Adding an Image to Your Myspace Background

When you're creating a customized Myspace layout, you'll want to pay special attention to your background image. It's often one of the first things a visitor sees when they go to your page, kind of like the front door to your house. You want to make sure that front door is as pleasing and welcoming as possible so the visitor will want to step through it, not scream and flee as fast as they can. No matter what the rest of your profile looks like, is you don't have a well-coordinated background no one will ever see what the rest of it looks like, nor will they care.

As backgrounds come, Myspace is pretty versatile and gives you tons of options. You can find a ready-made background online for free or for pay, or you can take some time and create your own. The latter offers more possibilities, giving you greater control over the details such as tables, position and appearance. Background color will also be important, as it will determine the readability of your text.

Myspace backgrounds are micromanaged through the "edit my profile" section, so you have a great amount of freedom (even moreso if you have advanced knowledge of HTML and Flash.) The default setup will have the background in, well, the background, with tables and text covering it up. For most people this setup is satisfactory, but recently some non-conformists have decided to buck the trend and make the table transparent-thereby letting the background show through the table and become a more prominent feature of the profile. You can hide, emphasize or move tables to accommodate your background, depending how much of it you want your visitors to see.