Shoutbox

a.k.a. the Forum's Personal Chat Room

First Draft

The Shoutbox is accessed by the forum's front page, that's the page you reach when you click the 'forum' tab on the top or the 'forum' tag on the forum index on the home page, the first page not the board pages, or the threads, the front page. If you go to the bottom of the page you can see the 'Shoutbox' the small chat-room that's afforded the Forum. (I'm considering some kind of IRC plug-in chatroom set-up in the browser through a tab, eventually... but for now this is what we get. It's better then nothing, so don't complain.) At the bottom of the shout-box is another little box in which to type out a response/reply, right now the forum's shout box is set-up so even guests and lurkers can join in and chat and you aren't required to be a member of the forum.

The Shout box's main purpose more so then providing the forum with a easy way to chat with each other, is to serve as a way for guests and lurkers to communicate with members and staff, questions about things they don't understand, etc.