MySpace Templates

[davemonsterband]

Hey folks, any time I need cpu advice this seems to be the most productive place to begin a query.

I'm doing up a MySpace page for a career venture and I've scoured the internet looking for the best templates I can find, pretty much to no avail. They're either cheesy or too busy or trying too hard to look classy, I need something clean, cool, easy on the eyes while attractive enough to want to keep reading (not sucking up, but like Celticsblog's scheme, maybe a little more graphicy for the college crowd, but this idea for sure). MySpace never really took off in Canada like Facebook did so I really don't have the resources I wish I had for this, general searches are hell. Any and all advice you may have would be very much appreciated.

I'd just do basic colors but I'd prefer something with a bit of a hook to it.

Cheers.

TP's to all that help, even if it takes me a week I'll get y'all back.

[ACF]

Dave, Dave, Dave...
I finally found out why
you never had the time
to answer my Q regarding
your Danish heritage:


****' MySpace!

 

[Bob Day]

Dave, I've never done any MySpace layouts or even looked at many for that matter. After reading your post though, I did look around a bit. Here's what I found. Most of the free stuff is garbage, but there are some people doing some nice-looking MySpace layouts. Here are some links for you that I hope may help you out.

MySpace Layouts at CreateBlog -- this website has some of the more sophisticated and better-looking free designs I've seen for MySpace.

MySpace Skins -- this site also has some nice designs and it also has a some tools including a MySpace Profile Generator that might help you build your own profile or modify an existing one for your needs.

Hacking a More Tasteful MySpace -- this is a blog article by Mike Davidson. Mike is a well-known designer in Seattle that has done some big time projects, including the ESPN website. The article has quite a bit of info on developing good-looking MySpace layouts.

As for the layouts themselves, I took a look at the source code for five or six basic/standard MySpace layouts this morning and found that, at least the ones I looked at, were pretty simple really in terms of what it would take to modify them. Those had only two or three text colors, a few font-family references and three images (background, header, contact). After that there would be maybe some border tweaking and such that you might want to do.

The sites above have some pretty fancy layouts. Customizing some of those would probably take a fair amount more work. It seems to me that as far as doing a basic/standard MySpace layout goes though, the place to start would probably be to find a great background image you like. You might be able to use a portion of it to develop the header and contact images or just go with something else for those images. Once you get your images, then it would probably just be a matter of sampling some color from them to use for text and border colors.

I hope you find some of this helpful and good luck with your design.

[davemonsterband]

TP, thanks again as always Bob, your unwavering support is infinitely appreciated.

[Bob Day]

TP, thanks again as always Bob, your unwavering support is infinitely appreciated.

My pleasure Dave. Good luck!