So lets say you want to change a few things in your Myspace layout, and you don’t feel like visiting lovemyflash to copy and paste the whole code again. Some lovemyflash layout codes come with extra settings you can change within its URL. They are found after the "lovemyflash.swf" text. You may see lovemyflash.swf appear multiple times, this means that you have to change both codes afterwards in order to stay consistant. So lets take a look at an example code to make more sense of this.

data="http://www.lovemyflash.com/lovemyflash.swf?
layoutID=39&myurl=123456&ColorVR1=0x129DDD&ColorVR2=0xCC0000&CustomButton=Heart&themeID=82">
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
  <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
  <param name="movie" value="http://www.lovemyflash.com/lovemyflash.swf?
layoutID=39&myurl=123456&ColorVR1=0x129DDD&ColorVR2=0xCC0000&CustomButton=Heart&themeID=82" />

Lots of things going on here, but you can find this in your About Me Section. You can see that lovemyflash.swf shows up twice in this layout. The part you need to pay attention to is the ColorVR1, and the ColorVR2, which are both highlighted in Blue. Those are the color HTML values, you can change these colors by typing in a color code at those locations. You must make sure that ColorVR1 says the same color value for both parts, and Color VR2 says the same color Value for both parts. 

In the example above, it show ColorVR1=0x129DDD twice, and ColorVR2=0xCC0000 twice. Now you want to choose your own colors so first you should head over to this Color Website. You will see a ball and a bunch of colors you can slide to, Slide the ball and the arrow to chose your color. The HTML color value will show up in a white box above the slider arrow. This is what you will need when you place the color in your layout.

After you select a color, highlight the whole box, and right click and press CTRL+C. Go back to your Myspace Code and insert those colors into your layout. In the example below the colors I chose for ColorVr1 is 333333 and ColorVR2 is stil CC0000

data="http://www.lovemyflash.com/lovemyflash.swf?
layoutID=39&myurl=123456&ColorVR1=0x333333&ColorVR2=0xCC0000&CustomButton=Star&themeID=82">
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
  <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
  <param name="movie" value="http://www.lovemyflash.com/lovemyflash.swf?
layoutID=39&myurl=123456&ColorVR1=0x333333&ColorVR2=0xCC0000&CustomButton=Star&themeID=82" />

There you have it! Now you have just learned how to edit the code on your own. Guess what else you can chage?

data="http://www.lovemyflash.com/lovemyflash.swf?
layoutID=39&myurl=123456&ColorVR1=0×333333&ColorVR2=0xCC0000&CustomButton=Star&themeID=82">

The word Star tells the layout to show a picture of a star when you put your mouse over a number. You can change the word Star to the word Heart and it will show a picture of a heart instead. Remember since lovemyflash.swf shows up twice, you’ll have to change the word Star twice in order for it to work.

Whether your using a Flash Mp3 Player, or using Windows Media Player to play your mp3s, here are 7 places you can use to host your MP3s. Each site is different and have different restrictions.

OneDump

OneDump provides the easiest interface to upload Mp3s First Click on [Upload Audio] and Browse your computer to upload the MP3. After your done, the direct link to your  MP3 will be the last box. Copy And Paste this into whatever MP3 Player site your using.

Limitations:

Bandwith: Unlimited
Upload Size: 5mb each

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MinorCrisis

MinorCrisis is one of the new mp3 hosting sites specifically catering to hotlinking, and supplies an MP3 search.
First, Uncheck Share File. Click Browse and choose your MP3. Click Upload.

Limitations

Bandwith: 500MB a day
Upload Size: 5Mb *Unregistered || 50Mb *Registered   

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MailboxDrive

MailboxDrive‘s interface is a bit obnoxious and the steps it takes to get a file activated is silly.
First, Register by clicking Register Here on the right side. After you fill out your information, update your contact information Click on Upload Music Upload the song. Open your Email Activate the Song by going through the link in the email. Click Your Music The mp3 will be the numbers before Play Button. Right Click on the Link, and press Copy Shortcut.

Limitations: 

Bandwith: Unlimited?
Upload Size: 50mb

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FileAve

FileAve registration process is a bit strange as it sends you off to its sister website for no reason. If this happens to you just go back to fileave.com and login from there. First Register by clicking SignUp! Fill out your details. Log In! Click Files, Upload Files, Browse, and select your MP3 Click Upload and Click Files again Right Click on your MP3 File and press Copy Shortcut The direct link to your file is within the shortcut. If you want to quickly embed the file, click Get Codes for ways on how to put it on your website.

Limitations:

Bandwith: 1GB a Day
Upload Size: up to 50Mb

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SnapDrive

Similar but not as obnoxious as FileDen, SnapDrive allows users to instantly create a flash player they can put on myspace. Register First, then Click Add Files Click Upload, then Click My Files The Direct Link of the Mp3s can be found by clicking Edit next to the file name, then clicking URL. SnapDrive also hosts their own mp3 flash player which you can read about in their blog.

Limitations:

Bandwith: 500MB a day
Upload Size: 100MB

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Dizzler is too big for your myspace layout, and you want it smaller? Well, Dizzler doesn’t allow the option to resize through their music player page, but we can hack around that.

In order to change the size of Dizzler Music Player, take a look at the code

<embed src=http://player.dizzler.com/KmF8NDk1NzEx&ms=1
width=”500″ height=”350″ quality=”best” scale=”noborder” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” ></embed>

Do you see height, and width? These tell you how long and wide the player will be. So in order to make it smaller, change the value after height and width. A small Size would be height=”250″ width=”150″. Lets Change the Code of the Height and Width to “250″ x “150″

<embed  src=”http://player.dizzler.com/KmF8NDk1NzEx&ms=1″
width=”250” height=”150” quality=”best” scale=”noborder” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” ></embed>

Now we’re done! Now it should be small enough to fit in your layout, but you won’t be able to read it, but thats something you can’t fix.

I get so tired of all the lame, crappy, myspace layout sites out there. Most Myspace layout sites are either extremely hard to navigate or provide horribly designed crud only a mother would post on the fridge. So now we send in the experts at LoveMyFlash. LoveMyflash does a complete makeover on how sites are designed. Now instead of static pages full of glittery mess, we get a fluid motion page which focuses on the content. It takes about 2 big lines of code in the About Me section and the Who I’d Like to Meet section to add it to the page. One thing to remember is that you HAVE to add your myspace URL before you create the code, or else your page will have empty graphics and wrong information. MyFlash unfortunately doesn’t provide the code with shrinking picture sizes in the comments area. So instead  here’s a code you can put at the bottom of the Who I’d Like to Meet section so that your friend’s comments won’t mess up your layout.

Paste This Code at the Bottom of Who I’d Like to Meet Section

<style>   body table tr table tr td.text table tr td.text table tr td table tr td img {width:200px;}    body table tr table tr td.text table tr
td.text table tr td table tr td div img {width:80px; height:20px;}     body table tr table tr td.text table tr td.text table tr td table tr td
a img {width:100; height:auto;}       </style>

If you have any more suggestions to other high quality MySpace Layout sites, post a comment.

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MyFabrik is actually a storage site for files, images, and songs. However it also contains a small flash music player that you can play on Myspace It can load only one song at a time, but there’s a special way to get the tiny version of the music player onto your site.

First Log In, then click Music, then click Import. Select the song you want, and click Import. The next step is to click on the song you just uploaded and click embed. Here’s an Example

The Following Code is an example of MyFabrik’s Music Player

<div><embed src=”http://www.myfabrik.com/webapps/xspf_player.swf” mce_src=”http://www.myfabrik.com/webapps/xspf_player.swf” flashvars=”autoplay=true&autoload=true&info_button_text=myfabrik.com” width=”400″ height=”170″ quality=”high” scale=”noscale” salign=”b” wmode=”transparent” name=”fabrikaster” align=”middle” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” ></embed></div><div style=”font-size: 11px;”>Powered by <a class=”bmk_lnk” target=”_fabrik_” href=”http://www.myfabrik.com” mce_href=”http://www.myfabrik.com”>www.myfabrik.com</a></div>

Ok now to get the small flash player, copy and paste your embed code that you recieved from the site into notepad. You will then change these areas that I have listed below.

Find the section below in your notepad:

http://www.myfabrik.com/YOURUSERNAME/xspf_player.swf

Change it to this:

http://www.myfabrik.com/YOURUSERNAME/xspf_player_slim.swf

Now change the width and the height to:

width=”200″ height=”15″

Change salign to the letter L as below:

salign=”l”

Once you do this you will now have a tiny flash music player you can put on myspace or other services.