The Big Noob

UPDATE: This hack was unfortunately blocked by MySpace shortly after it was released. This article made the front page of digg.com with over 1800 diggs. For info on how to customize your MySpace profile, check out Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace by Mike Davidson.

This post contains information that exploits MySpace and is against their terms of use. I am not responsible if your MySpace profile gets deleted, are sentenced to life in wonderland, or any other resulting action. Please do not ask me to provide technical support for any of the code presented.

Anybody still reading? Good. Check out my profile on MySpace.

The other night, I couldn't sleep (probably too much coffee), so I decided to tweak out my profile on MySpace. The goal was to completely hide everything on MySpace (including the ads), and replace it with something much cooler...and more pink. This, of course, did not come easy. Here are a few of the obstacles I had to overcome:

1. Hiding the iFrame which contains the ads (any CSS to hide iFrames is blocked)
2. Positioning the new site at the very top of the page.
3. Getting rid of the horizontal scroll bar after the CSS was applied.
4. Hide existing comments so there isn't whitespace at the bottom of the page.

Here is the CSS that needs to be copy and pasted into the "About Me" section of your MySpace profile. In the CSS the margin-left on .main, and .main table is half of the total width, and is a negative integer. For instance, if your width was 500px, margin-left would be -250px.

Here is the HTML that needs to be copy and pasted into the "I'd Like To Meet" section of your MySpace profile. You can replace the "INSERT YOUR SITE HERE" with your own HTML. Keep in mind that you CANNOT use id= on your divs because MySpace blocks them. Use class= instead.

This code was tested in Safari, Firefox, and IE 6. My final words of wisdom are to implement all of the code in "Safe Mode" so that you don't screw up your profile.

Have fun, add me as a friend, and link up your tweaked profile in the comments.