?call'> <img src='http://mystatus.skype.com/balloon/your_skype_id' style='border: none;' width='150' height='60' alt='My status' /></a>
You can customize the button by logging into your Skype account. Before you can use the Skype status icon you’ll need to change your Skype privacy settings.
