HACKING MYSPACE
CONTENTS PART I: INTRODUCING MYSPACE CHAPTER 1: MAKING MYSPACE YOUR SPACE WHAT IS MYSPACE? WHY MYSPACE IS COOL CREDIBILITY IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BEWARE THE DARK SIDE WRAPPING UP CHAPTER 2: CUSTOMIZING AND HACKING MYSPACE GETTING READY INSERTING HTML MYSPACE EDITORS CHAPTER 3: INTRODUCTION TO HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE INTRODUCING TAGS DOCUMENT STRUCTURE PARAGRAPHS FORMAT EXAMPLE HOW IT WILL LOOK LINE BREAKS HEADINGS HORIZONTAL RULED LINES TEXT STYLES ALIGNMENT PREFORMATTING LINKS THE UNORDERED LIST THE ORDERED LIST THE DEFINITION LIST ADJUSTING YOUR FONTS PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER CHAPTER 4: MORE ON HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE DIVISIONS CONTENTS SPANS TABLES SPECIFYING HOW A TABLE APPEARS DEFINING HOW A CELL APPEARS SPECIAL CHARACTERS CHAPTER 5: USING A TEXT EDITOR BENEFITS OF A TEXT EDITOR THE CODING PROCESS WRITING, EDITING, AND PROOFING TEXT MARKING UP TEXT COPYING CODE INTO MYSPACE CHAPTER 6: INTRODUCTION TO CASCADING STYLE SHEETS STYLE SHEETS EXTERNAL STYLE SHEETS INTERNAL STYLE SHEETS INLINE STYLES SELECTORS PREDEFINED HTML TAGS USER-DEFINED TAGS IDS CLASSES DEFINING STYLES USING SAFE MODE TRYING THE EXAMPLES STYLING TEXT FONT-FAMILY XV CONTENTS COLOR FONT SIZE USING MULTIPLE CLASSES FONT STYLE FONT WEIGHT LINE HEIGHT FONT VARIANT THE COMBINATION FONT PROPERTY TEXT INDENT TEXT ALIGN MARGIN PADDING CONTENTS BORDER BACKGROUND COLOR CHAPTER 7: MORE ON CASCADING STYLE SHEETS PSEUDO ELEMENTS AND CLASSES FIRST LETTER FIRST LINE USING <SPAN> AND <DIV> TAGS STYLING PREDEFINED TAGS POSITIONING WORKING WITH ABSOLUTE POSITIONING DEFINING THE ORDER HIDING AN ELEMENT CHAPTER 8: USING MYSPACE WITH IMAGE HOSTING WEB SITES INTRODUCING PHOTOBUCKET ENTER THE GIMP EDITING THE IMAGE UPLOADING THE IMAGE OBTAINING THE LINK CODE XVII CONTENTS CHAPTER 9: USING MYSPACE WITH YOUR OWN WEB SITE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL WHY YOU NEED AN FTP CLIENT FTP ADDRESS, USER NAME, AND PASSWORD EDITING YOUR PHOTO USING YOUR FTP CLIENT PROTECTING YOUR DIRECTORY PART II: THE HACKS CHAPTER 10: EMBEDDING IMAGES PREPARATION SOURCING IMAGES PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES INLINE IMAGES LINKING YOUR IMAGES ALIGNING YOUR IMAGES APPLYING STYLES TO YOUR IMAGES CREATING A BORDER AROUND YOUR IMAGE POSITIONING YOUR IMAGE ADVANCED CONCEPT — USING THE <DIV> TAG FOR POSITIONING CHAPTER 11: USING FILTERS APPLYING FILTERS TO IMAGES AND TEXT THE FILTERS ALPHA BLUR DROPSHADOW FLIPH FLIPV GLOW GRAY INVERT CONTENTS SHADOW WAVE X-RAY CHAPTER 12: CREATING ANIMATED GIFS USING GIMP TO CREATE ANIMATED GIFS CREATING LAYERS AND ANIMATION FRAMES ANIMATING THE IMAGE CHAPTER 13: BACKGROUNDS FINDING AND SELECTING A BACKGROUND CREATING YOUR OWN BACKGROUND UPLOADING YOUR BACKGROUND TO THE INTERNET THE NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY INSERTING A BACKGROUND IMAGE CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR CHAPTER 14: BACKGROUND MUSIC THE EASY OPTION THE SECOND EASY OPTION THE REAL HACK SOURCING AN AUDIO FILE TYPES OF AUDIO FILES UPLOADING THE FILE TO A WEB SERVER PLAYING AN AUDIO FILE ADVANCED AUDIO PLAYBACK CHAPTER 15: PLAYING VIDEOS THE EASY WAY OUT PREPARING YOUR VIDEO HOSTING YOUR VIDEO PLAYING YOUR VIDEO ADVANCED VIDEO PLAYBACK XIX CONTENTS CHAPTER 16: FUN WITH LINKS CHANGING THE CURSOR CHANGING LINK STYLES ADVANCED TIPS CHAPTER 17: CUSTOM CURSORS DESIGNING A CURSOR FINDING A CURSOR ON THE INTERNET UPLOADING YOUR CURSOR TO A HOSTING SITE THE CODE CHAPTER 18: CHANGING PROFILE TEXT HOW IT WORKS THE CODES GENERAL PROFILE TEXT YOUR NAME LEFT SIDE HEADERS RIGHT SIDE HEADERS DETAILS BOX LABELS EXTENDED NETWORK BOX COMMENT BOX DATES LATEST BLOG ENTRY YOUR DETAILS URL BOX PUTTING IT TOGETHER CHAPTER 19: CUSTOMIZING OTHER PARTS OF YOUR PROFILE CUSTOMIZING GROUPS CUSTOMIZING VIEW MORE PICTURES POSTING CODE IN FORUMS CUSTOMIZING YOUR BLOG CHAPTER 20: ADDING A COMMENTS BOX THE BASIC COMMENTS BOX BLENDING YOUR COMMENTS BOX INTO YOUR PROFILE SPICING UP YOUR COMMENTS BOX CHAPTER 21: USING MARQUEES AND SLIDESHOWS IMAGE PREPARATION A BASIC SLIDESHOW CONTROLLING DIRECTION MISBEHAVIOR OTHER USEFUL ATTRIBUTES ZIGZAG WHAT’S YOUR POSITION? CHAPTER 22: CHANGING YOUR CONTACT TABLE THE EASY WAY CREATING A BACKGROUND IMAGE UPLOADING THE BACKGROUND IMAGE CHAPTER 23: CREATING YOUR OWN NAVIGATION BAR THE HACK ADDING MORE LINKS CHANGING THE SEPARATOR CHANGING THE LINK STYLE FIXING POSITIONING PROBLEMS XXI CONTENTS CHAPTER 24: MISCELLANEOUS HACKS CREATING A CUSTOM ONLINE NOW ICON CHANGING THE COLOR OF THE BROWSER SCROLLBAR ADDING A SCROLLBAR TO YOUR BLURB FLIPPING YOUR PROFILE MOVING YOUR CONTACT TABLE CHAPTER 25: DIV OVERLAYS HIDING THE EXISTING PROFILE RESTYLING THE EXISTING TEXT STYLING THE NEW SECTIONS HIDING COMMENTS PLACING NEW CONTENT RESTORING THE CONTACT TABLE FUNCTIONS PLACING YOUR PROFILE PICTURE ADDING PERSONAL INFORMATION AND PROFILE FUNCTIONS ADDING CONTENT CUSTOMIZING THE TEMPLATE ADJUSTING THE DIVS CHANGING COLORS THE FINISHED DIV OVERLAY THE ORIGINAL CODE THE MODIFIED CODE ADDING BACK YOUR COMMENTS AND FRIENDS DIV LAYERS DIV GENERATORS WORKING WITH OTHER SITES GROUP DIVS USING FLASH IN YOUR PROFILE PART III: DESIGN AND PHOTOGRAPHY CHAPTER 26: SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE PURPOSE YOU AUDIENCE CONTENTS CONTENT MAIN PROFILE TEXT YOUR MAIN PROFILE IMAGE AND YOUR SUPPORTING IMAGES BLOGS CHAPTER 27: PROFILE DESIGN FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT CONSIDERING FORM AND FUNCTION CONCEPTUALIZATION DEVELOPING A COLOR SCHEME SELECTING FONTS SELECTING IMAGES LAYING OUT YOUR PAGE THE PROFILE HALL OF FAME DAN HILL ELDA RAMIREZ VALERIE BURGESS MICHELLE MANNOR KEVIN TURNER MICHAEL SABINE CHAPTER 28: TAKING WINNING PHOTOS CHOOSING YOUR SUBJECT BEING QUICK FRAMING THE PICTURE TAKING AS MANY PHOTOS AS POSSIBLE FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND THE IMPORTANCE OF LIGHTING USING FILL-IN FLASH UNDERSTANDING YOUR CAMERA COMPOSITION AVOIDING CAMERA SHAKE CHAPTER 29: PHOTO EDITING THE BASICS CROPPING RESIZING AND ROTATION ADJUSTING BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST BRIGHTNESS CONTRAST COLOR LEVELS COLOR CURVES WINDOW REPLACING THE BACKGROUND XXIII CONTENTS PART IV: MYSPACE MUSIC CHAPTER 30: FINDING FAME AND FORTUNE ON MYSPACE CREATING A MYSPACE ARTIST’S PROFILE REALITY CHECK USING MYSPACE EFFECTIVELY DEFINING WHO YOU ARE GOOD QUALITY SOUND UPDATING REGULARLY SEGMENTING YOUR MARKET GET THE WORD OUT MAKE THE RIGHT FRIENDS CASE STUDIES JESSICA MELLOTT NORTH OF HOLLYWOOD JOSHUA’S WHISPER BEN BLEDSOE CHAPTER 31: FINAL THOUGHTS A CLEANER MYSPACE FAD OR A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME THE RISE OF ADVERTAINMENT VIDEO BLOGS THE TIPPING POINT TAKING THE NEXT STEP IMPROVE YOUR CSS SKILLS LEARN FROM OTHERS JOIN A CODER’S GROUP LEARN FLASH FINAL WORD INTRODUCING MYSPACE M YSPACE IS A PHENOMENON IN ITS OWN RIGHT CHANCES ARE YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT MYSPACE IS ALL ABOUT, AND, INDEED, YOU MAY EVEN HAVE YOUR OWN MYSPACE PROFILE THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU DESIGN A TRULY AWESOME PROFILE THE PURPOSE OF PART I IS TO NOT ONLY GIVE YOU AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE MYSPACE FITS INTO THE GREATER CONTEXT OF THE INTERNET BUT ALSO TO PROVIDE THE BUILDING BLOCKS YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE HACKS LATER IN THE BOOK BY THE END OF PART I YOU’LL HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML) AS WELL AS OF CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS) YOU’LL ALSO LEARN HOW TO PLACE CODE IN YOUR PROFILE AND HOW TO USE AN HTML OR TEXT EDITOR TO COMPOSE YOUR CODE PART I ALSO COVERS HOW TO UPLOAD IMAGES TO FILE-HOSTING WEB SITES, OR TO YOUR OWN WEB SITE, SO THAT THEY CAN BE EMBED- DED IN YOUR PROFILE CHAPTER MAKING MYSPACE YOUR SPACE CHAPTER CUSTOMIZING AND HACKING MYSPACE CHAPTER INTRODUCTION TO HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE CHAPTER MORE ON HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE CHAPTER USING A TEXT EDITOR CHAPTER INTRODUCTION TO CASCADING STYLE SHEETS CHAPTER MORE ON CASCADING STYLE SHEETS CHAPTER USING MYSPACE WITH IMAGE HOSTING WEB SITES CHAPTER