Hack a Music MySpace Profile
I was tasked to redesign a Music MySpace Profile Page – below is the outcome:
Recently a client approached me and asked me to redesign their MySpace music page. I had recently helped someone redesign their personal page using the Profile 2.0 editor built into MySpace and found it very easy, so I thought the music ones would be a doddle.
How very wrong I was. The Profile 2.0 editor has not yet made it onto the Music side of MySpace. In order to get a profile looking swish and out of the ordinary, some serious jiggery pokery is required.
I spent several hours searching the Internet for an easy, basic start to editing the MySpace music page on which I could build up the profile to something I wanted.
I eventually found a forum designated specifically to hacking myspace layouts with a section committed just to music layouts.
The code I used was from MySpaceDivs.info
This code essentially hides all the basic elements of the Myspace Music profile and lets you build it up yourself using absolutely position DIVs. The method is quite unnatural for me, by Myspace layouts are generally for looks and concentrate less on SEO or Accessibility – which is a shame.
You are then required to design the page again, including the Add Me, Friends etc buttons yourself. To do this, you can design your own button/image and link it up using the following code.
To do this, you will need to find out your friend ID. To find your Friend ID, view your own friends and your address bar should look something like this:
http://friends.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID= 538154926
At the end of myone, you can see it says ‘friendID= 538154926’. That number is the friend ID. Armed with that, you can now create your own Message Me, Add Me etc buttons
Creating an Add Me button:
Create a link to the following location. Make sure you change your ‘friend ID’ (the bit in bold) to your own ID!
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=538154926
Creating a Message Me button:
Create a link to the following location. Make sure you change your ‘friend ID’ (the bit in bold) to your own ID.
http://messaging.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.message&friendID= 538154926
Add a Comment link:
If you want to be really flash, you can make your own comment box (using a textarea) and button using the following link (with your own friend ID)
http://comment.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile_commentForm&friendID=538154926
All these enable you to ‘rebuild’ your MySpace profile – exactly how you want it!
There are rumors that Profile 2.0 editor is coming to MySpace music, so soon this code will be obsolete, but until then, these were the best codes I found.
Many thanks to the interweb
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