Title Instant Messenger Profile
Status Dormant
Start Date 7-2002
End Date 7-2002

Instant Messenger Profile

I wanted to make my AIM profile a little fancier, so I made my own webpage for it. The web page has a menu interface that allows viewers to navigate to subpages and back to the main menu. Other schemes like SubProfile have the same features, but they don't come up as the first screen of a profile. The trick is to copy the html file from the server and use that as your normal profile. Then it appears that you are going back to the main profile, even though you are actually linking to a copy on a server.

Anyone who has a web server can set up a profile like this. The only special information you need is that whenever you want a link to stay in the profile window, you must specify '<a href="..." target="_self">'

I have a simple cgi-based guestbook in my profile.