Tutorials to Spice Up Your MySpace Site

John Parrott
You are probably using MySpace.com. If you are like me you have probably noticed how many MySpace pages are anything but bland. You may wonder how people managed to come up with all of the things they have on their site. I know I did, so I started looking for MySpace Tutorials

I should know after all these years, that when you look something up on the Internet, like in this case "MySpace Tutorials", you end up looking at thousands of sites to pick from that the search engine has decided are closely related to your query. Normally I find the first few are very closely related and the rest are less and less related. That makes the research effort not all that bad. I wasn't prepared for quite as many options as I saw for "MySpace Tutorials", all seeming to be a very close relative of what I wanted to know. Not wanting to make a career of looking at tutorial websites I knew I had to come up with a way to weed out a large number of sites.

Up until the time I decided I wanted to narrow the field of MySpace Tutorial sites, all I knew was I wanted an eye catching MySpace page. That was it. What to do? It came to me that if I were looking for my MySpace page to be an eye catcher I should look at MySpace Tutorials that came from web pages that were themselves eye catchers. That became my first priority in the selection process. Next I thought about what it was that I liked and disliked about other people's MySpace pages. The first thing that came to mind is lots of people have too much stuff on their page. So I knew I wanted to keep it simple. Next, and to support the "simple" theme, I knew whatever I added to the site had to be minimal, but it had to grab your attention.

So what is next in my thought process for weeding out a lot of the tutorial web sites? I would bring up a site, look at it very quickly to make sure it did or did not catch my eye. I would decide if it was too busy or did it stick with my "simple" theme. I would read a very few words. If those few words told me they could provide me with a tutorial I can benefit from and was really easy, I saved their site (temporarily) to my Favorites.

You can make your MySpace page anything you want, and way more than bland. You need to have a general idea of how you would like it to look. I decided on simple. Use a search engine like you probably do several times a day and get your list of MySpace Tutorials. Narrow the potential sites down by a quick look at the tutorial web site. If it doesn't do anything for you instantly, move on. Save the ones you are impressed with to your "Favorites". The next step is to bring up the sites you have saved to your "Favorites" and read just a few words, the ones that seem to jump out at you. When looking at the sites you like the most, you should very quickly see if they are easy to follow and use. The second hardest part is done, you found your perfect MySpace Tutorial. The hardest is deciding what the end result of your page is going to be exactly. Maybe your MySpace (and mine) will always be a work in progress.

Published by John Parrott

John Parrott is a retired Fire Chief currently living in Birch Run, Michigan. John graduated from Jackson High School and has degrees from Valencia Community College, Northwood University and University of...  View profile

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