Editor’s Note: This brief article has helped thousands of musicians begin to gain control over their MySpace pages. If it also helps you please consider friending me on MySpace! In your “ADD ME” note make sure to mention that you found me through my blog. Or, comment below, including your url, to share further tips or tricks you may have uncovered.
I just spent a boggling amount of time (inclusive of intensive brain-process time while asleep) trying to learn how to update the layout of my MySpace music profile.
I won’t bore you with all the gory details. The upshot is, MySpace operates on its own peculiar set of rules, and 99% of websites proffering updated MySpace layouts (AKA “MySpace Codes”) do not care one iota if you understand them. They just want you to pick your layout and be happy.
(Even if you’re a savvy web-user it might not be immediately obvious where you paste the layout, as there is no obvious “backstage” area of MySpace. Improbably, any code alterations get pasted into your About Me box – or, if you’re a Band, your Bio box.)
My problems were twofold:
(a) We all know I can’t be happy until I understand how something works.
(b) Normal profile codes and editors don’t necessarily work they way you want them to on a Band profile.
Now, allow me to provide other musicians with the benefit of my 16 hours of experience in this field. It’s not a tutorial, so much as a guidebook. For this to be of any use you should have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, and a high capacity for trial and error testing.
First: Understand what you’re getting into. Read an awesome article by Mike Davidson that gives a detailed overview of how MySpace layouts work, and what you have to do to alter them. They’re effectively a series of nested tables altered by simplistic CSS code – not so bad, right?
Next: See Mike’s explanation at play. Visit Views Under Construction and then visit their sample profile and band profile. Now you understand the degree of manipulation you can put your profile through!
Then: Look before you leap. Dip your toe in the alteration waters by checking out some isolated edits you can make at Pimp Web Page, pasting them into your profile to see their effects. Note that you can do more than just change colors – you can resize, move, and hide most elements of a profile.
Finally: Head to the best editor I found, Real Editor. It’s meant for normal profiles, but you can still load up your band file. Here you can tweak just about any element of your page!
My suggestion? After you’re through playing around copy out the complete code for reference. If there’s any of it that doesn’t make sense, go back and work out one element at a time. Each time you finish an element, get the HTML. It will have some other junk in it, but it should be easy to pull out the one element of the code you actually altered. After a few iterations you’ll begin to understand what’s what. Try starting with your Contact Table, which is called contactTable in CSS.
When In Doubt: It’s not always obvious what certain page elements are named, or how they’re manipulated. If you’re stumped on how to get your intended result, trying viewing the source code of your profile, or another profile that you like. Zero in on the thing you’re trying to change.
If it’s an element like your top friends, search for text inside that table – you’ll discover the table class is friendSpace. If you’re viewing a cool profile that has altered that particular element, search again – this time for the name of that class. Now you should see the CSS that’s driving their manipulation.
If what you like is a minor element, like a certain border or text treatment, try searching for that color’s hex value (grab it beforehand by taking a screenshot and using an eyedropper tool in Photoshop, or similar).
And: Every time you arrive at a non-objectionable result copy out your code into a text file and save it before you keep working. If you’re having trouble with one tricky element, just work on that element in an otherwise blank About Me box, and add it to the rest of your saved code once you get it right.
Hope this helps!
thank you so much for this post!
Thanks SO much for this blog post. I had spent HOURS trying to edit my page and never could. You made it easy!
Alisa
I was wondering if you could tell me how to hide the about title in my bio section on my music account. I want to replace it with an image that says “Band Bio”. ?
Thanks – Rick
i would like if i had a studio ha
Thanks for posting this, and for sharing your findings. I have spent much time pulling my hair out on this seemingly elusive process!
Happy I could help! I find myself referring back to this post all of the time. It’s hard to believe MySpace doesn’t have an (even easier) easy reference guide.
…and I thought it was just me.
is there anyway i can add personal page info to my music page… for example.. i’d like to add my schools to my music page and make it more of a personal / band page hybrid
Norby – I’m not sure if you can add additional boxes to the layout, which sounds like it would be the most literal way to solve your problem.
Even if you can add boxes, you’d be adding the information manually – which means it wouldn’t dictate your network when it comes to MySpace search. In effect, MySpace isn’t looking for that info from a band.
im still confused.
whenever i click on edit profile page it takes me to bandprofile.shows page! as a result i cannot even get to the myspace 2.0 editor.
im going mad. please help.
sorry i meant whenever i click on customize profile page
Isn’t it simpler to just build a dedicated site than this bullshit myspace.This really prove that people are just stupid flock of cows.
Kokot, we are in complete agreement. However, MySpace is used very regularly by people who book local concerts and festivals, so it is a necessary evil.
I’ve been trying to set up my music myspace page and want to advertise my new single at the top of the page(before the streaming music box) Alot of musicians do this. For example look at florence and the machines page. I really can’t out how to do it at all. you could help me by any chance please?
Been trying to edit the “about” section on my music profile, but having trouble finding it. How do I edit the “about” section?
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