Myspace.com - The new internet craze

Dr Lobster* · Tue 18 Jul, 2006 17.51

i don't know what speed internet link some of these people on myspace have, but some profiles have like 20mb of images and junk on the first page.

the thing about faceparty is that although it wasn't as customiseable, at least the profiles are readable - many on myspaces look shit.

the only thing it's good for is as has been mentioned keeping in touch with people in uni etc.

Charlie Wells · Tue 18 Jul, 2006 18.50

Dr Lobster* wrote:the thing about faceparty is that although it wasn't as customiseable, at least the profiles are readable - many on myspaces look shit.

It doesn't help when the MySpace profiles are coded so badly in the first place. Using tables for layout instead of css and not even giving tables/cells ID or CLASS tags to make it easier for users to customise properly (not to mention them not liking people using '#' and a few other tags). Looking at some profiles they have been customised with IE in mind and doesn't is even more unreadable using Firefox.

martindtanderson · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 13.27

Do you have much experience with CSS Positioning then?

I have been able to do good things with tables, but I just cannot work with CSS Positioning. If only there was a graphical tool for working with them, like Desktop publishing software, it works on the same principles of frames and boxes, why do we not have a CSS/HTML equivilant of QuarkXpress or InDesign?

DAS · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 21.44

I'm getting more and more frustrated with Myspace. Once you've got your head round a bit of pathetically-structured coding, the servers go down. It's just so rubbish.

I won't give up though, that's too logical.

Lorns · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 21.50

What's wrong with just using the basic layout when you sign up. It works for me. I just know if i try customising myspaz i'll f**k my page up. It says what i want it to say, plays what i want it to play and shows the pics i want. Nothing fancy for me.

martindtanderson · Tue 25 Jul, 2006 16.13

damn silly site, a mate of mine, who is in the army now, sent me his myspace link, and i had to signup just to view his photos, i suppose I could make a profile, but right now there isnt much reason to, if mor of my mates join, i may do it, and use it as a place to showcase my design stuff.

anyway, i'll return to lurking around metropol