| I have one theory as to the popularity of Myspace. I | | | | profile. Choose "edit profile" and you will be taken to |
| believe the chief attraction is the user-friendly method | | | | the main profile editing screen. Here you can tell the |
| in which ordinary folks can enjoy the thrill of becoming | | | | world about yourself. More importantly, this is where |
| a graphic designer (when it comes to putting their | | | | you can paste the html codes that you copied from a |
| profile together). Even my parents could probably | | | | resource site to customize the look of your profile. To |
| figure out how to make a snazzy background and | | | | get the best effects, you should combine a |
| splash it up with some glitter graphics. A website | | | | background with a "layout generator," or just go with a |
| designer would need to at least learn a little bit about | | | | complete ready-made layout. The general consensus |
| html coding, whereas a complete newbie can probably | | | | is that your background and/or layout graphics codes |
| design a Myspace profile that would compete with the | | | | should be pasted into your "about me" section, after |
| best of them. | | | | whatever text you want to type in that is "about you." |
| This is largely due to the existence of free Myspace | | | | But any of these fields will take html code and display |
| resource sites. These are all over the web; just | | | | the intended image. So you can paste photos, images, |
| Google something like "Myspace graphics" and you will | | | | animated gifs, and the like into any of these sections. |
| have pages of them to choose from. What these | | | | For example, you can paste an animated gif image of |
| Myspace resource sites typically provide are graphics | | | | superman flying in the "Heros" field. The only other |
| for designing profiles, presented in an easy "copy and | | | | section you really need to mess with is the "basic info" |
| paste" format. (The better ones provide simple | | | | link on the submenu at the top. This will take you to a |
| instructions for those of us who have no idea what | | | | list of fields where you can type the personal |
| "code" even refers to.) | | | | information that you want people to see about you, |
| OK, so you want to see what all the fuss is about and | | | | which will appear next to your photo. This includes age, |
| give Myspace a test drive. The first thing you need to | | | | gender, city and state, and other optional fields such as |
| do is open an account. To do this you need to provide | | | | smoker, drinker, and body type. (The basic info |
| an email account and choose a password. That's it, | | | | questions will not accept html code.) |
| you're in the door. | | | | Keep in mind that when you click back to your "home" |
| The next thing you should do is upload a picture of | | | | page, that is not your profile page. Meaning, this is more |
| yourself. It doesn't have to be your latest photo; your | | | | of a control panel page where you can navigate to |
| high school senior picture will do just fine. Or a picture | | | | different functions such as accepting friend requests |
| of anything you want. I saw one of Jack in the Box | | | | and sending messages. If you want to see the actual |
| once. (I wonder if that was really Jack?) | | | | results of your profile editing, that is, your actual profile |
| Now you can move forward to your empty, "blank" | | | | that everyone else will see, simply click on "profile. |