How to Create a Chatroom or a Quiz in Your Blog

Blog is now one of the most popular tools to communicate and make friends. If you have a blog, it would be a great idea to put in your blog a Chat room, a poll or a quiz. You can attract more visitors to your blog.

1. Creating a Chat Room

Yahoo! 360 is one of the best pages to write your blog. In Yahoo!360, your friends can add a quick comment to your blog. However, this requires him to log in. To make it easier, you should make a chat room. So that everybody can post as much comment in as they want or meet each other right inside the chat room.

More and more bloggers use the website xat.com to make their blogs more attractive. With xat.com's tool, you can add a chat room in your blog for your friends.

Go to xat.com and click chat to start the process. You can choose a default picture or load a picture from your computer to become your wallpaper. After selecting your desired image, you can click "Update & Get Code" to have new updated features.

Extra Chat Box Feature and Lobby Feature are the two functions that act like the public chat room of xat.com. When these features are on, people who are in your chat room will be connected to other people using xat.com's public chat room. In Status Button, bloggers can copy this code and paste into a forum or comment of your friends' blogs in order to show your network status and to invite your friend to your chat room.

After everything is done, click Update & Get Code to finish designing your chat room. You have to copy the HTML code and put it in one of your entry to have a perfect chat room with many different avatars and smileys. Chatters can click on nickname to change his or her nickname and avatar.

2. Creating a poll or a quiz:

Besides chat room, xat.com also provide tool to create poll and quiz for your blog. In quiz section, you can choose the number of questions for your quiz. Then, type in all of the questions and answers. With the answers, the first line is for the right answers; the rest is for wrong answer. In poll section, you choose randomly your answer from 2 two 12 and type in all of the answer to the tables.

Similar as chat room, you can choose wallpaper for quizzes and polls. You have to copy and paste the provided HTML code to your blog. After your blog readers finish with the quiz or poll, he will receive the result immediately. The result will come out as 3D graph, which shows the percentage of people who have the same answers and the percentage of people with the right answers.

Creating a chat room, a quiz and a poll in your blog will make readers more interesting. That also will attract the readers to come back to your blogs. I hope you will be successful to create your own chat room, quiz or poll with my method.