Build Community - Add Professionalism to Your Site!
Starting your own Instant Messager can be the single most strategic step for your e-Business. Portals, community sites, ISPs, free-email providers, small sites, personal pages etc. need it to retain their visitors; Corporates need it as a tool to fill the communication gap between their staff members. However the technical aspects and cost associated have been prohibitive for most of the eBusinesses. JMessenger fills this gap with its state-of-art Java delivered turnkey Instant Messaging solution.
JMessenger comes in two flavors, Basic and Pro, allowing Web developers of
any budget range to build a community atmosphere in just 10 minutes!
Getting started is easy:
1. Signup.
2. Insert the HTML code in your webpage(s).
3. Login to your account and customize your service.
- Customize your service name.
- Add your own logo.
- Pro accounts carry your banners (or banners from a third party e.g. Value Click or Double Click). Basic accounts carry the JMessenger
banners.
- Pro accounts allow you to set up your own channels like News, Search, Sports etc. Basic accounts carry the JMessenger channels.
- Pro accounts have the visitor database hosted on your server, Basic accounts do not.
General View:
Instant Messaging is the in-thing today, facilitating your visitors in various ways:
- Visitors can make friends with other visitors.
- Visitors know when their friends are online at the same time and can have a real-time chat with them immediately.
- Corporate use: a tool to keep staff in touch and reduce the communication gap.
- Visitors can leave messages that are delivered automatically to offline friends when they log on.
Webmaster's View (What you get)
JMessenger is based on the ASP model, there is no hardware or software to install, and no heavy MIS budget, technical team or maintenance worries. The application runs on the jmessenger.com servers, eliminating upgrade worries
as well. The database is hosted on your own server, giving you full access to it.
A web-based control panel allows you to customize your service, manage your users, keep track of activity, and start channels.
With your own branded and seamless instant messenger your site gets a professional aura. You join the league with Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ etc.
Surfer's View (What your visitors get)
When you start your own instant messenger on your site, your visitors can
- become members
- find new friends
- know when their friends are online
- chat/conference with online friends
- leave a message for offline friends which they receive when they
come online
- transfer files
- invite their friends to join your service
- surf the channels
Your visitors need not be limited to the visitors of your site, they make friends from other sites on the JMessenger network. Your site offers a bigger community without your user's knowing that it is not part of your site.
Your visitors get the experience of surfing a professional site.
Sign up for JMessenger at their site, or read the
FAQ for more information.
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