myspace layouts in Dreamweaver?

[cygetit]

I'm new to dreamweaver, but I was wondering if you could design a myspace layout in dreamweaver? I know myspace is done in css but me and code so I was hoping that I could design a myspace page using dreamweaver cause I don't like using those layouts you download. I don't feel like it's my design when I do that.

[Mack]

Well, Your only option is to use CSS as you dont have control over the source code. go to your myspace page, view source, copy all and paste into dreamweaver. then play with the CSS there. Which is pretty much what i did.

[dannynosleeves]

Have a look at this...might help you out...

how to turn your myspace into a blog

[tommylogic]

here's the quick and skinny...

CSS:

/* CSS Document */
/*Insert the following CSS into your ‘About Me’ section:*/
/*Tutorial PART 1 section*/
<style type="text/css">
.main {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 125px;
width: 800px;
z-index: 1;
margin-left: -400px;
}
/*Tutorial PART 2 section*/
.navigation{
border-bottom:1px solid;
border:1px solid;
}
.navigation li{
display:inline;
list-style-type:none;
padding:0 20px 0 0;
}
.navigation a:link, .navigation a:visited{
font-family:arial;
font-size:11px;
padding:3px;
}
.navigation a:hover{
text-decoration:none;
padding:3px;
}
.content{
width:525px;
float:left;
padding:5px 5px 5px 7px;
margin:5px 0 0 5px;
border:1px solid;
}
.sidebar{
width:210px;
float:right;
padding:5px 5px 5px 7px;
margin:5px 5px 0 0;
border:1px solid;
}
/*Tutorial PART 3 section*/
input{
color:d6d3d3;
background-color:555555;
border:1px solid;
border-color:d6d3d3;
margin-left:6px;
margin-top:4px;
}
input:hover{
color:555555;
background-color:999999;
border:1px solid;
border-color:555555;
}
input:focus{
color:555555;
border:1px solid;
bord-color:555555;
}
/*Tutorial PART 4 section*/
.floatcontainer{
clear: both;
width: 520px;
height: 300px;
padding: 5px;
background-color: 999999;
}
.leftdiv{
float: left;
width: 225px;
height: 280px;
margin: 2px;
padding: 3px;
background-color: 865433;
}
.rightdiv{
overflow: scroll;
float: right;
width: 275px;
height: 250px;
margin: 2px;
padding: 3px;
background-color: 888888;
}
 
 
</style>
 
 

and here's your overlay (skipped to part 4 of the Tutorial):

<div class="main">
<table style="width: 800px;
height: 800px;
cellpadding: 0px;
cellspacing: 0px;
background-color: FFFFFF;">
<tr><td valign="top">
INSERT CONTENT AND ADDITIONAL DIVS
</td></tr></table></div>

and here's a good example to get you started:

<div class="main">
<table style="width:800px;
height:800px;
cellpadding:0px;
cellspacing:0px;
background-color:FFFFFF;">
<tr><td valign="top">
<ul class="navigation">
<li><a href="http://">Link1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://">Link2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://">Link3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://">Link4</a></li>
<li><a href="http://">Link5</a></li>
</ul>

<div class="content">
MAIN CONTENT AREA
</div>
<div class="sidebar">
<div class="commentbox">
<center>Add Comment / View All</a>
<form method="post"
action="http://comments.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.ConfirmComment">
<input type="hidden" name="friendID" value="InsertFRIENDID" />
<textarea name="f_comments" cols="25" rows="5"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Post" />
</form>
</center>
</div>

YOUR SIDEBAR CONTENT
</div>
<div class="floatcontainer">
<div class="leftdiv">
<p>We're going to float this container to the left</p>
</div>
<div class="rightdiv">
<p>We're going to float this container to the right</p>
</div>
</div>
 
</td></tr></table></div>

but just so you know.. it's a total waste of time and energy and will only teach you poor markup techniques... but that said, hope this helps
This is actually a 4 part tutorial, but just create your XHTML 1.0 Page and insert that into the body and link to the css I gave you.
When you do your markup in Dreamweaver to set it up as you like.. copy everthing inide the body tags to MySpace.
Key note.. remember MySpace is real particular about its CSS... ie: it doesn't like the color: #FFFFFF it only wants color: FFFFFF. real pain, but you'll figure it out.

[Hoyer]

Try Virb instead

[Cwilk]

Yes....listen to Tommy about the CSS coding. Seems just about every week that MySpace changes it's programming so it messes your CSS up. Kind of a bummer when you don't have time to go in and figure out how to fix it to work again—kinda like my MySpace page.