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The Sister City Chat Room is designed to be a place where students, parents, teachers, and exchange students can communicate, learn, and share ideas with one another.

This chat room may or may not be moderated by teachers, Joel (the Creator), or other Computer Club members. Any person caught using foul language (the Chat text is stored and can be viewed at anytime by teachers and Computer Club members) will be punished by removal/banishment of his/her account and report of the incident will be made to the Principal if necessary.

• If this is your first time, you will have to sign-up for an account. To sign-up, goto http://www.stapleshigh.net/sister/chatlogin.html and scroll down until you see the red "Sign-Up" form. Input your information and hit the submit button.
• An e-mail will be sent to the address you provided at sign-up. If you have forgotten your username and or password, it will be sent to the e-mail address you signed-up with. There will be no exceptions due to security purposes. :-)

• If you have already signed-up, then you can goto http://www.stapleshigh.net/sister/chatlogin.html and use the blue "Log-In" form to log-in to the chat room by inputting your username and password. (the username and passwords you signed up with)

• Once you are logged-in, you will see 4 boxes (or frames). These frames provide you with the ability to do certain things while in the chat room. I will explain the purpose and function of each frame.
• Let's start with the frame all the way on the left hand side of your screen. This is the nav bar. It is just like all the other nav bars on this site. The nav bar gives you access to all of http://www.stapleshigh.net's sites and pages. The only difference is that while in the chat room, clicking on a button in the nav bar will open that page in NEW window. This is so that you can easily surf the rest of stapleshigh.net without having to interupt your chat session.
• The frame in the middle, the chat frame. This is where you will see live messages being posted as people are chatting. You will see the name of the person who sent the message in red, then a timestamp in blue that shows the time the message was sent, followed by a colon (:), and then their message.
  Example:
  Joel [TIMESTAMP]: Welcome to the Sister City Chat Room!
  You will also see your messages appear as you send them. Remember that this frame will refresh every 5 seconds to keep you up-to-date on the messages being sent.
• All the way on the right you will see the Users Logges-In frame. This frame shows you who is logged on to the Sister City Chat Room. This way you know who you are talking to, and who is no-longer in the room listening to you. Remember, this frame refreshes every 10 seconds to keep you up-to-date on who is currently logged on at the moment.
• Directly under the middle chat frame, you will see a frame which is a light shade of blue, and contains button that can be used during chatting. First, there is a text box, use it to enter your message. Once you are satisfied with what you have wrote, click the button labled "Click Here To Send". Once clicked, your message will be sent and will then pop up in the chat frame above. There is also a button labled "LOG-OUT". When you are done chatting, use this button to leave the chat room. Logging takes your name off the list of users who are logged in to the chat room, and will disable your ability to send messages to the chat room. If you wish to log back in, you must go back to the login page. There is also a button labled "Help". Clicking this button will open up THIS help page in a NEW window. This button may be very usefull to some of you, indeed.

• Users who close the chat program without clicking the Log-Out button will remain seen in the chat room for about 30 seconds. Then they will automatically become logged-out. Once all chatters have looged out, and the chat room goes through 5 minutes of vacancy, all chat messages will be saved in the Chat Archive. Special Archives will be announced. After the chat has been archived, the chat window inside the chat room will be fresh so the next wave of users can enjoy a clean slate without all that blob of text left behind. (not to mention how it helps scrolling time ;-) )

• If you have any Questions, Concerns, or Comments, please feel free to e-mail me, gro.reknuj@leoj. I will be happy to assist you in a timely fashion. And thank you for using the Joel Stevens PHP Chat Program.