Adding IM Hyperlinks to a Web Site (Msn,Yahoo,Aim,Google Talk,Skype)

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If you have a site, a forum or a blog and want your users to contact you any time via your site?
Here’s how you do it. You can place links with which your users can contact at any time on MSN, Googletalk, Aim, Yahoo and Skype. Also included other instant messaging commands.

Use the below html codes in your site to add various messenger functions:

Interact via Yahoo messenger

Replace USERNAME with yourID@yahoo.com

<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?USERNAME”>Contact me via yahoo</a>

<a href=”ymsgr:addfriend?USERNAME”>Add me to buddy list</a>

<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?USERNAME&m=YOUR+MESSAGE”>Send me an IM</a>

<a href=”ymsgr:call?USERNAME”>Call Me</a>
If you want your online status shown in the form of images. You can use one of the images in this way :

<a href=”ymsgr:sendIM?USERNAME”><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=USERNAME&m=g&<span style="font-weight:bold;">t=1</span>&l=us" title="Am I online?" /></a>
the <span style="font-weight:bold;">t=1</span> shows the images type. You can change it to 0, 2, 3,4 etc.

Interact via Msn

Replace USERNAME with yourID@hotmail.com

<a href=”msnim:chat?contact=USERNAME”>Chat with me</a>

<a href=”msnim:add?contact=USERNAME”>Add me to your contact list!</a>

<a href=”msnim:voice?contact=USERNAME”>Voice chat with me</a>

<a href=”msnim:video?contact=USERNAME”>Video conversation with me</a>

Interact via Aim

Replace USERNAME with AOL “screenname”

<a href=”aim:goIM?screenname=USERNAME”>Contact me via aim</a>

Open new IM window with a screen name and a message
<a href=”aim:goim?screenname=USERNAME&message=MESSAGE”>Chat in aim</a>

Grabs shared files from a screen name
<a href=”aim:getfile?screenname=USERNAME”>Get Shared Files</a>

Opens a chat room
<a href=”aim:gochat?roomname=CHATROOMNAME”>Go to chat room</a>

Automatically adds screen name to the “Add Buddy” window
<a href=”aim:addbuddy?screenname=USERNAME”>Auto add buddy</a>

Automatically adds screen name and group name to the “Add Buddy” window
<a href=”aim:addbuddy?screenname=USERNAME&groupname=GROUPNAME”>Auto add Screen name and Group name</a>

Interact via GoogleTalk ()

Replace USERNAME with yourID@gmail.com

<a href=”gtalk:chat?jid=USERNAME”>Contact me via Google Talk</a>

<a href=”gtalk:call?jid=USERNAME”>Voice Chat with me</a>

Interact via Skype()

Replace USERNAME with your Skype user ID

<a href=”skype:USERNAME?chat”>Contact me via Skype</a>

<a href=”skype:USERNAME?voicemail”>Leave voicemail</a>

<a href=”skype:USERNAME?userinfo”>View Profile</a>

<a href=”skype:USERNAME?add”>Add 2 Contact List</a>

If you find an error for example while using gtalk in firefox, see this link.