Hi5: A Guide to Customizing Layout and Backgrounds, Using Codes & More

Hi5 is a social networking site where users can get in touch with people through their profile.

The concept of Hi5 is very much like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster etc. You go to www.hi5.com, create an account and fill in your personal information. You can upload pictures and slideshows, get a hi5 music player, connect with others through comments and emails, get your own layouts as well as backgrounds, and meet many other hi5 users.

How to create a hi5 account is very simple. Go to hi5, put in your email, your desired username and password, and confirm the email they send you. If you don't want the entire world to see your profile, you must mark your hi5 profile to private.

After this you can customize your profile with hi5 layouts, hi5 profile backgrounds, hi5 music player and so on. The more information you put in your hi5 profile, the more likely you are to draw attention to yourself.

There are many places where you can get layouts and backgrounds for your hi5 page. Google "hi5 layouts", or "hi5 backgrounds" and pick one that you like. You can change this whenever you want, so in theory you can change your layout every day.

If you Google "hi5 comments" you can find HTML codes that you can use to give your friends a variety of cool-looking hi5 comments. To put in the hi5 comments, you find the HTML code and paste it in the hi5 comment box.

Besides comment codes, you can find numerous other features to add to your hi5 profile page by Googling "hi5 codes". You can change the cursor on your page, change colors, get special characters, move items around on your profile page, and so on. A good place to find these codes is on the hi5 code site www.hi5-codes.com.

For some background information, Hi5 was launched in 1996, and has become an enormous success. It's currently at and Alexa ranking #8, and by the end of 2007 had over 98 million users. The founder of Hi5 is Ramu Yalamanchi, and the owner is currently Sona Networks.

As with any social networking site it's important to be careful with the kind of information you put in your profile. This is especially true for kids, who very often act immensely naïve in thinking every hi5 friend is a real friend. Only approving hi5 friends you know in real life, or not putting down personal information such as hometown, age, name etc. limits these dangers.

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