Setting Up a MySpace Profile in Java

Painting Data Matrix ECC200 in Java Setting Up a MySpace Profile

message on your blog, click the Blog link on the top navbar The Blog Control Center is displayed (see Figure 1-12)

Many designers look at the default MySpace profile design and groan, claiming that MySpace sets Web design back about a decade or so If you feel the same way, you might want to give your profile a customized look Many Web sites provide free MySpace templates for you to use Some look attractive, and others look garish and migraine inducing Our best advice is to use your favorite search engine to search for free MySpace templates and browse through the site listings Most sites allow you to copy the template (consisting of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets [CSS] code) to your Clipboard for pasting into MySpace later After you settle on a template design, follow these steps: Creating Your Own Space on MySpace

1 Go to your profile page and click the Edit Profile link 2 In the About Me section, paste the template code into the box, above

any text you might have there See Figure 1-15

Figure 1-15: Adding a custom template in the About Me box is kludgy, but it works!

If you find that you don t like the new look, simply delete the HTML and CSS code you added in the About Me box and save your changes

Understanding what Google Page Creator can do Signing up for Google Page Creator Creating a basic Web site Changing the look and layout of a page Working with images and text Linking your pages Publishing your site

nline Web site creators are everywhere You can find plenty of free ones across the Web Your Internet service provider (ISP) probably has one Most of the big names of the Web have one, too A few of these browserbased tools try hard to do almost everything that Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression does on your desktop (Trust us they can t) Other online builders are so limited that you can t do much of anything However, arguably the most common attribute of these builders, other than that they work inside your browser, is that they tend to produce bland, unremarkable, or even downright ugly sites Google recently made public its own online Web site builder, known as Google Page Creator Although this free tool from Google won t make the developers at Adobe or Microsoft nervous, it stands out from the crowded pack of online builders It offers a painfree way to get a rather attractive Web site up and running in a jiffy In this chapter, we introduce you to Google Page Creator and walk you through the steps to build a basic Web site Perhaps the initial site you create is a stepping stone for you a temporary site as you begin working with Dreamweaver (see Book IV) or Expression (see Book III) Or, you may find Google Page Creator to be just the site builder you re looking for

The Web site you create by using Google Page Creator is hosted by Google and will have the URL your_Gmail_addressgooglepagescom The hosting is free, but you can t specify your own domain name

Here are two general principles to keep in mind as you begin to work with Google Page Creator: You work with one page at a time The edits and changes you make are generally limited to the current page you re working on Other pages in your site that you created are unaffected A couple of examples explain the significance of this fact: If you change the look of your site, you need to individually update every page on your site Your pages aren t interconnected by default You need to manually add links before your home page will link to any other page you create You can edit some but not all parts of a page A page is a template with regions that you can edit, such as title, subtitle, content, and footer Depending on the layout you select, the content region can include one, two, or three columns You re free to add content within these regions, but you can t insert it outside of them