[Christian]

Sorry, that I didn't have time to answer all your questions.

I was (and still am) very busy with music production and releasing the site.

Anyway, the question if it is possible to show an online state has been already cleared at the beginning of the thread:

NO!!!

Therefor Microsoft would have to release a code how to ask for the status at the MSN server, and that will never happen!


To vBPortal:

I don't know this software because we have written our own CMS.
But normally it should be possible to integrate it.
Surely you can create additional boxes in vbportal and there you can add the code from the templates.
That should work.
I know that it works with phpwebsite!