The majority of websites on the Internet do not have background music. This may lead many novice MySpace members to believe adding music to the background is a difficult process but it really isn’t. In fact MySpace makes it incredibly simple for members to add music to their profiles. The steps to add music to a MySpace profile are as follows:
* Log into your MySpace account
* While logged in visit this web address: http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music
* Listen to the music available and select a suitable song for your profile
* Click on the link that says “Add” below the song title
* The music is then automatically added to your profile
It is important to note that users can only add one song at a time to their profile. Clicking the “Add” link on a second song will result in the original song being replaced on the profile by the new song. Songs can be removed from a profile at any time by going to the “Edit profile” section of your account and entering the “Profile songs” subcategory. Here you have the option to remove your chosen song.
Adding Videos to MySpace
Adding videos to MySpace is also not as difficult as it seems. Even those with no HTML skills can add videos produced by other members or even their own videos to their MySpace profile. The steps to add a video to your MySpace profile are as follows:
* Log into your MySpace Account
* From your MySpace homepage, click on the “Add/Change Videos” link
* You are then taken to another webpage where you can either search through a database of previously uploaded videos or upload your own video
* To search the database, click on the search videos button and browse through the available videos
* After watching a video you can add the video to your profile in a couple of ways. First you can click on the “Add to my profile” button or you can copy the source code provided and paste this code into the desired location on your profile.
Alternately you can add your own videos to your MySpace profile by first uploading them to MySpace and then adding them to your profile. When uploading a video care should be taken to ensure the video does not violate the terms of service.
Creating Interactive Features on MySpace
Creating interactive features on MySpace is a bit more involved. Members can create features which allow visitor interaction but these features require more extensive HTML knowledge. The best way to acquire the information necessary to design these types of features is to research the subject of HTML code in books or on the Internet. However, if you find a feature on another MySpace website you would like to include in your own profile you can contact the member and ask them how to add this feature.
Knowledge of some basic html coding is a very useful tool for bloggers. Web design programs are fine if you like to use them, but may prove somewhat tricky when trying to adapt code to paste into a layout or post. With a bit of html, you can easily transform your blog into something unique, interesting, and even easier to use. So here’s a quick guide to HTML code and links to useful sites where you can find out more:
Formatting:
Most blog clients have a formatting feature built in to the post editor. But if you want to
align text in the navbar for instance, you will have to do this yourself.
To create a paragraph (with spaces automatically inserted between paragraphs), you would
insert the following code:
< p > Your paragraph of text here < /p >
By default, text is aligned within a paragraph to the left. The code for this is as follows:
< p align=”left” > Your paragraph of text here < /p >
To align text to the right hand side of the page, you would add code like this:
< p align=”right” > Your paragraph of text here < /p >
And to centralise:
< p align=”center” > Your paragraph of text here < /p >
You can also use this simpler code to centralise text, images, tables, etc:
< center > Text/image/table/etc here < /center >
To insert a line break (no paragraph space), use this:
< /br >
Line breaks can be useful if you don’t want text to be beneath an image instead of following
on at the side.
Horizontal rules can also be useful in design. You can insert a simple horizontal rule across the available space in the page like this:
< /hr >
Which looks like this:
To make the horizontal rule span only half of the page, try this instead:
< hr width=”50%” >
You could align it to the centre of the page:
< center > < hr width=”50%” > < /center >
And you can even change the colour and thickness!
< hr width=”50%” color=”ff0000″ size=”10″ >
HTML code for a page link:
Basic links are simple, and usually appear as a feature in blogging platforms. However, there are some interesting features you can use with links, such as linking to different areas of the same page (or different areas of another page entirely!).
The basic html code for a page link is as follows:
< a href=”pagename.html” > Your link text here < a >
You can change the link text to anything you want, such as My Link, or LOOK HERE!.
Let’s suppose you want to link to a different part of the page. Here is where “anchors” come in handy…
You can create an anchor to the top of a page as follows:
At the top of your page, insert this code: < a name=”#top” >
Then wherever you want to provide a link to the top of your page, use something like this:
< a href=”#top” > Back to top < /a >
Save your work and try the link out: you should be taken to the top of the page. You can change these values to link to different areas of a page (as you may have already noticed in this post). Be careful to always insert the “#” symbol and to end the link with < /a >
otherwise you may find the whole page is linked!
If you want to link to another page which includes anchor links as part of the make-up, use something like this:
< a href=”yoursite.htm#top” which will link to the top of the page called “yoursite.htm”
You can input links to email addresses in order for readers to send you an email directly from your blog or site. Rather than using the “http” address, you would use “mailto:your@address.com” like this:
< a href=”mailto:your@address.com > Your email link < /a >
Changing font styles:
You can change the style and color of the font appearing on your blog. To make text bold or italic, use the following codes:
< b > Bold Text < /b >
< I > Italic Text < /i >
To change the color of text, use the following code:
< font color=”red” > Red Text < /font >
You can change “red” to any other colour, such as purple, yellow, blue, green.
Alternatively, you can use hex colours as I will describe below.
Colours:
You can use almost any colour in the spectrum to make your fonts, backgrounds, tables etc.
more colourful. To do this, you will need to enter the hex code for the colour and implement as follows:
< font color=”ffcc00″ > Your font colour < /font >
This inserts golden yellow text, but you can use any colour you wish. Hex colours are comprised of six digits which include the numbers 0-9 and A-F. Black, for example is “000000″ and white would be “ffffff” For a complete list of web colour codes, try Cedges Colour Code applet, which is great for previewing colours too!
