Amp Your Myspace Page: Essential Tools for Giving Your Profile an Extreme Makeover

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.

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!