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MYSPACE CSS HOVERS, ROLLOVERS, AND SPANS TUTORIAL - I am writing this tutorial to help everyone understand hover codes. We will first cover the basics, then we'll look at image hovers (or image rollovers) and CSS pop-ups. Anyway, so the basics for hovers are that we first need to create a link class. If you've read through the div tutorial or the tutorial on style sheets you will recall that we do this by placing something like this in our style sheet
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HOW TO CHANGE THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR MYSPACE PROFILE PAGE TUTORIAL - Changing your background can be either easy or a little tricky, depending on how you want your background to act. the way i do it is by using cascading style sheets (CSS) because it allows greaterflexibility over the standard body tag
HOW TO MYSPACE: CHANGING YOUR PROFILE THE EASY WAY TUTORIALS - Through out these tutorials the About me section will be used for CSS and other style code while the People I would Like to Meet section will be used for actual content. Without further a due the codes and style sheets.
BACKGROUND AND TABLE CODES FOR MYSPACE STYLE SHEET TUTORIALS - Find out what Background and Table Codes you can use to change the look of your MySpace page.
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR MYSPACE BLOG WITH SELECTORS - So now we really need to understand these selectors, what they do, and how not to duplicate and manipulate the coding. At this time, you can scroll all the way up to the top of the Edit CSS window and you'll see where my CSS started. Here are a few important notes. First, you may notice a bunch of !important tags. I put these in place to override anything that MySpace uses. I prefer to start customizing my blog by using the sheet that MySpace provides to quickly get the basic colors where I want them before making my custom style sheet and doing further editing.
WHAT ARE STYLE TAGS? - Style tags are what is in blue below. You should one have one pair of these, a starting tag and an ending tag, and not have them repeated throughout your profile.
INTRODUCTION TO CSS - Cascading Style Sheets is a programming language designed to help web masters and authors modify the look of web pages. It is with CSS, you can dramatically alter the appearance of your MySpace profile.
BEGINNING CSS TUTORIAL FOR MYSPACE LAYOUTS - Myspace is one of the most popular mediums for people wanting to get the word out about themselves, and becauase a Myspace page is so personal, most folks want a little personalization of their Myspace layout.
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