Many people have asked how I’m able to display my AIM status on my web site. Here’s the code to make it work:
<img border=”0″ align=absmiddle src=”http://big.oscar.aol.com/AIM_ID?on_url= ON_IMAGE&off_url=OFF_IMAGE“>Where:
AIM_ID is your AOL Instant Messenger ID
ON_IMAGE is the “on image” (e.g. http://blahblahblah/on.gif)
OFF_IMAGE is the “off image” (e.g. http://blahblahblah/off.gif)
See it in action here.
Download lame online/offline images here.
thanks. I’m gonna try out the online indicator now.
Works painlessly – thanks for the great post!
Worked great for me too! thanks!
Working fine for me too but kinda slow
Well, apparently I do not know what I am doing! It won’t work for me. I am trying to change the source of where it is pulling from. I am trying to use hometown.aol.com. Does it not work with AOL? Please let me know.
Thanks
What about the yahoo! indicator? Don’t hold out 🙂 Do you know if you can do the samething with Microsoft messenger as well?
works great
Hi there! I want to tell you guys that I have made something similar. My script checks the status and shows it in your site. Basically, it will print that X is currently offline/online. I hope it will be useful for you. More: http://www.muumilaakso.fi/~jristani/wordpress/?p=18
It doesn’t tell me when I’m offline :S
get @ me
i guess its cool.. but i doesnt work for myspace ):
the code doesn’t work for myspace because myspace uses a wannabe shorthand HTML.
but this code will work, i have it on my page.
just search for “online now” icons, and find matching, or just ones you like for online and offline. and like it says above replace the text AFTER “on_url” and “off_url” with the url of the icon you prefer. you can make a url with tinypic.
the code i posted, is the exact code i have on my profile, so the indicator icons are a little cute, but if you’d like to just take the code and go, woot!
make it work for myspace please try to find a way i need this..
That’s cool. I had ones for ICQ and Skype, but wanted AIM as well.
AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down on December 15th