Chat Theme – Stylish and Unique to RumbleTalk Online Chat Rooms

As any good web developer knows, an eye-catching theme is key to drawing in visitors. That goes also for chat theme. You take the time to pick the colors, graphics, a layout and ensure everything complements each other.

Now, there are many reasons why a chat room on your website is required.

Chat room for an online community.
You wish to have a way for visitors to interact with one another.
A group chat room discussion for your team.
A live online event where an event chat is needed.

Different options with one common question, what chat theme should we use?

Many developers do not include a chat skin interface on their websites. While functionality has gradually improved, how they look has not. It’s this element that has put many people off, up until now.

Chat Theme — Painful If They’re Missing

There are lots of chat platforms available to choose from, and they’ll offer some good features too. You’ll get a bit more from a professional platform obviously, but essentially with respect to webchat (text only) they’re all giving the basic similar features. They also tend to carry one similar trait we wish they wouldn’t. They’re not easy to customize.

group chat theme

Now we don’t just mean the ability to select from a list of default colors, or to change the chat filter options. We mean the look of the entire chat room window. The rest of the site might look great, but when you add in that chat element, suddenly your skin is broken. You have a window that might match your background color if you’re lucky. What you get more often though, is something that stands out like a sore thumb.

You can probably imagine the sort of impact it has. Yep, quite detrimental. For one, it’s jarring for your visitors. The rest of your site is likely easy to read and very user-friendly. A chat room that breaks the page flow just makes browsing on your site unpleasant. Also, let’s face it, it doesn’t look professional either. It looks like you have spent time on everything else and simply slapped in a chat room at the last moment. Not a great introduction for new visitors…

What We Did about It

Imagine being able to customize your chat client completely. Not just filters and colors, but images, fonts—complete style sheets. It sounds like it’s too good to be true right?

Not in the slightest.

We’ve seen developers face problems like those mentioned before time and time again. So we put our heads together and added what we feel is a highly important aspect to web chats—chat themes!

You may be aware that other providers such as WordPress provide a selection of skins or themes for a website. You may even use them yourself. They’ll cover just about everything to make a site unique, but not for a chat. That’s what we find our and decided to change.

The first of their kind, our skinnable chats let you customize everything about your interface. You can now easily add a chat room to your website, forum, or blog, without killing its look. We’ve opened the doors with our chat to allow you to integrate web-based chat seamlessly.

chat theme circles

These themes are ideal for web developers, webmasters and website owners who, like us, want to bring social elements to their websites. Whether your website is designed for a large or small audience, you are now able to add these elements and keep your site looking thematic throughout!

Chat Theme/Skins — What Can I Customize?

You can use the chat skins to customize literally every part of your chat. Let’s say you have a background image that would really complement your site nicely.

With our skinnable chats, you can now add this as well as changing the colors. We don’t just let you make basic changes though.

For one thing, you can change the size of the entire chat. Meaning you’ll be able to ensure it’s a perfect fit with your page layout. Fonts are another area that can set your sites apart from others. We recognize this, so not only can you change the font type, but even the colors and style.

Meaning you’ll be able to ensure it’s a perfect fit with your page layout. Fonts are another area that can set your sites apart from others. We recognize this, so not only can you change the font type, but even the colors and style.

chat theme settings

Another exciting feature is the ability to change the background for each part of your chat interface. You could add images, colors, and customize each area to get it looking exactly as you want it in the interface.

live online chat room example with chat theme
The possibilities are nearly endless here with chat themes. The important thing is figuring out what works best for your site. Don’t be afraid to play around with the options; you might be surprised just how much you can change. Not to mention all the different looks you can create!

How Well Do They Integrate?

One thing you might be concerned about is just how easy it is to take these chat theme and add them into your site. It’s incredibly simple. The code for all RumbleTalk chats is automatically created. RumbleTalk chat themes are no exception to this. The definitions for your skin get added into the generated code. This then just needs pasting into your site and there you’ll have your new room, complete with theme!
You may well have a flair for creating themes. You might even create interface skins already and provide them to customers. RumbleTalk chats are JavaScript orientated, so they can also be easily added to most sites. Unique site themes can now include chats, something that is changing how a lot of people think about website design.

What They Mean to Our Customers

We’re excited that we can offer themes here at RumbleTalk and we’ve seen some really amazing chats created as a result. It gives you the power to develop your websites and feel confident in the knowledge that the chat room interface you include on your site will look just as good as the rest of it.

Posted on October 31, 2016October 15, 2024 by Editor

Veeam Case Study: Live Event with 4500 chatters in one Chat Room

RumbleTalk is proud to have been a part of a great live event hosted by Veeam®. Veeam embedded RumbleTalk’s group chat room alongside a live broadcast to engage 4,500 unique, concurrent viewers in real time as they launched a new product.

RumbleTalk chat platform withstood the workload because of a server dedicated to the virtual event. Veeam also acknowledged that RumbleTalk provided great post-event service when various statistics on viewers/chatters were requested.

More About Veeam Live Event

Veeam recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™ a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of < 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility.

Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more click here.

Fun fact: The name “Veeam” comes from the phonetic pronunciation of the letters of the acronym for virtual machine, “VM.”

Do you need a live chat room solution?

RumbleTalk is a highly customizable HTML5 group chat service that is able to handle audiences of all sizes.

Posted on October 21, 2016October 15, 2024 by Editor

Live Event Chat and Streaming

Companies today rely more and more on the Internet for their communication. And at the same time, the channels for communicating online are constantly changing. Live event chat and live event stream are the newest additions to the mix. This means that an event, regardless of its size, can be streamed online, and therefore reach a much bigger audience.

Now companies can share their content and events with the entire world, rather than just physical attendees. In the past, the number of attendees would be limited by a variety of things, such as venue size, attendee availability, and timing. Plus, the sheer effort of organizing a meeting or event at a time or date that “works for everybody” is a challenge in and of itself. The bigger the event, the bigger the issues with finding a good time for everyone—it’s all but impossible.

But when companies use live event chat or streams, they can all but eliminate those drawbacks. For example, now you can hold a seminar, or webinar in any one place and stream it to the entire world. This crosses all boundaries, be it continents, time zones, and more.

Live Event Chat Boosts Revenue

As an added perk, this type of service allows companies to increase their revenue, potentially significantly. In a “normal” event, you charge attendees for their seats. Now, it’s also possible to charge for virtual “seats” at virtual events. Usually, companies will charge less for that than the physical seats, however, it’s entirely up to you.

event chat example

All you need to do is to find a reliable and well-functioning service provider to host the live event chat with. One such provider is RumbleTalk. RumbleTalk has an easy-to-use, straightforward service that allows companies to not only set up video streams with invited attendees, but also, a chat room alongside the streams in order to encourage participation and interaction with the hosts.

But that’s not all. Above and beyond these communication services, RumbleTalk provides powerful moderation tools for users. Most importantly, it allows chat hosts to ban trolls and control spammers very effectively. And if people try to interrupt or disturb the flow of things, not a problem—RumbleTalk allows the hosts to deal with troublemakers very effectively.

The Setup

The platform is set up in such a way that it shows the streamed content and a short description or text on one side, and the chat window on the other. There’s also a small statistics bar that always shows how many people are talking or viewing the content at any given time. All users have a profile, allowing them to set a username and a profile picture. This is very useful to the hosting company as well, as it makes it easier to keep an eye on attendance.

In a standard event, often people will talk at the same time, questions may get lost or overlooked, and confusion can ensue. But in RumbleTalk, since the interface uses a chat log, this means that during a live event stream participants can ask questions without any disruption. Then questions can be answered or brought up for discussion at a convenient time later without being lost.

This easy and straightforward chat system means that all the hosts need to do is focus on presenting. In addition to a back and forth question system, the chat also allows viewers to talk to each other. For example, participants can discuss the content they’re viewing without interrupting or bothering other viewers. If the chat window becomes distracting, the video can be “full-screened,” and distractions completely eliminated.

Access It Anywhere and Everywhere

Have you ever wanted to go to a seminar but scheduling conflicts prevented you from attending? Or perhaps you’ve just been unable to make the several hours necessary for it? Well, with streamed events you no longer have to worry. Not only will there usually be an option to see the streamed content after the fact, but it also allows you to watch it on the go! With a pair of headphones and your tablet or phone, simply tune in while traveling. You can also watch it on the train or bus, making the most of your time and learn from the streamed content.

event presentor plus chat

For companies, this means that their content after the fact. Viewers can revisit and re-watch whenever they want. Moreover, companies can easily reuse a well-done webinar and show it for months after the fact. Save the repeated expenses of holding the same event more than once!

This is particularly popular with training videos, induction seminars, and similar events. Anything you can think of can be streamed, talked about in a live chat, and revisited later.

Live event chats, live event streams, and events hosted on the web are the future. Don’t miss out on this innovation and use it for your business too!

Posted on October 16, 2016October 8, 2024 by Editor