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MySpace Professional Layout

Maintaining a Professional Appearance on MySpace...

MySpace is an online community which can be a fun way for members to meet new friends, reconnect with old friends or make romantic connections. MySpace members who are interested in pursuing these types of activities online are free to create a website which reflects their personality. This will help others to understand who they are and to learn more about their preferences.

Although MySpace offers all of these fun entertainment type activities, there are some members of MySpace who utilize the community for business purposes. They may use MySpace to network, make business connections or to promote their business. In these cases care should be taken to create a MySpace website that is attractive and interesting while maintaining a professional appearance.

Avoid Slang and Abbreviations

One way to maintain a professional appearance on a MySpace website is to avoid the use of slang or abbreviations. Many MySpace websites feature slang, abbreviations and terms which are not grammatically correct. While this type of Internet language may be entertaining and may be considered acceptable among members of the community, this type of writing is not likely to appeal to potential customers or business partners. Additionally, not everyone understand the cryptic language often used on message boards, text messages and emails and those who do not understand may have trouble reading the information presented on the website.

Keep the Design Tasteful

As previously mentioned, those who are using MySpace strictly for entertainment purposes can design a website according to their personal preferences. This may include unusual fonts, garish colours, offensive images and blaring background music. While this type of design may provide a great deal of insight into an individual’s personality it is not a good idea for a business related website. Therefore those who are using their website for promotion of a business should create a more tasteful design.

There are a few generic tips which can make a website appear more professional. The use of muted colours that complement each other can make a website aesthetically appealing. Users are more likely to spend time on websites with these types of colour combinations because it is soothing. Additionally, the use of a common font type and size which makes reading the text simple is recommended. The use of background music should also be avoided in professional websites as many users either do not have speakers or may view the website in a location where they do not want to hear music.

Formatting Text on Myspace

- Add effects to your text to make it cooler looking.

a) Breaking Spaces - To create a new line of text put
in between your text or images. This will create the effect of an enter using the enter key.
Example: Hello!
How are you?
Will look like this:
Hello!
How are you?

You can also use paragraph tags

to create the effect of a new paragraph (two spaces).
Example: Hello!

How are you?
Will look like this:
Hello!

How are you?

b) Bold, Underline, Italics, Strike Through -
Bold = Text You Want Bolded
Underline = Text You Want Underlined
Italics = Text You Want In Italics
Strike Through = Text You Want to Strike Through

c) Adding Colors - Make your text colorful!
Red = Text You Want Red
Green = Text You Want Green
Blue = Text Your Want Blue
Other Color = Text You Want Colorized Here

d) Modifying Font Size - Make your text grow!
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Want to go even bigger? Text Here
Just replace Size Here with any number you want.

e) Modifying Font Face - Change your Font Face
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Text Here = Text Here
Want to use another font face not listed here? Text Here
Replace Font Face with the font face name of your choice.

f) Aligning Text the way you want it.

Text Here

Text Here

Text Here

g) Make Text Move!
Click here to use the simple Marquee (moving text) Generator.
Click here to see the coding for Marquees.

3. Add Images - Your page can be a little boring with no images on it. To add images to your page right click on the image you want to add to your page, click Properties, and get the URL/Address to the image. Then put the url to the image into this code:

4. Add Music - Give your visitors something to listen to while browsing your profile. Search Exploseek.com for the song or video of your choice. Once you've found what you want, copy to url to the to the media file.