"The lights are on... and somebody's home" 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 Cyber Weddings Reserve our Chapel Virtual Celebrations Custom Chat Parties for any Special Occasion 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	. . .	Welcome to the Channel 1® Chathouse™ -- the most popular chat site on the Internet! Please click on our sponsors' advertisements to help support this free service! The Chathouse™ offers over One Hundred Web Chat Rooms and receives well over Two Million Hits Each Day. Anyone, anywhere on the Internet may use our Public Access rooms with absolutely no commitment. Anyone with a valid E-Mail address may become a Registered Member of the Chathouse for FREE! Registered Members may use the Members Only rooms (which allow HTML) and will enjoy Membership Benefits. Registered Members may opt for a Subscription and enjoy our Exclusive Features for Subscribed Members... Welcome New Visitors I Want to Jump Right In! Then what are you doing on this page? Go to Who's in the House or to The Floor Plan to select a Public Access Chat Room, enter Handle and Password of your choice, and start chatting! (If you want to use our Members Only Chat Rooms you will need to Register first.) You should know that in any case, whether you are a Non-Registered User or a Registered Member or a Subscribed Member, you are responsible for acknowledging The Chathouse™ Rules! Just the Basics, Please... If for some insane reason you decide not to Register (for FREE!), you will only be able to use the Public Access Rooms and you will have a temporary Handle and password that you make up each time you enter a room. If you would like to Register -- and Registration is FREE! (all you need is a valid E-Mail address to receive your Password, your E-Mail address is never released to anyone) -- you will be able to chat in over 100 different chat rooms and you will receive Membership Benefits with your Registered Handle. (See ABOUT CHATHOUSE™ MEMBERSHIPS to your left.) If you would like to Subscribe, a variety of Subscriptions are available. As a Subsribed Member you would be able to take advantage of all of our Exclusive Features. (See ABOUT CHATHOUSE™ FEATURES to your left.) 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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