Well… for those who are new enough to the Web 2.0 game and don’t know how to code in html or know any quick and easy shortcuts without Googling the answer every time, today is your lucky day.
The purpose of today’s post is to simplify your efforts when wanting to use certain font types, colors, and formatting of content on your social profiles, commenting, and so forth.
First off, go to you’re My Space profile. If you don’t have one, get a clue and set one up.
In the back office of your MySpace account, immediately underneath your avatar / profile pic are a couple of key selections (unless things have been moved around… again). The one you want to click on is, “Manage Blog”.
Once your blog section opens up, scroll down, find and click “Post New Blog” on the left hand side. The resulting page will include the fields and options you are given when posting a blog to your profile. However, don’t worry about posting a blog at this point.
Whether you want to dress up your profile, customize the content of your comment posts, or convert your copy to html for any reason… your first task is to lay it all out in Microsoft Word.
Now copy and paste your content from Word to the ‘Body’ field of you’re My Space blog post form.
The next step makes the whole process so worth the effort. If you are using a font that no one else is using or a font that My Space doesn’t offer within their editor, you just might find people asking you how you did it and want to get inside your head.
Customizing content for your Web 2.0 profile.
Okay then, after pasting your content as indicated above… click on the ‘View Source’ button at the bottom left corner of the body’s text field. And… there you have it!
What you see should copy, paste, and appear as you hoped when you first began your project. And of course, if any tweaks are needed, they should be easy enough to figure out on your own. If not, follow my famous words…
“Google It!”
(Paying attention to some simple when it comes to editing your html content will help in the tweaking process.
<b> Desired Text Here </b> = Bold
<u> Desired Text Here </u> = Underline
<br> = Break. Puts an empty line between paragraphs.)
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A Better question is….Why would one care about editing their myspace profile background.
I put that right after editing my Orkut profile. … just saying.
A. Nollmeyer
Good point. Though I’m sure you realize this post is a tutorial for those still new to Social Media and have little to no knowledge of HTML.
I’m more of a graphics guy myself and know just enough code to get by. Anything more, I have my geeks go to town.
So, do you have a favorite Social Site you prefer above anything else? (Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon…)
If you ever want to see a reader’s feedback
, I rate this post for 4/5. Detailed info, but I just have to go to that damn yahoo to find the missed pieces. Thanks, anyway!
Glad that it helped you with ‘most’ of what you needed
. Because this piece isn’t a be all and end all, it doesn’t surprise me that you had to search anything out. Though… I’m more of a Google fan.
Were you able to find the rest of what you needed?