Everyone should have a MySpace account! No matter what your age, from a tween to a senior, there is a place for you on this hugely popular social networking site. People log on to MySpace for many things. Most people use the site to keep up with friends, make new ones, and network with other users from all over the world. MySpace is free to join and easy to use. 65 million people can’t be wrong! Yes, MySpace has 65 million users, and is still growing every day.

One of the enjoyable aspects of MySpace is the ability to customize your profile as often as you like until you get the page to look just the way you want it. You can really use your creativity when you are working on these pages. You’ll also learn some basic HTML along the way, in spite of yourself! You will be using blocks of HTML along with several different sets of code in order to change up the look of your page. Some MySpace users also make use of CSS style sheets to get the effect they are after.

You can do an awful lot with these seemingly simple codes and HTML tweaks. They can be used to hide certain page elements on your profile, change colours, the position of scroll bars, banners and boxes as well as the entire layout, if you like. A word of warning to those who have never attempted to change anything to do with their profile – don’t try to change everything to do with your profile all at once. You might be very, very sorry that you ever even started to attempt a profile change. Why is this? Well, one little slip, one wrong letter or < or > can ruin the appearance of your page. It can be quite difficult and tedious to comb through lines and lines of code in order to locate the little bit that could be making your page look nothing like you intended it to.

That said, it is relatively easy to customize your MySpace profile. You will see an "Edit Profile" link around your default photo. Click on that, and you’ll see that you are at the proper place for changing the different aspects of your profile.

MySpace has several sections on your profile page that are there when you first open your account. Heroes, About Me, Movies, Television, Interests, and several more. Many people have problems with getting the Interests section to look the way they want it to look. Often, once you get this section set up just right, there will be a thick blue space on the left of the section box. This space may have movies or other attractions inside of it. It can really be an annoyance to have this blue space in the way! Luckily, there is a way for you to dispose of it.

Here’s what to do. Copy and paste the following code into the "About Me" section of your profile on the profile editing page.

You can then preview your profile to make sure everything looks all right to you. If you like what you see, you can click on "Save" and you’re all set!

You can also change that blue colour if you so desire. In the above code, note where the word white is. Oddly enough, this is what creates the blue colour. Just change the word "white" to a colour that is pleasing to you. Simple and effective!