Hacking MySpace

This is a template that a friend has created as a foundation for creating a Myspace div layout. His intention was not to create a template that people can use straight off the bat (although you still can) but rather to create something that designers can change the layout by copying and pasting with minor edits to the CSS.

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.

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 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.

As I looked pretty closely at the profile 1.0 editor in a previous post I thought that it would be a pretty good idea to finally have a look at the new profile 2.0 editor.

Over the past week or so I have been asked by quite a few people how the new profile 2.0 has increased privacy/security settings and how to set them up. This is something that can benefit a lot of people by me explaining it, so I decided I would today.

A lot of people in the past week have asked me how to change to the new profile 2.0 version and some have asked me how to change back from the profile 2.0 to profile 1.0 again. I thought that it would be a good idea to explain how to do both in a post here, it’ll help people who view this blog regularly and also gives me a link to point people who ask me about it to.

Myspace have recently re-vamped their old profile look into a clean, customizable, “web 2.0″ style in their efforts to keep the website’s modern, hip kind of feel to attract more of their biggest market (teenagers).