A super easy way to do chat
Create an account at http://www.coveritlive.com/
The site will give you a one-line strip of code (an iframe) that you can place into a template. I used the content_top page element for insertion.
Depending on the dimensions of your main content rail, you’ll need to adjust the size of the iframe (pretty easy to do).
During our redesign, we anticipated needing both a wide-open section front and story level template. So, we have 990 pixels to work with in what we call the “no rail” template.
Placeholder page is here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/chat/ if you wanna see.