Browsing through MySpace, you can run across some amazing profile pages that will keep you mesmerized for hours. No two are just alike. You will wonder, “How did they do that?” and therein lies the puzzling part of the web site for a newbie. You’re seeing all of these neat things – slideshows, flash games, videos, glitter and animated graphics and funny images, widgets such as music players, scrolling LED signs, live webcam broadcasts, the seemingly unlimited number of graphic comments to add to your friend’s profiles, and a whole lot more. Want to know how you too can have one of these cool profile pages? Read on for a review of the Top Ten MySpace Hacks!
#1
Tops in every MySpace user’s arsenal are MySpace layouts. These hacks are popular in part simply because of the sheer number of them. These layouts can be found paired with other matching profile items such as contact tables, dividers, cursors, icons and images that all blend together to create a theme.
Layouts are the structure of your profile. They set the stage for everything else you do to the page. It is a fairly simple matter to find a layout or theme on any subject you choose, simply by doing a web search. There are premade layouts, and also hacks that allow you to use your own HTML code to truly customize your page by tweaking the default layout everyone starts with when they first sign up.
Another great hack is the MySpace layout generator that lets you create a personalized layout using any MySpace background you like, then shifting around the other basic profile sections such as “About Me” and “Who I’d Like To Meet” to suit you. Or, when you run across someone else’s layout that seems perfect for you, use a layout snatcher to swipe the html code, which you can then add to your profile editor, making the layout your own. You can also find layouts for your MySpace blog.
One you have your layout or theme in place, what’s next?
#2
Flash Toys are useful and fun items to add to your profile. You can choose from –
• Clocks – both digital and analog, fully customizable.
• Weather Stations – See the time and temperature in any city.
• Magic 8 Balls like the ones we all played with as kids.
• Fortune Cookies – Just like your favorite Chinese restaurant, but better!
• Bible Verses – a random verse each time you click.
• Fridge Magnets – Your friends can leave you a quick message with virtual magnets.
• Custom Countdowns – Let everyone know how long until the next important event in your life, be it a vacation, wedding, or whatever.
• Guest Maps – Visitors to your profile can place a virtual thumbtack by their city and leave you a brief message with this toy.
• Birthday Gifts – Your MySpace friends can leave you virtual gifts to tear open each day as you watch the countdown to your birthday.
• Christmas Tree – Jazz up your profile during the holidays with a tree that allows your friends to place virtual gifts beneath it, including a brand new ride or a lump of coal if you’ve been bad.
• Virtual Pets are hot additions to your profile. You can choose from bunnies, kittens, puppies, ducks, fish, penguins and more.
• Post –It Notes – a neat way for friends to leave you messages!
• Lava Lamp – Choose your own colors for this psychedelic toy. Groovy, man!
• Etch-A-Sketch – Lets your friends draw and design to their heart’s content.
• Draw On Me – Speaking of drawing, with this toy you can upload a photo of anyone and let your friends draw on it.
There are many more cool flash toys, all searchable via your favorite search engine.
#3
Games are a popular addition to MySpace profiles. There are many old school video games and other arcade style games available for you to add by pasting in the html code. Titles include -
• Pac Man
• Super Mario Brothers 1, 2, & 3
• The Legend of Zelda
• Donkey Kong
• The Apprentice
• Tetris
• Mah Jongg
And a whole lot more! Simply make use of Google or a similar search engine to find your favorites.
#4
Everyone enjoys music. Add an online radio station to your profile. Your visitors will never hear the same song twice! Create your own playlist of songs, custom design a music player from a list of colors and options, and add this popular hack to your profile. Or, add a jukebox style player like the ones you see on the profiles of your favorite bands. Again, a simple web search will ferret these hacks out for you easily.
#5
Almost everyone adds personal photos to their profile page. You can add photos by first grabbing a free photo hosting account, which gives you a place to store photos online. Once they are uploaded, you will be provided with html codes used to embed your choice into your profile. Another favorite way to showcase photos is a customizable slideshow viewer. You can really dress up these viewers by adding music and themes to make them truly personalized. For the ultimate in photo fun you can also make talking avatars and animated stickers from your own photo. You can add photos from your camera phone into a widget called a PictoBrowser which will display your images in a custom fashion which you can tailor to suit yourself. You can add captions to each shot and arrange them in any way you desire.
Funny photos are all the rage on MySpace. You can find an extensive selection by doing a search for “MySpace graphics”. These range from rolling on the floor laughing funny to slightly titillating funny! Photos of animals, people, and places doing almost everything imaginable that is in good taste - and a lot that is in bad taste – abound. These photos are popular for leaving on your MySpace friend’s pages to make a statement… or just induce a good laugh.
#6
Graphics and animations are hugely popular with MySpace users, and for good reason. There are tons of styles and varieties to choose from. Graphics and animations are mainly used as comments to leave for friends, but can also be placed anywhere on your profile page to dress it up. You can choose from -
• Glitter graphics
• Animated graphics – from cartoon characters to your favorite band, you can find almost anything imaginable in an animated graphics!
• Graphic Makers to create custom graphics – you choose the words, colors, and font styles.
• Sayings and Quotes graphics.
• Graphic Tags
• Flags
• Dolls
• Icons
• Fireworks
• Animated Icons
• Glitter Icons
• Animated Banners
• Network Banners
• Photo Collages
• Animated gifs
And so much more! To find graphics and animations for MySpace, turn to a popular search engine for assistance.
#7
Videos for MySpace profile pages are very much in demand, and again, you have quite a few choices. MySpace has its own video section of both current and classic videos for your viewing pleasure that can be easily added to your profile page with the click of your mouse. MySpace TV is another section of the web site where you can find episodes of television shows as well as video shorts on animals, sports, music, games, and film.
Youtube alone offers millions of videos ranging from music videos to comedy, and everything in between that you can embed into your profile using the supplied code. The FOX television network supplies episodes of some of their popular primetime shows that you can imbed into your profile. Do you enjoy taking videos with your camera phone? Several web sites exist which allow you to upload these to your profile page as a widget. There are even web sites which allow you to add entire movies to your profile page. Do a little research and discover all of the video options available to you to spice up your profile and make it reflect your personality.
#8
Although MySpace has built in communication with its own email and message sections as well as a separate instant message service, there are many hacks that allow for lots more creativity in corresponding with your online friends. One super fun hack will let friends place mp3 voice comments in the Comments section of your profile. How about live video chat? This neat hack will allow you to have a video chat with anyone who visits your profile. One widget will let friends place mp3 voice comments in the Comments section of your profile. You can choose from prerecorded messages, or mix your own. You can send private messages from your MySpace to any cell phone for free with several online services. Free voicemail is available for your profile page from a couple of web sites. Another widget allows you to send text messages for free from your profile. There are also hacks that allow you to share any events that may be going on in your life via your MySpace profile. This is an excellent method of publicity, and best of all, it’s free!
The MySpace Comments section is the main source of communication on the profile page, and it can be dressed up easily with a world of various comments available all over the web. Almost no one settles for a plain text comment when it is just as easy, and a lot more fun to leave a cool and colorful cartoon or other graphic message in your friend’s comment section.
#9
Shop/Sell/ Share – Did you know that it is possible to do all three from the comfort of your MySpace profile? One option is to become a shopping expert. As you browse the web and see products and services you think are a good deal, keep a running list going. Then, download a widget which will let you add the list to your MySpace profile, and also will allow you to become an affiliate for several big name shopping sites. Whenever someone decides to purchase one of the items from your list, you will get the commission. EBay offers a widget for your profile that will promote your auctions. Amazon also has a widget that will let you share your Wish List with others straight from your MySpace profile. This is a handy gadget around holidays and birthdays, as it lets others know of gifts you would like. Other widgets are available that will let you sell your own ringtone and art creations from your profile page. There are many ways you can make your MySpace profile profitable as well as fun.
#10
MySpace Tools and Codes abound in various spots on the web. All of the elements of your profile can be adjusted and changed to suit you. The default page everyone starts out with is pretty blah. You can change the colors and fonts even on a premade layout! If you like everything about a layout except for the background, you can change just the background easily. MySpace is extremely customizable simply by changing the html coding. Many web sites contain the instructions on how to easily do this.
#11
Codes are available to allow you to tweak your profile. You can hide many objects such as the Contact Box, About Me section, Comments section, and any other default section placed there by MySpace. You can resize images with codes, change links to lower case or make them animated when the mouse pointer hovers over them. You can use codes to upload your favorite MP3 from your computer and use it as your profile song. This is great, as all music is not available even in MySpace’s own extensive music section.
#12
Generators - Quizzes, polls, and surveys are very popular with MySpace users. You can find these already made and ready to add, or make up your own with a quiz, poll, or survey generator which is available in many styles. There are also banner generators, flash glitter generators that will create text for use on your profile, world visitor map generators which will allow you to see where the people who visit your profile are from, tattoo generators, custom Friends List generators to dress up this part of your profile, countdown generators, calendar generators, and dozens more.
It’s a lot of fun to find all the best stuff for your MySpace profile and keep up with the latest hacks. Hopefully, the information above will allow you to make your profile page one of the most visited on MySpace!
MySpaceRecommends.com provides free MySpace layouts for your MySpace profile. Download a free MySpace Layout today by visiting MySpace Layouts.
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