For the business owner who’s never used Rumbletalk chat before, it can be daunting to know where to begin. But fear not! The following guide breaks down all the steps required to get your chat set up and ready to use in no time flat. In this article, you’ll learn how to sign up and how to quickly get your new chat up and running—you’ll be sending messages just minutes from now!

What is RumbleTalk chat?

RumbleTalk is a web-based chat platform that you can embed into your website. With six different kinds of chats and plenty of powerful engagement tools – it’s never been easier to connect with your audience. Since this platform is cloud-based, there’s no need for you to spend time installing programs or worrying about bandwidth: we’ve got everything taken care of for you.

Where can I use RumbleTalk chat?

RumbleTalk lets you create conversation areas on your website. It can be used to boost engagement and activity in any space at anytime.

Use it as a community chat where your visitors can engage with fellow clients on your website. For events, where your chat moderators can host Q&A sessions and polls to interact with the audience. You can even use it for a private, one-on-one conversation such as online tutoring or health consultations.

Other usages can be for live streams, job fairs, e-learning platforms, and so much more!

Create a free account

To start, go to the RumbleTalk website and sign up.

You will be redirected to the RumbleTalk chat log-in interface. Input your preferred email and password to proceed. You can also sign-up using your Facebook account.

Choose your preferred Chat Type

After logging in, you will be asked to choose from the 3 main chat types below:

Group Chat

The Group Chat is a public chat room that is open to all your visitors. Here, anyone can join the chat room using their email, Facebook account, or even anonymously.

It is perfect for websites with open communities where your visitors can discuss a certain topic.

Expert’s Chat

The Expert’s Chat is a one-on-one chat room where you, as the admin, are the only one who can initiate a conversation with your audience. So, this chat room can serve as your private consultation room.

It can be used by medical professionals, in private consultations, or as a meeting room.

Moderated Chat

The Moderated Chat is a group chat with an administrator that has access to a slew of moderation tools. Some of those features include the ability to accept or reject a message before it goes live.

Moreover, the admin can also slow down the chat, mute everyone, ban problematic users, host Q&A sessions, and more.

After selecting your chat type in this stage, you are free to change it anytime.

Integrate your RumbleTalk chat into any platform

From the chat settings, you can copy the provided one line of code and paste it into your website.

You will also have the option to add your group chat to your Facebook page or to access it from the URL we provide you. Your choice!

RumbleTalk simplifies embedding a smarty-designed, cloud-based group chat into your webpage or live event. We made it convenient with our integrations, add-ons, and chat plugins. Use it on WordPress, Joomla, Angular, React, and Wix.

Furthermore, your chat rooms are also built with HTML 5. So, they can be easily customized to fit your desired look and feel. Here’s a quick guide on how to personalize your chat.

Invite your Participants

There are a couple of methods you can use to invite your audiences into the chat room.

First, send them your chat room code. Just copy the Hash code at the bottom left of your chat room then send it to your audience.

Second, send a QR code that your participants can scan using their mobile phones. To generate the code, click on the gear icon to open Options, then choose QR. You can post the QR on your social media, invitations, emails, or posters.

Watch your community grow even more social and dynamic

A free online chat platform that lets you chat with website visitors and community members in the comfort of their homes? That sounds pretty good, right? It’s not just good, it’s awesome—and here’s why.

Online chat platforms are one of the best ways to build trust with potential customers, answer their questions in real-time, and help them feel more comfortable about buying from you and your company.

If you’re ready to create an inclusive, accessible community that is unique to your business, this is it!

Get started by setting up a free account! For further assistance, you can email us at support@rumbletalk.com.

Online communities are stronger than ever. This is where we connect, support each other, and celebrate our successes. Each community is unique. Each world was created to highlight your particular culture.

Furthermore, even for non-members, searchable online communities are an invaluable source of first-hand information — don’t we all like to read user reviews when purchasing a product?

The value of online communities for both members and non-members cannot be overstated. Nonetheless, even the most popular communities have noticed a trend for users to leave and form closer-knit sub-communities on other platforms using other real-time messaging apps.

The reason was quickly discovered. Online communities in their basic format failed to provide one of the required functions — a private conversation space.

In this post, we will analyze why community members may seek chatting options and how online communities can address this issue and retain their user base by incorporating a chat function.

What Are the Benefits of Including Real-Time Chat in Online Communities?

Communities would want to share and respond to the latest as it happens, with the internet making news constantly accessible and ever-changing.

You’ll be able to give your community a way to chat and share rich media about topics that are important to them at any time they want with real-time chat. Your platform can then be a driving force for relevant, timely conversations. This encourages users to keep all of their conversations on your platform rather than using other messaging services.

Within the platform, you’ll be able to create smaller communities, encouraging more interaction and catering to every interest and type of content.

Utilizing minisites to create online communities

Online communities lack real-time communication. They feed on forums and websites but never live chat. RumbleTalk offers both. Online communities can create minisites to do the following:

1. Create a mini page for their community website
2. Utilize online chat rooms to connect with their community

So, let’s discover on how you can create a minisite that has an embedded chat room. Let it change the way you approach your online communities.

Improve communication by using a minisite with a chat room

In this section, we’ll walk you through the steps necessary to create your own miniature website. You’ll be surprised how simple it is!

1. Sign up for a RumbleTalk account. Simply visit our website and click Sign up.
2. On your admin panel, you’ll see Pages. This will take you to another page. This is referred to as a minisite.
3. Arrange it however you want. We’ve created a default template so you don’t have to worry about what you’ll put on the page. All you have to do is adapt it to your online community.

The Pages feature assists in creating more connected communities. As there’s a chat room embedded in the minisite, members can log in and chat away. It helps to:

• Develop strong relationships. Members can drop in at any time to see who’s there and talk to each other.
• Social gatherings and events. There are numerous conversation areas, allowing everyone to make a genuine connection. Community admins can also use the YouTube link to host live events.
• Revenue potential. For special pages or topics, you can add a paywall to your chat room.

The Answer

At this point, no other platform can compete with online communities in terms of resources. The users are the key to this wealth, as they crowdsource information to create a robust and searchable repository.

However, aside from posting on forums and searching for content, online communities offer just that. This is where real-time chat can elevate the experience by encouraging interpersonal communication, interaction, and support based on the knowledge already available on the platform. It’s a fantastic combination that benefits both platform providers and users.

If you want to know more about real-time chatting and its benefits, then contact support@rumbletalk.com to get a free demo.

When you know how, customizing your chat room is simple. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the RumbleTalk admin panel to customize the look and feel of your chat room.

Why the need to customize chat rooms?

Because the chat room is a separate entity from your website, it is best to align your chat design with the overall look of your site. When the website and chat plugin are not in sync, there is a disconnect. As a result, you can easily customize your chat design with RumbleTalk’s customization features at any time.

Beginning with CSS

When you paste CSS code, it will be reflected in your group chat. Web and mobile browsers use different codes. So, check out these links for codes that you can use.

• Text style tricks using CSS
• 27 Easy Chat CSS Tricks for Designing your Own Chat Room (WEB & MOBILE)
• 11 CSS tricks to style up your mobile group chat theme

How should CSS be used?

Follow these steps if you are new to RumbleTalk or don’t know where to find the CSS option.

Navigate to Design > Visual Design.

Scroll to the bottom of the Visual Design tab.

The CSS editor is available for both mobile and web browsers.

Begin with these introductory CSS articles for web and mobile.

• Introduction to Mobile CSS
• Introduction to Web CSS

NOTE: If you return to the Visual Design tab (for example, to change background images), your code will be reset. This means you can only have one custom design, either in CSS or in Visual Design. Furthermore, it is best to leave CSS editing to the professionals to avoid making mistakes. If you don’t have a designer, you can use the links above to copy and paste the codes you need for your group chat theme.

Samples of CSS styles

• Message text borders

To add a border for all messages, the code you will need is as follows:

.message-text{
color:#fff;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
font-weight: bold;
}

After pasting it on the editor, it will look like this.

• Username border

To add a border for all usernames, the code you will need is as follows:

.message-user-name{
font-weight: bold;
color:rgba(0,150,245,1.00);
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}

After pasting it on the editor, it will look like this.

• Combining both border CSS styles

Why not try combining the two styles now that we’ve shown you in the examples above?

To combine them, simply paste both codes into the editor and separate them with a space by pressing Enter on your keyboard. The code should then look like this in the editor.

.message-user-name{
font-weight: bold;
color:rgba(0,150,245,1.00);
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}
.message-text{
color:#fff;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
font-weight: bold;
}

Here’s how it will look like when you combine the two styles.

You can do this for a variety of styles. So, try your hand at it or delegate the technical work to your designer. More tricks can be found in the articles, so choose the best one for your group chat room.

Simple customization for beginners

The Visual Design tab allows for more in-depth customization. You will notice that six subtabs can be customized.

• General
• Users List
• Chat Area
• Text Box
• Dialog Box
• Messages

Each of this corresponds to a chat room element. You can change the background image and color, as well as the text color, font size and style, and so on. Let’s change the background color in this example. Upload an image or paste an image URL in the Background Image section of the General subtab to accomplish this.

Another example would be changing the colors of the messages. You would need to select the Messages subtab for this. You will find several customization options for your message box here (how messages appear in the chat room). Let’s experiment with changing the color of each message box. In the tab below, select a message color.

Here’s what it would look like.

This is how fundamental chat customization works. All you have to do is choose or upload an image, and you’re done.

A simple method to customize your chat rooms

You can customize the appearance and feel of your chat room without the assistance of a developer. RumbleTalk is a simple platform that allows you to personalize your chat room. There are skins and CSS codes that you can use right away.

It’s a chat platform that can be easily customized for your website. To request a free demo, email support@rumbletalk.com.