Tricklin

I know, I know. I'll probably be crucified for even uttering the word "myspace" in here, but I wanted to write this to say that there is a way to make your myspace page look somewhat presentable, and I can prove it. Making it look presentable is not without it's complications and limitations, however, the ability to do so exists.

Let me first start by saying, that I in no way came up with the code necessary to do this. All the hard work was done by Mike Davidson of mikeindustries.com . Mr. Davidson actually took the time to figure out how to make the crappy back-end code of myspace work for you:

Several weeks ago, I finally signed up for an account, and within seconds I was instantly put-off by what had been created for me: a hastily-designed “profile page” with uninspired colors, misaligned tables, and a mish-mash of extraneous cruft and design elements which made this feel more like a halfway house than a “home”. Now, granted, I am a designer by trade so my tolerance for this stuff is orders of magnitude lower than most of the population, but clearly, this was not a place I even felt comfortable having my name on.

So with the default home page this underwhelming, what is a MySpacer to do? Customize, of course. One of MySpace’s greatest features is its ability to let you skin your own home page. Unfortunately, 99% of the customizations I’ve seen are chalkboard-screechingly awful, but what could a MySpace home page look like if some actual design thought went into it? That is the question I sought to answer. -- Mike Davidson

So, if you are looking for this code, here is a link to his awesome blog entry explaining all about it: "Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace.

So, armed with this code, I was able to create a few decent looking pages:

• My personal myspace page
  
• My wife's page
  
• my brother in-law's page