Comments on: Designing For the MySpace Crowd

By: jennifer palmer

jennifer palmer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:19:09 +0000

Hi, one thing i noticed is that with a screen reader most of myspace just is flat out unusable, I did a few things on my page so i can use it with jaws for windows. I switched my page to classic view then in jaws i turn off frame start and end, lots of crap hiddin after that, then i also shut off inline frames, this has helped sorta but the quagmire of absolute disreguard for the blind of course remains. I have contacted myspace on this several times and gotten no where. We won’t even go in to the instant messenger client they threw up with no love for the blind, yes i know that i go on about blind people, but that is the disability i have the most experience with since i am blind myself

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:56:44 +0000

Okay, so how DID you do it with a music account? would you mind sharing your secrets?? ;)

By: Marco Krenn

Marco Krenn — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:11:39 +0000

Hi i just went over my profile inspired by
http://www.myspace.com/secretshows
but when i saw the source of secretshows i asked myspace to get a css 2.0 like they have but didnt get an answer.

my profile
http://www.myspace.com/mckdesign

By: Ryan Belisle

Ryan Belisle — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:59:28 +0000

I just recently went through a long process on creating a div overlay layout for MySpace for a new Restaurant that is opening up in my town. It was quite the pain in the arse, its not perfect but it came out pretty sweet! Just that the only thing that is not-manual are the comments, everything else has to be done by hand (ie the Friends, Upcoming Events, etc.)

http://myspace.com/riverfallscomplex

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:59:16 +0000

http://myspace.com/the1movement

By: eddmun

eddmun — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:02:05 +0000

Heh, cheers Kevin.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:00:10 +0000

I just rebuilt my profile on top of the old one because I couldn’t be bothered playing about with the code too much. I managed to come up with http://myspace.com/mikekuul (design mirrors the design I am working on for my personal site) which looks fine. Like you said, people on myspace don’t care if it is valid, as long as it looks trendy to them.

Then again, I am going to hell for bad mark-up :(

By: mikelioe

mikelioe — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:59:15 +0000

The MartyrAgency.com domain is still available.. Better quit screwing around with this bloated mess at myspace and help these people called MartyrAgency get a real profile on the web..

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:06:20 +0000

I am so jealous, I absolutely love your layout, I’ve sent you a friend request (the words friend request sound so awkward on a blog about proper design, especially in the comments)

By: eddmun

eddmun — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:49:37 +0000

My Space