Creating Custom Forum Chat Box: Chapter 1

This article will take you on an interesting journey of creating a custom designed forum chat box using Disqus, without writing a single line of code.

Overview

Do you own a website or a blog and want some cool forum or chat box features for it but you are in dilemma either how to build this feature or it's too difficult to design this functionality for your website? Is it really that difficult?

Chill, relax and think twice or may be thrice, it depends upon you … just kidding. Well this is now a very easy task using DISQUS. So in this article I'll be discussing how easily you can do that without writing a single line of code.

Yeah you read it right, without writing a single line of code (manually). So buckle up guys for this interesting journey because it's smart work. Here we go.

Step 1

First of all visit the official DISQUS website, which is: https://disqus.com/

In this page, you will find a portion something like shown below:



In that portion simply click on "ADD Disqus to Your Site". On clicking this button it will redirect you to another page and in that page you will see a window like that.

That window contains 3 options or I better say functionality options. These are:

• Site Name
• Choose your Unique Disqus URL
• Category
  
  

• Site Name: In this section you need to provide Site name of your website or blog.
  
  
• Choose your Unique Disqus URL: In this second section you need to select a unique Disqus URL, this URL can be your website / blog URL too (Just name, nothing else).
  
  
• Category: Now at last select a category for your website, it can be a tech, business, and so on.

Step 2

Now simply provide all the necessary details as needed for further steps and then click on "Finish Registration".

Image showing the second step order:



Step 3

After clicking the "Finish Registration" option it will redirect you to another page, where you will get a list of all the supported platforms. These platforms are: