Pump Up your Profile with Different Tweaks
We’ve all longed to be the popular kid—the one everyone wanted to hang out with, the one with the cool looks, the one with all the friends. If you are still trying to connect with everyone, MySpace may be the place for you. The website is a place to network socially: a place to meet new friends and share with old ones. Your MySpace profile is the virtual equivalent of your face—it’s what everyone sees and uses to get to know you. For this reason, you may want to pump up your profile with different tweaks.
Your MySpace profile consists of a number of different sections. Your profile will start with two standard “blurbs.” One is titled “About Me” and the other is called “Who I’d Like to Meet.” There is also a section for you to write about or list your interests as well as specific details about you. You need not fill in all of these sections; any fields that you do not fill in will not be displayed. Your profile will also contain a “blog.” In your blog, you will find default fields for content, emotion, and media. Here, you can also upload photographs. You will choose one of your photos to be your default image, which will appear on your profile’s main page, the site’s search page, and next to your name on comments you make and messages you send. You can also upload video to your profile.
Once you’ve set up your personal profile, your next step is to spend some time on your Friend Space. Your Friend Space contains a count of your friends, a special “Top Friends” section, and a link to view all of your friends. You can choose to display a certain number of friends on your own profile, in the Top Friends area. You can choose to display 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 or 24 friends in your Top Friends area.
Below your Friend Space, you will find a Comments section. Here, your friends can leave comments for all MySpace viewers to read. You have the ability to delete any comments posted to your Comments section, or you may opt to approve all comments before they are posted to your profile.
You can also personalize your personal profile if you know how to use HTML/XTML or CSS (programming languages used to create web pages). Just about anything on the profile page can be modified. You can also add embedded music to your profile using MySpace Music, a service that many bands use to post their songs onto their profiles. Video and other flash-based media can also be added. If you don’t know how to write code in HTML/XTML or CSS, a number of websites are available to do it for you.
Some features are very easy to change using HTML, even if you don’t know much about programming. Adding color, graphics, and sound to your profile page are some of the easy things you can do. All you need to do is go to Edit Profile and enter the desired HTML code. If you aren’t sure what HTML code to add, find a friend who has color, graphics, or sound or his or her profile and ask how he or she put it there. You’re bound to get an answer and potentially make a new friend!
You can also use MySpace Editor for help tweaking your profile. The editor allows you to easily add colors, backgrounds, and images. It was created specifically for people who aren’t familiar with HTML and is a perfect way to get started in your quest to pump up your profile.
