A Complete Guide including Tips & Tricks
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Simply go to http://spaces.msn.com and sign up!
1) Sign In then start editing your space.2) Customize your space.1)Change your space theme and choose one from the list.2)Add/Remove Modules from this list.3)Change the whole layout of your space from here.3)Start filling the modules; [blogs, photos, booklists, musiclists,.. etc]
A)Tips & Tricks for your space:Tip#1: Make your space publically viewable:1)Click on edit my space
2)Click on settings.
3)Click on the tap permissions4)choose the option: "Public" then click save.
Tip#2: Have more control on colors and themes:1)after signing in your space you will see and address like this in your browsers's window:
2)Erase everything could be after the "c="3)Copy the following code after the "=":4)Press ENTER on your keyboard.5)Click on Customize6)Go to Modules and you will find a new item has appeared in the menu.7)Click on PowerToy:Tweak UI and Save.8)You will find a new item has appeared in your page.9)Fill the boxes with the color codes you like, choose from here:10)Click Save.
Tip#3: Adding a Window Media Player to you Space:1)after signing in your space you will see and address like this in your browsers's window:
2)Erase everything could be after the "c="3)Copy the following code after the "="4)Press ENTER on your keyboard.5)Click on Customize6)Go to Modules and you will find a new item has appeared in the menu.7)Click on PowerToy:Window Media Player and Save.8)You will find a new item has appeared in your page.9)Type your music/video file address on the internet and click save.
- More Advanced Options:
This will enable you to add more than one song on your Space Media player.You can use to create a play list for both your audio and video files.
Open MS Notepad Copy and paste the code below into the notepad [Ctrl+c - Ctrl+v]
Replace NAME OF MUSIC LIST with the name of the Music list. [E.g. My Play list] Replace NAME OF MUSIC LIST & NAME OF ARTIST with what they say. Now replace THE URL OF THE MUSIC FILE with the URL of the song. You can host your songs on many hosting services and get it's URL or the www. address. I use File-Lodge . Also you can Google for videos or audio files already on the internet and get its URL. To add more songs to the play list , copy the code from <entry> to </entry> and made the necessary changes in the URL and Names of the song. For E.g.
Save the file [on the notepad] as mylist.mp3 or whatever type of file you put in the play list and choose All files as the type of file. [see picture below for a better understanding]
Upload this file "mylist.mp3" to a hosting service. After uploading , you will be provided with a URL address. Paste this address into the window media player module. make your Player mode to 'Full' Click Save. Done !!Note:
This method can be used to overcome the problem of long URL'ed songs not playing on Space media player. It is necessary that you carry out each step carefully. It worked for me and it should do for you to. Any easier than this and it will lose its essence. Mistakes are made while changing the code and problems in Hosting services
Tip#4: Adding a banner of HTML code in your page:1)after signing in your space you will see and address like this in your browsers's window:
2)Erase everything could be after the "c="3)Copy the following code after the "="
4)Press ENTER on your keyboard.5)Click on Customize6)Go to Modules and you will find a new item has appeared in the menu.7)Copy the following code and click save.8)You might want to change the image address to one of your own.
Tip#5: Increasing the number of custom lists:
The number of custom lists is limited and after a while you will not be able to add more lists. This is how you can increase the number of allowed lists. You have to do the following steps ACCURATLY or it will not work.1)Click on edit my space
2)Click the tab Lists in your space
3)leave the page open then come back here.4)Right click the following Link and choose (Add to Favourites).5)You will get an automatic warning message that it's unsafe and that's because it a java script not a website, click yes.6)Save it any where in your browser's "Favourits" menu.7)Go back to your space page and choose the "Add more 10 Custom Lists" from your favourits and you will get a pop up window.8)Type your list name and click OK.
Tip#6: Create a blank titled custom list or a blank space title:1)Enable Numlock First...2)Click on the Title input Box and hold down the Alt key and press 0173. [Alt + 0173] and click 'OK' , 'Yes' or 'Save' [Depends...]
You can make a Space without a title or a Custom list can be created with a Blank title and blank items.Note:-This Alt+0173 function can be used to give a blank title in anywhere on msn spaces where its required to enter a title or heading. Do not try it for blog entries as there will be no way to get into it to edit it as its totally blank.
Tip#7: Use MSN Alerts:The real value in MSN Alerts doesn’t come from any new website redesign, but instead can only come from the relevance and abundance of content that the service has to deliver alerts on.Recently its value has increased significantly as bloggers can now used Message Cast’s new Alerts Service to push notifications to non RSS aggregation savvy readers.
1)Go to http://www.messagecast.net and sign-up.
2)Add a new blog list part
3)In the welcome mail sent to you by Message Cast there will be an example block of HTML. Take out the HREF attribute value from the <a/> element and use this as your blog address.
4) Post the URL you copied in a new Custom List.
B)Tips & Tricks for blogging:Generally in the blogging area you can add text or HTML code, that means you can design what you want on an HTML editor and then post it later to your blog. nonetheless msn spaces removes some html tags for security reasons, but this won't be a problem anyhow.Tip#1: Adding a scroll bar to your blog entry:1)In a new blog click on the HTML tab and erase all codes.2)Copy the following code.3)Click on HTML tab again to go back4)Double click and post your entry inside the table.
Tip#2:Adding a flash to your blog entry:1)Repeat step#1 from tip#1.2)Copy the following code after changing flash file address.
Tip#3:Writing on a background picture in ur blog entry:1)Repeat step#1 from tip#1.2)Copy the following code after changing the picture address.3)Repeat step#3 from tip#1.4)Repeat step#4 from tip#1.
Tip#4:Playing music or voice in your blog entry:1)Repeat step# 1 from tip#1.2)Copy the following code after changing the music file address.3)Repeat step from tip#1.
Tip#5:Adding a degital clock with your timezone to your blog entry:1)Repeat step #1 from tip#1.2)Go to www.worldtimezone.com and know your timezone.3)Copy the following code after changing the timezone [GMT+0200].4)Repeat step#3 from tip#1.
Tip#6:Adding music/video in your blog entry:1)Repeat step #1 from tip#1.2)find somewhere to host your music/video file if they weren't.3)Copy the following code for adding music.
4)Change the music file address and the number of loops (how much do you want your music to be played). Type either infinite or -1 for it to play continually.5)Repeat step#3 from step#1
To stop the audio on your page, users can press the stop button in Internet Explorer or else press Escape on their keyboard.
Please tell them this if you intend on putting looping audio, otherwise they will likely get annoyed and never come back!6)Copy the following code for video.7)Change the video file address and the width & height.
The width and height controls are important in this case, you can get these by accessing the properties of a video both on your hard drive or on the internet. (Right Click the video - Properties) Note the border can be turned off by entering 0 as its value.8)Repeat step#3 from tip#1.