bloody myspace
If anyone knows how to set the padding on a profile box on a myspace music page (the table differs from that of a normal myspace page, that much I know) without fecking up all the other boxes, please for the love of god share it with me cos I've been hacking the fuck out of the damn page all evening and the 'genre' line of text is annoying the hell out of me and I refuse to go to bed until it's fixed. And I'm hungover.

And IE6 is shit. As is all IE. Damn inconsistency bollix.

Oh, um, hi. Hope you're all fluffeh and lovleh. Bah.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 23:48, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You don't need MySpace
You just need a UNIX shell account on a machine running an HTTP daemon.

Web 1.0 FTW!

But seriously, I haven't used myspace myself. Just about every myspace page I've seen looks like it was designed by a 7 year old kid, and from what I've heard, even the most determined CSS hackers can't make a decent looking Myspace page.

This is what happens when someone tries to make something simple for the masses.

Re IE: The IE screwup should be a hint to switch to Firefox.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 0:03, Reply)

I presume
That you are using IE in order to make sure it works in IE as well as Firefox.

If you get your hands on the code for the page profile, you could try putting in spacers. The code for them appears in most things, like your b3ta profile page. Can stick some in and see how it goes.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 0:08, Reply)

thanks guys
Yeah, it's more how I reference the page elements than how I fix it. It's the worst interface I've seen in a long time and the CSS is atrocious.

I am indeed a Firefox user, but as PoD guessed these things need to be tested on as many browsers as possible.

It's not MySpace for me - I'm doing a page for me bloke. In the time it has taken me to put together a page that doesn't make my eyes bleed I could've done him an entire web site from scratch. Still, musicians need their myspace. But I'll be buying him a domain name pretty damn soon.

Web 2.0 got me 3K worth of grant money so I am slightly grateful for user-driven content. Only slightly.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 0:20, Reply)

Another thing I don't like about MySpace users
is that they've been known to hotlink images from my website and leech my bandwidth. Was tempted to replace the images with Goatse.

Re working on IE: When doing stuff for myself, I have a rule that as long as the content is accessible and not rendered unreadable in any way, I won't make much of an effort to fix it for broken CSS implementations.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 0:36, Reply)

aye
I doubt the default MySpace page is anywhere near accessible, so I'm not going to worry about fixing the one I'm doing. Not yet anyway. I'll save the decent stuff for the proper site.

I hate that "just one more tweak" mode that seems to happen around midnight when you've spent the day refreshing the damn page for every tiny little fix. Argh! I've run out of diet coke and I've eaten 2 bars of chocolate, so that's my hangover/geek diet complete. Bed time.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 0:45, Reply)

feck it
I can't be arsed fiddling with it anymore.
This is the site, and if anyone knows how I can indent that pesky genre ('Acoustic / Blues / Jazz ' line) by 2px without breaking anything, let me know. It should be simple. It hasn't proved simple. But hey, I have no hangover today, woo!
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 10:58, Reply)