Viewing Custom Images on MySpace

Using HTML Scripts to Link Images Stored on Photobucket Website

Apr 4, 2008 Harry P. Schlanger

Users of MySpace wishing to view their own Profile images can store images on a hosting site such as Photobucket, then link to them using generated HTML script.

Each MySpace user has his own default Profile image displayed on the page but may choose to "place" his own images in various sections of the Profile page, such as:

About Me
Interests
Who I’d Like To Meet
Anywhere else on the general page

Before users can do this, images to be viewed on MySpace need to be stored somewhere else on the Internet. Luckily, there are free Image Hosting websites available, such as Photobucket, which also creates HTML code to import into the MySpace Edit Profile page. The Photobucket website has been found to produce efficient results and is very popular among the MySpace community.

Steps to create the image code

1. Photobucket is a free signup. Figure 1 shows the user’s page opened at the “my album” tab.

2. To upload a single image stored on your computer (or use the Bulk Uploader to upload many files), click on the Browse button, select the file and when done, click on the upload button.

3. Add an image title, description and tag

4. Click on the “my album” tab to view the installed image thumbnail and click on it. A new page with a larger image will open up and the right hand menu will contain the HTML code for copying into MySpace (see Figure 2)

Steps to Transfer the HTML code into MySpace

1. Open your Edit Profile page on MySpace.

2. Copy the code shown in Figure 2, indicated by the red arrow and located under the heading, “HTML CODE – Websites and Blogs”

3. Paste into MySpace in the desired location.

Editing the HTML Code

Once the HTML code is imported into MySpace, parts of the code are not required. For example, shown circled in Figure 3a is the rollover effect (text appearing when the mouse is moved over the image) for the alt tag text “Photobucket”. This needs to be deleted, or changed to something suitable.

Another redundant inclusion in the HTML code is an image link, which causes anyone clicking on the image (now viewed in MySpace) to take them to the Photobucket website. This link is highlighted in red in Figure 3b and needs to be deleted.

This article features the Photobucket image hosting website for storing images that can be viewed from a MySpace Profile page. Once images are stored on Photobucket, simply copy and paste the generated HTML and paste into MySpace, in a location of choice.

Users who want to make their MySpace profile more unique may find Creating Unique Myspace Profiles helpful.

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Figure 1. Photobucket's My Album page