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- SiggiSim, on 10/12/2007, -18/+181Beautiful design. I would actually use myspace if it looked something like this.
- SeppukuBLUE, on 10/12/2007, -16/+147The layout's is great yes, but it doesn't hide the fact that MySpace isn't a great website. It's still the giant, ball of a website we've all grown to hate. Sadly, I use it daily.
- WildTang3nt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+135Sorry to abuse the comment system, but no new design will ever come to Myspace for the simple fact that it's already too far gone to be saved. EVERY Myspace user has some horrible code in their profile page, they all look like *****. Ya... you could fix the main page, but profile pages will always be ***** up unless Myspace goes and resets everyones' styles, which of course is never going to happen. One of those "would-be-nice-if-they-did-it-but-too-bad-they-won't" things unfortunately.
- ckohler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+98Looks nice but the problem isn't with the homepage. The problem lies with MySpace giving its vast majority of design-ignorant end users too much creative control over the look of their pages. Every time I visit a MySpace page, I feel like I've stumbled upon a webpage from 1997.
- ScottTheRobot, on 10/12/2007, -49/+127anyone else sick of web 2.0? it's like: insert gradient background here, drop shadow there... it's really not that impressive.
i don't know if creating a better looking myspace.com homepage in photoshop is really worth the self congratulations. - carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+76It's like putting a pretty bow on a pile of dog *****.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -12/+60Stop bitching about this web 2.0 crap. Websites are getting prettier, deal with it.
- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43*Working on a (horribly difficult) Greasemonkey*
- omenmedia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Michael Jackson was once the most popular male pop artist in the world, and now... well, just look at him. Hey MySpace kinda resembles his face!
- Exploited, on 10/12/2007, -7/+43I did not mean to reply here.
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Your profile is private. Genius.
- chrispen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Ahh, 1997 the good old days, when no one knew better.
- CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34But oh the cruel irony of having a great homepage and watching 14 year old's butcher it with cheap javascript and CSS hacks...
- creep303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22If _I_ could redesign myspace, it would be a single 404.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22good luck with that javascript.
- lintsniffer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21It's just stereotypically web 2.0.
If I redesigned myspace, I'd make it actually work without 400 different bugs in it each day.
I'll admit the site does look like it was created back in 95. - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Ok the bloggy web 2.0 look with rounded corners and such is starting to look REALLY old. It wouldn't be so bad if 90% of the contemporary websites didn't use it. Look, it was an improvement at first because it was original and easier on the eyes. Now that it is no longer original, it would be great to move on. Why do all the good websites have to look the same?
- jonmlm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20of course, rounded corners. obviously what every website redesign needs
- SteveRogers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Your MySpace is a perfect example of how, no matter how good you make the site look, people will ***** it up to no end in an attempt to be unique.
- Xageroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21@WildTang3nt, that's not thinking very creatively. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to say "Keep your profile the way it is now, or convert it to our new fancy smancy profile editor". old profiles use old code. new profiles use new.
- duzytata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16If I have to highlight text to read it I close out of the page and move on.
- rtimmons, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I believe I may have a solution...
index.php:
?php header("Location: http://facebook.com/"); ? - WildTang3nt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17@Xageroth: I had thought of that actually, but come on... this is the Myspace crowd we're talking about here. Do you honestly think any of them will keep the new system once they see it messes up their "perfect" profile? "Liek OMG! this is all messd up screw this! kthxby"
- Warpling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18This is why I am on facebook. It may not be as colorful as your amazing concept, but it follows web 2.0 and changing, and advancing ages beyond myspace rapidly.
Did I mention myspaces enless commenting on profiles? - TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Beautiful design. I would actually use myspace if it looked something like this."
The front end of a website is one thing, Id hope they redesigned the backend first before they attempted anything this ambitious. I would rather have a site work properly than it look like butter and it not work at all. In Myspace's case it looks like ***** and their network is the worse I've ever used. - benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13dude, digg's hated myspace since way before it was cool, and it was cool to hate myspace before news corp bought it. digg is the original myspace hate club.
- NatalieMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I have to tell you ... MySpace seems determined to hold on to their god-awful design.
I live mere miles from their office and me and several others I know who are excellent designers or programmers have applied for the "design" and "programmer" positions they are constantly advertising on monster, and none of us has even gotten an interview.
My programmer friend told the MySpace person who called to chat to her that she was interested in working with more "ajax-style" applications, and he had no idea what she was talking about and said he'd call her back after talking to rest of the programming team. Yeah, she never heard from them again. - moudig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8To improve MySpace they can do the following things:
- ban auto-playing music and video
- ban custom template - colors and background image
And maybe a few other bans. - Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9a0me: I actually prefer Web 2.0 to the alternative and I am fairly sure that I'm not the only one. Instead of having to learn how to navigate each unique site design you're able to easily pick up each Web 2.0 website as the majority of them conform to simple design ideas. The look is easy to bare and since there's generally a lot of white on the page it's much easier to read and it doesn't carry any sort of depressing looks (too many dark colours on websites with white text get me down for some reason.)
Web 2.0 is a great thing, to me it appears to be about making websites easier to navigate, read and use. The fact that they all look similar is great when you look at the alternative; having to learn how to use each website on the Internet they may have it's own unique way of showing information is really annoying for me in a lot of cases.
I think this post lacks some clarity, but trying to explain all of the advantages I see in web 2.0 would take too long. Suffice to say it's far better than the alternatives available at the moment, so long as the colours are nice and bright it's fantastic :) - boldfacelies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6unrealistic by far. ads are placed to far away from user focus points. also, not enough ads. finally, needs more cow bell.
- tatltat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12apparently you need to be a "featured profile" to have a good site.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=1456240 - MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree with everyone here... MySpace isn't ugly on it's home page... it's the USERS who completely ***** up their own pages.
I check MySpace every few days or so, to check messages and stuff. It's not that bad.
BUT, as soon as I click on a friend to send them a comment... BAM, I'm hit with multiple songs and/or videos, glittery graphics, mile-long surveys that shove their comments a mile below... etc.
Facebook did it right... all the same networking features of MySpace... messaging, photos, etc... but they kept the interface clean and un-customizable. Bland? Maybe... but it gets the job done well.
MySpace doesn't need a facelift... they need to stop letting their users pretend to be designers. :) - duzytata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6rchtr, aside from dedicating 30 hours a week for homework and taking 21 credit hours a semester for Pharmacy School, I'm lucky if I have fifteen minutes to take a break and check up on Digg let alone learn HTML and CSS. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a report to finish.
- dhbanes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=myspace.com&site1=&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=max&size=Medium&url=myspace.com
!= slowly dying - pronouncable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4These MySpace stories bring out the best in people.
/isafad - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not enough in-your-face ads.
- tatltat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i should be able to change my colors, backgrounds etc. through myspace, not by spending all my time searching for layouts. that is an absolute joke.
- matthistory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Looks waaay better, now if only they could speed up the service along with a better interface.
- jayfarer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No. It's ugly on it's homepage.
Not as bad as it's users, but look at it. It's an old mess. Tiny links everywhere, every other box being an ad of some sort, very plain imagery. It only gets worse when you log in. Navigating for the first time shouldn't take so long to figure out. - dotdan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5However, that would only output text on MySpace's servers.
- a0me, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11Difficult choice.
1) Eye-bleeding design from the late 90's
or
2) Uninventive and overused Web 2.0 look
By the way does anyone know who exactly started this whole Web 2.0 school of web design? - mrynit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3needs more ads for hot lonely singles near you
- drapelyk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would use my MySpace if they used a design like this and quit letting people modify their own HTML...
- nick111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The whole point of Myspace is that it looks utterly shambolic. If it looked all neat and cutesy with nice rounded corners etc, it would be crap.
It's teenagers, it's bad haircuts, it's Kelly Osbourne and a million fat goths from the suburbs - all writing bad poetry and listening to complaint-rock. The reason myspace works is that it's the closest thing you can get to vandalism on the web without being a computer geek and not having a life.
Anybody who thinks that youth culture needs to conform to a web 2.0 makeover really needs to read Fear and Loathing again. - ucg1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The problem with MySpace isn't just the sucky visual design (and the fact they allow users to make their profile suck even more), its also the incompetent staff they have running the backend of the site. I understand that running a website that is hugely popular is a challenge, but just read this article to discover what kind of clueless morons are running this MySpace: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp
- rofflcopterr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i stopped wishing upon a myspace a long time ago and took part in the Virb beta. can't believe i got virb.com/tim! go get one and CSS your heart out!
edit: i see there are fellow virb-ers out there! glad to see we're fellow diggers, too! - benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i just canceled my myspace account and linked to this thread in the comments
not that it will do anything... - loconet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here is what I would wish to see
http://myspace.com/~gone - andreas1999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OT. Does anyone actually believe spiders won't be able to pick this up, "RubbaJP at hotmail.com"? I'm pretty sure they spammers figured that one out already..
- doubleblack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now may I suggest making a "prototype" Myspace Profile design, and make it in CSS code or something...so we can actually use it?
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