Ensign Steve
02-14-2005, 06:47 AM
I'm trying to help my friend customize her profile on myspace.com. Basically, you can add HTML, DHTML, and CSS (no java) to any of the fields (ie: My Interests, Hobbies, Music I Like, blah blah blah). I have helped her with a few basic tags like paragraph breaks, font size and color, images, and links.
But what we cannot figure out is how some of these people have changed the background color or added a background image, and changed the color of the borders of the table cells. I try putting body tags in any of the fields, and they have no effect. I try looking at the source of the good looking pages, and I can search for the background color or image name and find it in the source, but from the source I can't figure out where in the forms the user had to enter it to get it to work.
If it has anything to do with style sheets, I'm assed out, because I don't know how to do those except to have Word make them for me. But I think that's not the case, because in which field would I define the style, and why doesn't formatting the background work in that field?
Not sure if you have to be a member to look at these pages, but if anyone is a member, or is really, really bored and wants to join up real quick, I'd appreciate the help.
Here is mine, to give you an idea of what the default looks like. You can see I messed around a little bit in "About me" to see what I could do with the font and images.
J.D. (http://profiles.myspace.com/users/18616783)
This one has a black background, with red table borders. It even has music playing, gag me! Notice even how the menu under the ad ("Home | Browse | Search | etc.") matches the color scheme.
C-Note (http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4419451&Mytoken=20050213214727)
Edit: No, one does not have to be a member to view the pages. Yay! I have fixed the links. Oh, but nevermind. Now I see that she used a special myspace editor to do her profile. Neat!
But what we cannot figure out is how some of these people have changed the background color or added a background image, and changed the color of the borders of the table cells. I try putting body tags in any of the fields, and they have no effect. I try looking at the source of the good looking pages, and I can search for the background color or image name and find it in the source, but from the source I can't figure out where in the forms the user had to enter it to get it to work.
If it has anything to do with style sheets, I'm assed out, because I don't know how to do those except to have Word make them for me. But I think that's not the case, because in which field would I define the style, and why doesn't formatting the background work in that field?
Not sure if you have to be a member to look at these pages, but if anyone is a member, or is really, really bored and wants to join up real quick, I'd appreciate the help.
Here is mine, to give you an idea of what the default looks like. You can see I messed around a little bit in "About me" to see what I could do with the font and images.
J.D. (http://profiles.myspace.com/users/18616783)
This one has a black background, with red table borders. It even has music playing, gag me! Notice even how the menu under the ad ("Home | Browse | Search | etc.") matches the color scheme.
C-Note (http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4419451&Mytoken=20050213214727)
Edit: No, one does not have to be a member to view the pages. Yay! I have fixed the links. Oh, but nevermind. Now I see that she used a special myspace editor to do her profile. Neat!