THANKS TO SCRIBBLES79 FOR THE FOLLOWING HINTS/TIPS FOR MYSPACE

Okay, so here's MySpace 101 for starting your page, placing banners, making line breaks, and centering pictures.

GETTING STARTED
This program is very easy to help you get your page set up. It makes it easy to put in a background picture, too. Create the picture the way you want it to look in photoshop. If you want to use more than one picture, combine them in photoshop to make them into one image. There's a space to upload your image, and it repeats the image or places it where you want it on the page. You can also create a slideshow from there. Here's the link: http://myspace.nuclearcentury.com/profileeditor.php

BANNERS
Here's the code for a banner I did for LhFC:

<br>
</br>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.lovehammersfanclub.com" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.lovehammersfanclub.com/lhfanclub/images
/myspace/lhshoes.jpg"
</a></div>
<br>
</br>

You can use this as a template. First, change the url to the link you want. So for this one you'd change it from lovehammersfanclub.com to lovehammers.com, or wherever you want it to link to. Next, change the bottom url to your image location (photobucket or wherever you store your photos).

Once you put this in place and save it, MySpace does this goofy thing that changes some of the code. So when you go back to find it later, it's got gobblety gook instead of your link. The code above ends up looking like this:

<div align="center"><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmxvdmVo
YW1tZXJzZmFuY2x1Yi5jb20=" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.lovehammersfanclub.com/lhfanclub/images/
myspace/lhshoes.jpg"</a></div>

If you don't want the banner to be linked anywhere, delete the first part of the code. A non-linked banner code looks like this:

<div align="center">
<img src="http://www.lovehammersfanclub.com/lhfanclub/images/
myspace/lhshoes.jpg"</a></div>



LINE BREAKS
This code <br> is a line break. You won't always need them, but I like to put a couple in between items to space them out. It also helps to keep everything from running together when you go in to make changes later. Put this code </br> as the final one to activate the line break. Just putting extra returns does NOT make line breaks on your page.


CENTERING AN IMAGE
This <div align="center"> centers the image. Flush left is the default, so just leave this code off if you want it flush left. To end the code use this: </div>


MISC.
Remember as you're working that generally if you start a code, you have to have an ending for it, which is the same code with / at the beginning of it. If you center something and forget to end it, everything following will be centered, which you might not want.

As you create your page, frequently save the codes you use into a text file or Word document. That way, if you screw up, you can just cut and paste and start over.

Hope this helps! Please add your own tips as you think of them. I might need them!


More from Scribbles

This is for the Extended Network box at the top of the right hand column. You can replace the default text with a graphic. Make sure your graphic is the correct width (460 pixels), and you can adjust the height in the code to fit. Here's the code:

<style>table table table td {vertical-align:top ! important;}span.blacktext12 {visibility:visible !important; background-color:transparent;background-image:url("http://ww
w.lovehammersfanclub.com/lhfanclub/images/myspace/carolina/Lh
Banner460x134Final.jpg");background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;width:460px; height:134px; display:block !important;font-size:0.0em; letter-spacing:-5px;}span.blacktext12 span,span.blacktext12 img {display:none;}</style>


Replace the url in green with the url for your graphic. Then change the height (also in green) to match the height of your graphic. Place this at the top of your "About Me" section on the edit page.--->