We are going to post the link to the chat room on this sticky message until we solve our little problem of installing the Chat button here on the board.

Click HERE to access the chat room

Feel free to schedule chats for your upcoming cruises or just drop in and chat as many of you have been doing all week. (Thanks everyone, for being my guinea pigs)

Here are a few tips for enhancing your chatting pleasure :)

Choose the "color" button at the top of the chat window to select the color of your text.

Right click your mouse on the area where you type your messages. You can choose from various smilies and audio sounds. I am still working on changing the sounds to a nautical theme but I did get all the smilies changed over to a pirate theme today. (Try the titanic button in the smilie list, I don't have any idea what we can use it for but it's so cute!)

Click the "float" button and it will dock the chat on top of another webpage (like our message board) so you can do two things at once.

Coming by next month, the software is being updated and we will have a much nicer looking chat window with loads of new features, such as choosing avitars for ourselves.