| The recent emergence of thousands of MySpace | | | | sites. |
| layout websites has made it incredibly hard to wade | | | | CONS: |
| through all the good and the bad layouts to figure out | | | | - doesn't have pop-ups but they do have huge ads |
| which layout sites are worthwhile. | | | | right at the top middle of their pages which I dislike. It |
| MySpace users on the endless search for good | | | | clutters up the site too much. |
| layouts will probably end up with a computer virus or | | | | - Layouts are almost all illustrations. There aren't many |
| two on the way, but will definitely end up with a | | | | layouts for bands or celebrities, but if you like |
| multitude of pop-ups and annoying ad schemes as | | | | illustrations of animated gif layouts then you will have |
| they wade through the mess of layout sites that are | | | | plenty to choose from. |
| trying to make a quick buck off advertising. | | | | is my #3 pick because they don't have pop-ups and |
| It drives me crazy to see the horrible MySpace layout | | | | the designers are really talented illustrators with clean |
| websites that people across the web are suggesting | | | | layouts. I'd really like to see sites like these with |
| to each other in online communities. Websites full of | | | | awesome designers get ahead instead of all the |
| pop-ups, websites that often leave us with viruses, | | | | insanely popular sites with horrible designs. |
| websites that are filled with badly designed layouts are | | | | How to Avoid the BAD Layout Sites on the web: |
| getting the most traffic and it's downright bizarre. Why | | | | - Stay Away from User Submission Layout Sites: |
| doesn't anyone realize how bad these sites are? After | | | | Most sites with User Submitted content will have |
| searching for several years I've come up with a pretty | | | | 10,000 to 20,000 layouts, so if you are into spending 10 |
| good list of the best and the worst layout sites. If you | | | | hours wading through tons of user submitted bad |
| are a MySpace addict or a layout lover, you will want | | | | layouts, have at it! These sites tend to have 1 good |
| to read this. | | | | layout for every 200 bad ones so it's not worth the |
| Best MySpace Layout Sites: | | | | time to go through them. When a site provides user |
| #1 - PROFILErehab | | | | submitted layouts it means that anyone can submit a |
| PROS: | | | | layout, designer or not. This is probably fun for some |
| - Has no pop-ups and few ads. | | | | people but it attracts a lot of bad layout designs. |
| - Site has a clean design and is easy to navigate. Has | | | | - Stay Away from Badly Designed Layout Websites: |
| really good quality and unique layouts. | | | | Any layout site with a really bad design for it's own |
| - Has layouts for guys and girls and layouts for teens | | | | site can't possibly have a lot of good layouts. If they |
| and adults. | | | | had great layouts, their own website would look good. |
| - Has creative layouts including unique 2.0 layouts with | | | | - Stay Away from Layout Sites with Too Many Ads: |
| frames around the default picture. | | | | Sites with huge ads on the pages right in the middle of |
| - Provides original layouts and not copies from other | | | | the page, video ads that won't quit playing, and/or page |
| sites. | | | | changing ads where it changes you to a full page ad |
| CONS: | | | | and tells you to wait 30 seconds before it will let you |
| Their site is fairly new so they have less layouts than | | | | go back to browsing their site...All not worth the hassle. |
| sites that have been around longer. Although, this may | | | | No thanks. Any site with a long term goal of providing |
| be a plus for some people because layout sites with | | | | good content to keep their users around will not need |
| 20,000 layouts can be very overwhelming. And as we | | | | to have pop-ups. Look at the biggest websites online: |
| all know, Quality over quantity is always better. | | | | Yahoo, Google, MSN, MTV, Perez Hilton, HULU, etc. |
| PROFILErehab takes my #1 spot because it is so | | | | None of these sites have pop-ups for a reason. |
| incredibly hard to find layout sites that don't have | | | | Pop-ups aren't user friendly and all the extra ads make |
| pop-ups, and then to find one without pop-ups and with | | | | a site look annoying and suspicious. |
| nicely designed layouts is even more rare. | | | | - Stay Away from Layout Sites that all have the |
| #2 - MySpaceOrYours | | | | Same Layouts: A lot of layout sites have exact copies |
| PROS: | | | | of other sites layouts. I don't know who copies who, or |
| - Has really clean, pretty layouts. | | | | if these sites have permission to do this, but I sure do |
| - Has a lot of animated gif layouts with unique designs. | | | | not want to wade through the same designs on |
| - Provides original layouts and not copies from other | | | | several sites. Especially the same bad designs. |
| sites. | | | | - The Worst Layout Sites: There are so many bad |
| CONS: | | | | layout sites, I couldn't possibly name them all, but if you |
| - Has pop-ups, but the ads on their pages aren't too | | | | read the above warnings you can quickly spot them |
| annoying and invasive like some other websites. | | | | as you browse the web. If you go to a layout site and |
| - Layouts are geared mostly towards women and | | | | it's covered with huge ads, video ads, page changing |
| mothers (which is great if you are a woman, but not if | | | | ads, with a bad website design and horrible layouts, |
| you are guy). | | | | just run the other way fast. It's not worth the |
| MySpaceOrYours.net takes the #2 spot because the | | | | spyware(read: virus) you will end up with on your |
| owners are really good layout designers and have a | | | | computer and it's not worth wasting your time. As I |
| lot of unique, quality layouts. | | | | said before, any good layout website that wants to do |
| #3 - TopBun | | | | well and make their users happy does not need all that |
| PROS: | | | | junk on their site. |
| - Has many cool illustration layouts. | | | | Good luck on your MySpace layout search, I hope this |
| - Has cool animated gif layouts. | | | | article has saved you some time searching for the |
| - Provides original layouts and not copies from other | | | | best quality layout sites. |