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The Benefits of a Responsive Chat Room

RumbleTalk offers chats rich in features that are not only user and admin-friendly, but also fully responsive chat rooms.

No matter what device you use, you need to have a good view of the content on it. This is especially important with a chat room. A responsive chat environment should give you just that; a seamless transition between devices and screen sizes. Users should be able to access content easily. And hosts shouldn’t have to jump through hoops just to support various devices.

As such, we designed RumbleTalk chat to complement and improve a website rather than prevent it from achieving its potential. The chat works perfectly on mobiles, tablets, and computers alike. As you can imagine, these devices have vastly different resolutions and aspect ratios, but RumbleTalk chat is well designed and responsive no matter the specs.

What Makes a Responsive Chat Room Responsive?

So what makes a responsive chat room responsive? It takes a little more than for it to just resize to fit the screen. While that is enough to make most “regular” websites work on mobile devices, it takes more for a chat room. Some functionality has to be different, such as the way the messages are displayed and how notifications are received. You also have to think about how you access the chat. It should be easy to use and clearly marked, but not so intrusive that you can’t see anything else.

RumbleTalk solves these problems very nicely with a set of mobile-views with individual controls that affect certain screen sizes. With simplified options for chat participants on mobile devices, it’s just as easy to use as a chat window on bigger devices. This applies not only to the JavaScript version, but also to other platforms. Amongst these is Wix—a popular drag & drop website builder, as well as other well-known names like WordPress and Joomla.

No matter the environment, screen size, or device type, the chat is fully functional and makes for a pleasant user experience. File upload and sharing, group chats, individual chats, and sending video and audio messages all work well on multiple devices and screen sizes. Being on the go no longer means being restricted in what you can see, and how you can take part.

Hosting a Responsive Chat Room

As for the host side of it, whether you have a Wix or self-hosted website, there are sets of options for different devices. All of them are also compatible with the variety of skins and themes offered to customize the look and feel of your chat. Best yet, RumbleTalk’s responsive chat is fully HTML and CSS compliant and you can easily customize it.

Your chat isn’t bound in one place either. While a boxed and fixed chat is certainly possible, a floating icon that opens a chat on click or touch is also an option. This ensures your chatroom is always accessible, but doesn’t take over the rest of the site. On a mobile device the chat changes to look similar to most messaging and texting apps, making for an intuitive user experience.

In short; no matter the display, the content is easy to read and the interface very user friendly. You get similar experiences if you move from computer to tablet or even mobile. For a host the setup is simple to use and highly customizable, opening up the possibilities for experienced web developers and first-time designers alike. Through RumbleTalk’s responsive chat technology, online communities can freely interact from wherever they are, and however they want to access the web.

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How to Add and Set a Wix Chat Room

With RumbleTalk, embedding a Wix chat room on your website has never been easier. RumbleTalk isn’t just useful for the tech-savvy and developers. It can be used just as easily by your everyday Internet-user. In fact, it can be implemented in websites built with the web-tool Wix in just a few minutes—no coding knowledge required!

How to Add a Chat Room to Wix

You can embed the chat in Wix templates with a few clicks. For HTML5 templates, simply visit the Wix marketplace. Click on the app market icon, look for RumbleTalk, and click on “Add to site” at the top right. That’s it—then it will appear on your website with default settings.

RumbleTalk Wix Chat Room

You can drag and drop it to your preferred location, as well as change the dimensions like any other Wix app. This means the chat is ready to go and functional immediately after you place it (and publish the site).

Here is a quick YouTube video illustrating how to add the chat in Wix:

Wix Chat Room Customization with RumbleTalk

If you want something different to the default settings, you can edit them very easily in the Wix editor. Simply click on the embedded chat in your Wix editor and select the “Settings” button in the bottom-right corner.

The customization options include the same things you can customize if you embed the RumbleTalk chat in any kind of website. You can change the theme, the overall settings, and even the chat language. You can create moderators and restrict what your users can use to chat with; for example, social media networks Facebook and Twitter.

Here is a YouTube video showing the different options:

You can also set filters to restrict certain topics from appearing, and you can filter out embedded links, images, and videos to avoid spammers in the chat. These settings are easily accessible by clicking on the embedded chat in the Wix editor and clicking on the “settings” button.

Visual Customization and Flash

Visual customization is possible with your Wix chat room too. You can select from dozens of different premade skins, or customize one to fit your website and your chat theme. This includes a background image and color options. The premade options include enough variety to suit most websites, making this chat the ideal solution for users that don’t have the time to set up and customize too much about their chat.

For Wix Flash templates, there are a few extra steps you need to take to embed the chat. First you will need to get your RumbleTalk JavaScript code from the RumbleTalk website. This can be done by logging into your RumbleTalk account and clicking on your chat name. Simply click on “Get Chat Code” and locate the radio button with the code box. Copy the code from the box.

With that code, go to the Wix editor and click on the plus button on the left side of the editor. Click on Widgets – HTML – Blank HTML. Next, paste the code into the HTML code box that appears and click on “save.” You can then use, move, and edit the widget however you like. After saving and publishing your website, the chat will work just like in the HTML5 template example.

RumbleTalk Chat in Wix

If you change your mind about your settings, theme, or options later, you can change them at any time by logging back into your Wix panel and changing them in the settings menu. Similarly, you can move, resize, and redesign the chat whenever you would like.

Mobile and Responsive Chat

Your embedded RumbleTalk chat via Wix is fully mobile responsive and will work and display properly across all kinds of screen sizes and devices. You can check this using the Wix mobile view tool. Once there, you can also adjust settings specific to the mobile version of your site if necessary.

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Chat Room Sound Control: How to Silence Your Chat

We have many great chat customization options, including chat room sound control. As one of the best chat providers on the market, it’s no surprise that those options go beyond background images and themes.

Chat notifications and sounds aren’t news of course. We’ve all heard them, and likely be annoyed by the constant beeping that can’t always be turned off easily—if at all. With RumbleTalk chat, both users and the host can silence a chat they are a part of. Why do this? It could be anything from the sounds being distracting in a quiet environment to being a passive observer that doesn’t want a beep every time a message is posted.

Regardless of the reason, it’s very simple to change your sound options in the chat.

How to Change Your Sound Options—For Admins and Chat Owners

For the chat owners or hosts, it is particularly easy to do. In the Multimedia tab, there is a setting that mutes the entire chat for everyone. That means that nobody gets any audible notifications.

How to Change Your Sound Options for Admins and Chat Owners

In addition, admins can also change the type of sound that is heard by everyone (of course, only if the chat is not muted). There are multiple different options. Things like messages, private messages, a call, or a user leaving can each have their own distinctive sound.

This is completely optional of course, and all those options come with a default setting. There is no setup needed unless the customization is necessary. For unsure hosts or admins, there is even a test-play feature. Use this when the sounds really need to be spot on. All these options are found in the multimedia tab alongside the general mute option.

The setting is available even while the chat is active. So if a chat room ends up more active than expected, the owner can always choose to mute it later on or at the request of a user.

Chat Room Sound Control for Users

But if the owner does not mute the general chat, a user may still want to.

For a user, silencing the chat they are in is only a click away. In the taskbar at the bottom, there is an icon of a loudspeaker. Click on the loudspeaker to mute the entire chat. This can be very useful in groups, quiet places like a library, or when no headphones are available.

In a particularly busy chat, the noises can simply get overwhelming too—with a beep for every new message, users may find they prefer checking manually.

Chat Room Sound Control for Users

Either way, click on the loudspeaker icon to undo muting the chat.

Chat Room Sound Control on Mobile

It is similarly easy for a mobile chat. You can access RumbleTalk chat rooms on various mobile devices, and they too have a mute option. At the bottom of the menu, next to options that control font size and full-screen options, there is a loudspeaker symbol that lets users turn off sounds.

Chat Room Sound Control on Mobile

Like with the desktop version, this can, of course, be undone at any point with another click on the same symbol. Particularly on mobile, this can be an extremely useful option.

Accessing a chat on a phone is often more convenient than bringing along a laptop—with over half of Internet traffic already taking place on mobile devices, it’s no surprise chat functions are very popular there as well. Yet with phones being everywhere, there are far more situations where the constant beeping of chat sounds could be an annoyance.

Since not every provider is likely to turn off the sounds altogether, this feature can make using the chat much more convenient.

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