Customer Reviews

Amp Your MySpace Page

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I liked this book a lot. When I first pulled it from the bookstore shelf I thought it would be more involved. I thought it would be more like a treatise on the ins and outs of MySpace and how to customize a MySpace profile. It has 16 chapters and an appendix dealing primarily with HTML coding:

1. The basics of updating your profile
2. Using HTML to enhance your page
3. Using CSS to change your profile
4. Images and photos
5. Animate your profile with Flash and more
6. Make your profile multimedia ready
7. Finding third-party templates and plug-ins
8. Blogging
9. Nine more ways to update your profile
10. Growing your circle of friends
11. Contributing to the MySpace community
12. Unleash your inner artist
13. Developing an online following
14. Using MySpace classified advertising and more
15. Marketing your music on MySpace
16. Working the Net for your music group

As I read through the book I saw that it is a wonderful tutorial. It's kind of like a cookbook. Just start at the beginning and do what it tells you in setting up your MySpace profile and then do exactly what it tells you to do to customize your MySpace presence. What it tells you to do might not tweek your profile the way you want it to ultimately be. But you will learn by doing, and when you finish the book you should be knowledgeable and comfortable with the process so you can go back and redo your presence the way you want it to be.

The beauty of this book is it will ultimately teach you the process of putting together Web pages and Web sites if you let it. Then you will be in a great position to build your company's own Web site and blogs outside of the MySpace arena. 5 stars!

Some people need to read a book to figure out how to do something...I'm one of those people and this book helped. It's easy to read and I made changes to myspace webpage as I worked through the book. I'm still not an expert or pro...or good at it, but I got started.

I have only worked through the first few chapters but it seems to be a great resource.

Unfortunately this purchase was totally useless. MySpace.com has eliminated any customization that this book recommends. They totally forbids any such CSS and HTML customization that this book focuses on. I do not know if the author of this book is aware of that total change in policy by MySpace.com. When you log into MySpace.com it is nothing like the old days that this book obviously was written for. Myspace now has their own theme for customization and layouts that you "must" use to do any profile customization, CSS and HTML it is outlawed by their new as well. So please be warned you cannot use the method stated in this book anymore, therefore making the book totally obsolete in the site. I gave this feedback one star just because I wasted my money,technically may seem a little unfair to the author because he might not have known what was happening with the changes but on the other of the coin ,if he is truly dedicated as he stated in his book ,then should have been on top of what's taking place in the arena he is writing a book on as an expert.That is why I bought the book which is completely useless now.