MySpace Layout Tutorial for Beginners

You may be new to web design or just new to MySpace in general. Are you sick of the plain white, boring default page of your MySpace profile? Here is a very basic tutorial on how to spiff up your page - from basic coding to some more in-depth details - whether you just want to add some extra color here and there, or go all out with an entirely new layout.

Basic CSS Coding in MySpace

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the type of coding that makes it possible to customize your profile. If you know nothing about it, below are some basic code examples and information on how to use them that can change the look of your page.

Normally, all your CSS code goes in the "About Me" section of your "Edit Profile". But you need to make sure the code is inside the <STYLE></STYLE> tags. When using CSS, open the code with <STYLE> . After that, you can add any of the below codes. When you're finished, be sure to wrap it up with the ending </STYLE> tag. Otherwise the code will be broken and won't work.

For example:

<style>

table table table td {background-color: 000000; color: FFFFFF; }

.text { font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: FFFFFF }

</style>


- Changing the Main Table Color and Text

The "background-color" is just what it means. The "color" part of the code is the color of the text.
Most likely you will have to use a hexadecimal color code for this. For instance, if you
want to use the color white, the code would be #FFFFFF . Black, on the other hand, is #000000 .
Just about every color you can think of has its own hexadecimal code on the web. However, in
CSS, the color code would normally be written without the "#" sign.

EXAMPLE: table table table td {background-color: 000000; color: FFFFFF; }

- Changing a Font

Use the code below - except after "font-family", put the name of the font you want to use, followed
by either the word "serif" (font with feet) or "sans-serif" (font without feet).

EXAMPLE: .text { font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: FFFFFF; }

- Changing the Link Color