Put your pictures here!

If you want to put your own pictures or banners on your profile there are several ways to do it. Here are a few of them:

• Photobucket – This is where I host my pictures for Myspace! You get a gig of free space to store pictures, videos, avatars, & icons. Photobucket provides you the ability to edit your images, create slideshows, design avatars, or start a scrapbook with your pictures and videos!
• Slide.com – No limit image hosting! At slide.com you can create slideshows and guest books, personalize your images with stickers and graffiti, skin your youtube videos with cool designs like sparkling bling plasma screens, and Superpoke your friends!

Create cool text!

Add a little creativity to your profile with these flashy text generators:

• Glitter – Create all types of glitter text with this cool tool from Glitterfly
• Upside Down – Flip your text upside down at this site
• Rainbow – Need some color? Create rainbow text with this generator

Design your Profile!

A few of my favorite sites to get a pre-made profile layouts, design your own profile layout, get codes to hide areas of your profile such as your comments or friends, find character codes and more:

• Freecodesource.com – Here at Freecodesource.com, we help guide you through the steps of customizing your Myspace Profile. We provide easy to use Myspace Generators, and take you step by step in our Myspace Tutorials. You can add myspace cursors, myspace graphics, myspace games, myspace clocks, myspace layouts and tons more with our premade Myspace ready Copy and Paste Codes. *My favorite site for Myspace stuff!
• Glitterfly – Custom glitter graphics for myspace. Find all sorts of glitter graphics or glitter your own photos!
• Pyzam – Myspace Layouts from pYzam come in tons of great categories. Our Myspace layouts are always free and easy to use! Try our Hott Myspace Layouts, Cute Myspace Layouts, Basketball Myspace Layouts, or anything from our massive layout collection! You can even request a Myspace layout to be made by pYzam.
• LoveMyFlash – Tons of Flash layouts designed by professionals for Myspace profiles
• Freemyspacelist.com – Fine all kinds of layouts including div layouts.

Add the cool stuff!

Here are the sites to find all of the cool widgets and toys for Myspace:

• POQbum.com – TONS of flash toys & generators including mp3 players, lava lamps, countdown generators and more!
• Bulletin Comment Box – create a bulletin comment box for your profile. Perfect to use if you hid the comments on your profile but and still want to receive your comments.
• Poodwaddle.com – Get all sorts of cool flash programs and games including the earth clock.
• Blogthings.com – Here are all of those quizzes you see on everyone’s profiles
• Freemyspacelist.com – Find pretty much everything for Myspace at this site including layouts, div layouts, graphics, generators, codes, icons, and more!

After you have created your new Myspace profile, friend me on myspace!

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Myspace is a great place to stay connected with friends or to meet new ones however it is also a great place to get phished or scammed as well. Here are a few ways in which you can protect yourself on Myspace.

• Back up your profile – You back up everything else why not your Myspace profile? The best way to do this is the open a blank notepad document (notepad not Word or Wordpad) and copy each section of your Myspace profile into the notepad document and save it to your harddrive. Do this everytime you add to or change your profile and that way if anything ever happens you can get your profile back up in no time.
• Pay Attention – Just because you are on your friend’s profile page does not mean that you can’t get phished! If you click on a link or picture and it takes you to the Myspace login page, be careful! Make sure and type Myspace.com into your address bar to make sure you are truly at the Myspace home page. Also, if you click a link in Myspace make sure the address you are intending to go to is actually the address you are at! Always check your address bar. Another simple way to make sure the link is the same is to enable the status bar at the bottom of your browser window (top of your browser click view then click status bar, that should enable it at the bottom of your browser) and mouse over the link. The actual address will appear in the status bar. Make sure it is the same address you are clicking on! Don’t ever click on anything you feel might be suspicious in anyway. Web sites are capable of stealing information from you whether you actually click on anything or not.
• Don’t fall for it – Though I am certain there are legitimate needs being posted on Myspace unless you can verify the organization or source of the request don’t fall for it. There are plenty of scams on Myspace and chances are the person/persons/animals are not dying, starving, or saving a life but merely trying to get your credit card or bank information to steal from you later. NEVER give out your financial information unless you are at a secure, reputable site such as Paypal, Ebay, etc. and even then you should be careful. You can verify that you are on a secure site by checking your browser for the lock icon or by looking at the web address, making sure it begins with a https rather than http. (Mozilla Firefox is the most secure browser you can use. Download it here.)
• Change your password – Change your password OFTEN! And if you ever feel as though you might have been led to a phishing page or accidentally put your login information into a page you believe might be bogus… CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD! (Just be sure and remember your new one!) When you change your password get creative… Don’t just use all letters, mix it up! Use all the allowed characters possible and if it is case sensitive, take advantage of it by using both capital and lowercase letters.

Here are a few more articles on the subject:

• Myspace Scams
• How to Protect Your Personal Information, Privacy on Your MySpace Profile | Associated Content
• Myspace Safety & Security Tips for Parents | Symantec

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Add Images

• If you want to add an image insert the following code remembering to change the url to your image’s url. The border can be any number with zero being no border and 9 being a thick border. Photobucket is a great place to host photos for your Myspace, Facebook, ebay and more!

<img src="http://www.yourimageurlhere.com" border="0" />

Add Links

• Add a link with the following code:

<a href="http://www.urlyourlinkingto.com">text you're linking</a>

• Add a link that opens in a separate tab or window with this code:

<a href="http://www.urlyourlinkingto.com" target="_blank">
text you're linking</a>

Color, size, & style your fonts

• There are hundreds of colors you can use to color your text. You can either use a name such as red or blue (here is a safe list of color names) or you can use a hex code which looks like this –> #333333 (Colourlovers has an awesome list of hex codes with examples.)

<font color=red(or #FF0000)>text you want red</font>

• If you want to make your text larger or smaller you can do it with the following code (for the size you can use numbers 1-7, with 1 being smaller and 7 being very large)

<font size=2>text you want a normal size</font>

• Make your text bold with this code:

<b>your bold text here</b> or <strong>your bold text here</strong>

• Use this code to make your text italic:

<em>your italic text here</em>

Random Snippets

• To create a space between sentences, pictures, videos, etc.:

<br />

• If you want to center something (and this works for anything text, pictures, videos, anything)

<center>what you want centered</center>

• Create a paragraph:

<p>your paragraph</p>

• You can align your paragraph too:

<p align="right, left, or center">your paragraph</p>

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