ABOUT CHATHOUSE® FEATURES Handles Chatter Names Friend Finder Be Discovered, or, Find A Friend Message Center Pick Up Messages, or, Leave A Message Chatter Search Throughout the House Telegraph Throughout the House Private Rooms ch@tmosphere Family Tree Chatter of the Minute ABOUT CHATHOUSE® MEMBERSHIPS Non-Registered Public Access Chat FREE Registration Membership Benefits Subscriptions Exclusive Features Comparison Chart At A Glance GETTING AROUND IN THE CHATHOUSE® Who's in the Chathouse see who's chatting where The Floor Plan all the rooms at a glance Chathouse® News the latest and greatest The Family Tree our chathouse kith and kin HELP PAGES Welcome Mat for New Visitors Chathouse® Rules for Our Community How to Chat and Advanced Chat Just the FAQs and Answers Here Contact Us our E-Mail Addresses		Please click on our sponsors' advertisements to help support this free service! Welcome New Visitors! I Want to Jump Right In! Then what are you doing on this page? Go to The Floorplan to select a Public Access Chat Room, enter the Handle and Password of your choice, and start chatting! While anyone may chat in a Public Access Chat, if you want to use our Members Only Chat Rooms you will need to Register first. All persons who use the Chathouse, are responsible for acknowledging and obeying The Chathouse® Rules. Just the Basics, Please... If you decide not to Register you will only be able to use the Public Access Rooms of the Chathouse. Your password and handle will be temporary, and exist only while you are in a room, they will not be saved. If you would like to Register (Registration is Free) you will need a valid E-Mail address to receive your Password. Registered users of the Chathouse may chat in the Members Only Rooms, and use features such as HTML within the Chat Rooms that allow this feature. Finally, you'll notice special features such as "Private Rooms, Telegraph, Search, Family Tree and Message Center." These features are reserved for Chathouse Subscribers. If you would like to become a paying subscriber of the Chathouse, then please visit the Chathouse Corner Store. If not, you can continue to chat and use our other features for free. Okay, How do I Chat? We have had a lot of chatters thank us for hosting and designing such an easy-to-use chat environment. You can go to How To Chat (Basic and Advanced) for full details, or simply read the condensed version here: Use The Floor Plan or Who's in the House to Pick a Room. (See GETTING AROUND IN THE CHATHOUSE® to your left.) On the Entry Page of each Room, there is a space provided for you to enter your Handle (chatting name) and your Password. Click on the "enter" button and the Chat Daemon will announce your entrance to all the Chatters in that room. Type your chat message to the room in the box provided and click the "chat" button. The room page will reload and your message will appear on the screen next to your Handle. In order to continuously keep up with the conversation, you must continually click on the "chat" or "get new messages" button. This will clear your screen of old messages and show you the new messages that are posted. To send a Private Message to another Chatter, scroll down your screen, select the "PM" checkbox next to their Handle, and type your message in the smaller text area box with a "whisper" button. To Ignore a particular Chatter, select the "Ignore" checkbox next to their Handle. You may Ignore Public Messages and/or Private Messages from any number of selected individuals. When you wish to stop chatting in a room, select the "exit forum" button to leave or the "switch rooms" button to go to another room. Tell Me Everything! Whew! That wasn't enough yet?! Okay, see all those wonderful hyperlinks to your left? Here's what they're for: ABOUT CHATHOUSE® FEATURES pages will tell you: What a Feature is or does, Who can use it, How it works, Why you might want to use it, and Where to find it in the Chathouse®. ABOUT CHATHOUSE® MEMBERSHIPS pages explain what you can do as a Non-Registered User, as a Registered Member, or as a Subscribed Member. There are also several levels of Subscriptions available (Charter, Cornerstone, Foundation, Sponsor). GETTING AROUND IN THE CHATHOUSE® pages can be very useful for Navigating over 100 Chat Rooms! Many of our regular chatters will bookmark The Floor Plan or Who's in the House for their favorite floor. The Chathouse®. News will also let you know what's going on. HELP PAGES contain How to Chat (Basic and Advanced), Just the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), Contact Us (E-Mail addresses), this page (Welcome Mat), and... The Chathouse® Rules!
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