Re: MySpace headaches... - experience?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I would be glad if I could only change some stylesheets in
>> MySpace...
>> I have looked everywhere and it's strange. I get the same settings both 
>in
>> Customize/Edit Profile (Band Info..). I once had "Page Templates" but 
>was
>> never able to get back there.
>>
>> So _where_ on earth can I really customize my MySpace page?? I'm well
>> familiar with HTML coding - I just don't see an entry point??


When I tweaked http://www.myspace.com/perboysen I started by going to
some of the tweak-your-myspce-page sites. I think it wash Thomas
MySpace Editor, but don't take that for granted. Anyway, at
MySpace-Editor page you typically type into boxes what you want
regarding background color, style sheet stuff and transparency. Then I
pasted the generated code into a text editor and compared it to normal
html. There are some differences, for example where the normal html
goes <br> the MySpace code goes <br/>. Same with the <hr> tag and
probably a lot more. So I simply changed the code I got at the editro
to suite the design I was after. It's as easy as this:

1. Save a backup.
2. Paste the generated code into MySpace.
3. Save.
4. Check out what it did to your MySpace page.
5. Go back into MySpace Edit mode and tweak the code to adjust the design.

Not something you wrap up during a coffee break, but you just have to
do it once.

In the past I have been constructing dynamic web sites with admin
interfaces for companies, using PHP, and I just found out that today's
WordPress templates are completely free and basically the same stuff
that I was paid pretty well to set up a couple of years ago. That's
wonderful to see, both for the sake of democracy but also for setting
a good D-I-Y headroom for upcoming artists so they can sidestep the
establishment and keep amazing us all! Yay - lovely isn't it :-))

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com