Work in progress

Visting http://www.MySpace.com/corporateantihero I discover that the page looks, well, corporate. I am pleased to note that I am still in my own extended network though.

I decide to browse some other profiles for inspiration. I start with my one friend, Tom, and helpfully he's left a link to a tutorial. This takes me to

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=812799

which does indeed look useful. One thing gets my attention though - "Although these codes are meant for those who are more experienced with coding, they can easily be learned and applied by anyone who should read my FAQ"

Hmm. Is the world really full of teenagers desperately learning how to write CSS?

Pretty soon though following the links on Mack's page takes me off the MySpace site and onto another one. It gives me a 404. A bit of clicking later and I am confronted with the horrible truth.
If you want to make your page look good you have to write a whole stylesheet worth of stuff into your About Me text.

I cannot believe how much they managed to sell this for.

Still, the corporateantihero doesn't have time to spend on much of this stuff. Mack's black and grey template is stylish enough for me. I take it. The W3C validator tells me my profile page contains a staggering 168 errors, and looking at them I suspect a lot of them are nothing to do with the stuff I've just cut and pasted from Mack.

Still, site pimped it's time to start blogging.