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To display a Skype button that will launch Skype and call or start a chat to a specified Skype address as well as indicate its online or offline status, first configure your Skype application to allow its status be shown online (if it has not already been configured as such). This is done within the Skype application section <b>Tools->Options->Privacy</b>. Tick the checkbox ''Allow my status to be shown on the web'':

The following example will create a button for which a call can be made when clicked on: