Customer Reviews

Hacking MySpace: Mods and Customizations to make MySpace Your Space (ExtremeTech)

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In this book, the author talks to me, the most fledgling of geeks, in terms I can understand so that I can grasp the concepts I didn't understand. He gives instructions I can follow. I get the results I want. I'm devouring this book and learning at an incredible pace. It is extremely well organized, things are where you expect to find them. This is a generous author. The supporting website at http://www.myspaceismyplace.com is just as user-friendly and as giving as this book. I recommend this most highly.

Though this title is geared toward people with more experience in HTML and CSS, it is a great resource for those seeking to create an awesome MySpace Profile.

I wish I had found this book sooner. I'd spent at least a week surfing the Internet to find more information on how to really tailor MySpace, and this book would have saved me a lot of time. It's appropriate for people who are new to html and CSS, as well as experienced coders who just want to know how MySpace pages are set up and what's unique about the way they did things. Having previously spent my time just working with inserting CSS and html into MySpace profile boxes, I'm now going to move on to the next big step of using a DIV overlay and make my MySpace really mine. The book is a quick read, full of useful information, has a lot of screen shots to back up the text, and goes beyond coding issues to useful information for improving your photo techniques and editing. John covers all the bases!

This may be a good book for younger people who are EXTREMELY computer savvy. As a fairly computer savvy "senior citizen", I thought this item would be easy for me to follow. Sorry, I finally gave the book to a teen-ager who loved it! This manual is more technical than the average person can follow.

I think this book is excellent for people looking to learn about all the possibilities of editing their MySpace layout, especially the "div layouts." The only issue with the book is that it's beginning to get a little old, but the book still works excellent as a resource and a guide!

Pros: A thorough run down of all of the things that one can do to bend My Space to the will of the more tasteful.

Cons: The grammar needs to be edited a little closer.

If I was to sum this whole book up into three words, it would be -- Boring and Dull. This book was not at all what I expected. It showed how to create really dull myspace pages and example links that weren't even existing anymore. This is a bland book, nothing to be excited about like I was. I wanted something to show me how to create spectacular band myspace sites, this book only covers the very basics of myspace code, and doesn't even know where it is going. i don't recommend this book unless you don't mind disappointments.

The reason I was compelled to write this is because the person who wrote that you have to type in all the code didn't even read the book. It's all available online. I am starting a business and creating advertising from Myspace and this book was the perfect compliment to all that mixed information on the web. It's very comprehensive and usable. Thank you Mr Pospisil.

This one is for the geeks. The most helpful thing about it was about 15 pages into it, it states if you do not understand all this computer language go look at all the sites online that will help you "Pimp your site" or my pace editors that makes life a lot easier. The other thing in the book is that it teaches you how to get the advertisements from these other sites off yours. I am not sure if the price it was worth it for that..but it did help.

I got this book for myself because I've been doing a lot of web design work and I've been doing the majority of my design work making DIV overlays for Myspaces. I got this book hoping it'd help me out with advanced CSS manipulation of band Myspaces, but it turns out there's nothing in there like that. The reason why I gave it four stars is because if I were a beginner at coding Myspaces then I would greatly appreciate having this book. It is a very organized, well written book with lots of great information that would really help out anyone that is looking to start seriously messing with HTML and CSS meant for Myspaces for the first time. It would have gotten a 5 star rating if it went further explaining advanced page layout properties, but what I can say is that this book doesn't have anything that you won't find doing a simple google search of "myspace codes."