AIM Status Indicator
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.
Vu
— February 11, 2004 @ 11:25 pm
Works painlessly - thanks for the great post!
Alex Hennen
— June 2, 2004 @ 11:12 pm
Worked great for me too! thanks!
Eric Pastoor
— August 19, 2004 @ 1:28 pm
Working fine for me too but kinda slow
mmm
— November 17, 2004 @ 3:42 pm
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
Princess
— April 7, 2005 @ 6:00 pm
What about the yahoo! indicator? Don’t hold out
Do you know if you can do the samething with Microsoft messenger as well?
Joshua — April 8, 2005 @ 5:18 am
works great
Philipp
— May 26, 2005 @ 12:42 am
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
Jarno Ristaniemi
— July 2, 2005 @ 3:31 pm
It doesn’t tell me when I’m offline :S
Justin
— February 3, 2006 @ 3:24 pm
get @ me
stephen berry
— July 9, 2006 @ 12:57 pm
i guess its cool.. but i doesnt work for myspace ):
elizabeth
— July 25, 2006 @ 10:16 pm
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!
liss
— September 12, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
make it work for myspace please try to find a way i need this..
myspace needs this!!!!
— September 30, 2008 @ 7:50 pm