Schedule for 8/16 - 8/23

To log into a Blackweekly.com room and start chatting, enter your user name (any nickname) and click "OK Connect!" Your user name must be a unique for your current chat session. You may also enter Your Profile, Email address, and a password (if have you been given password access or if you are a Blackweekly.com Community Leader or Host).

Get user information
You can get information on a any user in a room. To see this information click on the visitor's name from within the user list. Any information that the user entered into the 'Your Profile' section will be displayed in the main chat room for you to view. If a user has signed up for membership, they their member profile link will be diplayed.

To send a message/start chatting
Chat messages are displayed in the main chat window. To add to the conversation, type in your message in the text box below the main chat window area and click on 'Send' button or hit the return key on your keyboard. If you are on a Macintosh you will need to hit the Return button on your keyboard. By default your message is sent to all users.

Send a private chat request to a user
You can send a private chat request to any user in a room. To send the request to the visitor, click on the visitor's name from within the user list, and click on the 'Private Chat' button. You can also double click on a user to invoke the private chat command. You will see a smaller window pop up and you can chat with the user in that window.

Ignore a user
You can ignore any visitor in a room. To ignore a user higlight a user's name, from within the chat user list, and then click on the 'Ignore' button. All ignored users will display a strike-thru through their name. You will not see anything the ignored visitor types, and the ignored visitor will be unable to have a private chat with you. To un ignore a visitor, click on the user's name from within the chat user list, and click on the 'Accept' button. You can ignore as many people as you wish.

Ignore Private Messages
You can ignore all private messages. When a private message is initiated you can click on the 'Ignore' checkbox and all future private messages will not be seen.

Log Off button
If you wish to leave a chat room, click on the 'Log off' button and you will exit the room

Control Panel

Customize your chat session & roam to a different room
The 'Control Panel' button envokes the Blackweekly.com Control Panel. The control panel allows you to customize your chat session. The control panel allows you to do the following:

Rooms Tab - diplays other available rooms chat in.

Create Tab - create a new public or hidden room

Users Tab - search for other users

Color Tab - diplays a list of colors that you can use to change your displayed user name in the main chat window.

Icons Tab - click on a icon to be displayed in the main chat window.

Font Tab - local font size, my user font, and window color.

Settings Tabs

Double space text
Beep on enter
Beep on exit
Join/leave message
Timestamp messages
Heartbeat - set a pulse to stay connected to the chat room
Block all private - blocks all private massages
Turn off Profile - turns off profile information
Page admin (if room admin is present)
Admin Console (if you are logged in as admin)
Moderation Console (if moderation is turned on)

Bold Button If you wish to BOLD your messages in the main chat window.

Italic Button If you wish to Italicize your messages in the main chat window.

Color Button If you wish to change the color of your messages in the main chat window.

Emotion Button -Keyboard Shortcut

:) Smile

:( Angry

:D Big Grin

B) Cool

:)) Laugh

:O Oh My

(:) Ninja

:L Tongue

o:o Wacko

>:) Wub

;) Wink

Float Button
If you wish to resize your chat room, click on the "Float" button. This option opens the chat room in a separate window. This separate window can be resized and moved about on your screen. Close the window or click Unfloat to return the window to the original Web page. The default size of the floating window is 75% of your screen. Drag a corner or edge to resize it.

Clipboard Button
Click the "Clipboard" button to "screen dump" the chat text from within your main chat window into a separate plain text window. When the chat text appears in the plain text window, you may copy the text using your keyboard's "CTRL-C" Copy function, or your "right-mouse" button's "Copy" option.

"User(s) in" This option displays the number of people in the room.

Page Room Admin
To page the room administrator / operator , open your control panel, click on the Settings tab and then click "Page Room Admin" button. This will notify the admin user that you would like to chat with them. If the admin is not present, you will be given a message notifying you of this fact.

Leaving a chat room
If you wish to leave the chat room click on the "Log off" button.