These days just enter "Design MySpace for Me" into Google and you will come up with a myriad of sites offering the sweetest designs but for the ill educated Web User they will most likely have a "Free Kick Ass Mutha-Truckin MySpace Layouts" Banner on the top right of their page linking to the very reason their MySpace sucks.
There are a few tools around to make your MySpace look sweet enough to bite without having to many of those crappy and annoying "Which past Big Brother contestant's toenails are most like yours?" Gadget which you wouldn't have on there unless you were like a person that you adore or think other people do.
So here is my MySpace Designer School
Images
It's called Photobucket and you probably would have contributed to their server load at some point if you use MySpace or frequent blogs. If you wanna put your own images up there you have to register. Once registered you will be assigned a photo album to put all your images into once uploaded. The editing of size and other properties is limited once you upload your image so best do that beforehand.
Uploading is very straight forward. You just browse and locate the image, preferably JPG or GIF but they do allow for a few other formats depending on your needs.
Once your picture is in you photo album you are going to want to click the yellow box next HTML Tag. This will copy the code ready for you to place it where it is needed.
From here it's just a matter of choosing which section you want to place the image. One of the below sections is a good place to start:
About Me | Who I'd Like To Meet | Interests | Music | Movies | Books | Heroes
The html code which will look something like this:
It's just a matter of changing the URL in the brackets after href and the =
If you want no link on your image delete the code above.
Photos in a bucket.
Videos
It's pretty straightforward with Veoh. Register an account and you are on your way. Videos are on the site as soon as you upload them and they look sweet without all that crappy branding that YouTube does. Just embed your video onto MySpace and change the dimensions to suit which part of your page you are on.
Use the Calculator on your computer to do this.
A better uploading experience than YouTube
Music
If you want to entertain your visitors with a radio station of your own making than Finetune is just for you. Just look in the top right of this page to see it in action. The Finetune playlist was made by selecting songs from a generous song catalogue and they play back for you and the world to hear.
You need to select a minimum of 45 songs for each playlist you create and from there the song selection's the limit. I created a few different lists.
I created a personalised playlist to listen to on my desktop with the new Finetune Desktop Beta as well as in my MySpace music section. You can also listen to it on the Wii if you have one. They have a part of their site dedicated to it. You could probably use it on the Playstation 3 come to think of it.
I also created a Film Scores playlist comprising my favourite film scores which is nice to set the mood when you are having dinner or something.
And than I created a playlist based on my favourite radio station's most played songs on rotation hitlist of the moment.
You gotta be creative and good things will happen.
You need to select a minimum of 45 songs for each playlist you create and from there the song selection's the limit. I created a few different lists.
I created a personalised playlist to listen to on my desktop with the new Finetune Desktop Beta as well as in my MySpace music section. You can also listen to it on the Wii if you have one. They have a part of their site dedicated to it. You could probably use it on the Playstation 3 come to think of it.
I also created a Film Scores playlist comprising my favourite film scores which is nice to set the mood when you are having dinner or something.
And than I created a playlist based on my favourite radio station's most played songs on rotation hitlist of the moment.
You gotta be creative and good things will happen.
Tune into yourself today
I hope you were schooled in the finer arts of using other people's ideas and knowledge to make a killer looking MySpace page to show off to all of your friends.
Till next time.
Till next time.
It is most important to make sure to pick out perfectly put together layout.
ReplyDeleteThat way when you add pictures, text, videos, graphics etc. It will all fall in perfectly into place.
Also using videos is nice especially ones of things you like such as dance etc. Slide shows of pictures are a great idea you can make them on phototrail there are cubes, slide shows etc. I love using this because not only does it personalize it it makes it look interesting so people have things to look at!
However make sure it is not packed with things otherwise its messy, and people don't like messy!
-Fiona