I want to create a chat room using HTML5 web sockets, but am pretty lost. From what I can tell, the following is required:

1. A browser that supports web sockets (Chrome, Safari)
2. Some kind of server-side scripting
3. Some kind of client-side scripting

I've got #1 down :) but #2 is seriously tripping me up. Beyond amateur PHP work (generally within the context of Drupal), I have pretty much no experience coding on the server-side of things. I tend to code a lot in Javascript, and have read fantastic things about node.js. So I thought I'd try using it to play around with web sockets.

I've installed node.js to my Mac Leopard machine (it installs to Home > node), but I really have no idea where to go from there. The node.js website provides a "Hello World" example, which I've tried (I put the code into an example.js file, and saved that in the root of the "node" folder), but I only get the following response in Terminal:

> 
> *Server running at <http://127.0.0.1:8124/>*
> 
> 
> 

I would LOVE a node.js and web sockets for dummies kind of thing. Thanks for any help that can be provided.