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Hacking MySpace: Mods and Customizations to make MySpace Your Space (ExtremeTech)
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Product Description
Get noticed. Get discovered.
It's YourSpace
There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It's all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.
Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:
- Embedding graphics
- Creating animated images
- Developing your own background
- Building custom cursors
- Changing profile text styles
- Getting kinky with links
- Adding a comments box
- Altering your contact table
- Redesigning the navigation bar
- Making DIV overlays
A companion Web site provides even more tricks and techniques.
Visit www.myspaceismyplace.com to find all code from this book, links to software and featured profiles, a reader forum, and more.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #50269 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 408 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Get noticed. Get discovered.
It's YourSpace
There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you makeYOURS stand out? You use these programming tricks and tech-niques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You getthe inside scoop on hotdesign and photography.You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And if you happen to be amusician, you check outChapter 30 to see howMySpace can launch yourcareer. It's all in here. Dude, what are you waiting for?
Make it all about you
Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks
- Embedding graphics
- Creating animated images
- Developing your own background
- Building custom cursors
- Changing profile text styles
- Getting kinky with links
- Adding a comments box
- Altering your contact table
- Redesigning the navigation bar
- Making DIV overlays
Companion Web site
Visit www.myspaceismyplace.com to find all code from this book, links to software and featured profiles, a reader forum, and more
About the Author
John Pospisil is the founder of CogentInsights, a marketing and communications consultancy specializing in new and converging media. He was the product development champion and founding editor of Computer CHOICE, a magazine launched by the Australian Consumers' Association in 1995 and still one of Australia's most credible and independent IT titles. And he really had fun putting this book together.
Customer Reviews
Hacking My Space
This one is for the geeks. The most helpful thing about it was about 15 pages into it, it states if you do not understand all this computer language go look at all the sites online that will help you "Pimp your site" or my pace editors that makes life a lot easier. The other thing in the book is that it teaches you how to get the advertisements from these other sites off yours. I am not sure if the price it was worth it for that..but it did help.
Good if You're a Beginner
I got this book for myself because I've been doing a lot of web design work and I've been doing the majority of my design work making DIV overlays for Myspaces. I got this book hoping it'd help me out with advanced CSS manipulation of band Myspaces, but it turns out there's nothing in there like that. The reason why I gave it four stars is because if I were a beginner at coding Myspaces then I would greatly appreciate having this book. It is a very organized, well written book with lots of great information that would really help out anyone that is looking to start seriously messing with HTML and CSS meant for Myspaces for the first time. It would have gotten a 5 star rating if it went further explaining advanced page layout properties, but what I can say is that this book doesn't have anything that you won't find doing a simple google search of "myspace codes."
A good resource
This is a really good book for doing what it says it's trying to do - teach you to personalize your MySpace page. It has a good balance; it's not so technical that it overwhelms and not so simple that it isn't useful.
