Hacking MySpace

As I said a few weeks ago I would make this post, here it is. I plan to go through the general CSS for profile 2.0 for those of you who want to code your own CSS instead of using the Myspace editor.

Customizing your your Myspace profile would be hard without Myspace Resource sites like these out there helping you with premade codes, generators and tutorials.

In this post I plan to discuss if it is worth customizing your profile 2.0 with hand-written CSS or if the Myspace editor covers enough to allow you to customize your profile how you like.

Since the book was published there have been a whole number of changes to the way you need to code for Myspace. The CSS has changed and there are new filters.

Since Myspace seems to have stopped (at least for now) changing their coding structure I thought that an explanation/reference sheet for all the profile 1.0 hide codes would be a great idea - especially for those who actually want to understand the coding behind your profile.

On Myspace I often see people attempting to make CSS “pop ups” and almost 80% of the time people run into trouble with them, so I thought that this week I would take a little time to go over how to make them work properly on Myspace.

On Myspace there are a number of things that it is against their terms of service to hide. I thought that I should probably post an updated “list” of what they are because there have been a few additions since the Hacking Myspace book was published.

It seems that Myspace has recently created a new feature in their profiles similar to that of the BBC homepage where you can move “modules” of information around on the page.