Generally, “MySpaces” are fugly. We all know it, and many have chosen to not even use the site because of its poor aesthetics, messy functionality, and copy-cat approaches to usability and development.
While most of that cannot be changed, one site has developed a method to “hack” users’ profiles for them and install something a little less harmful on the eyes with a multiplitude of divs. Call it a kind of hack-my-profile-and-make-it-cleaner generator, or as they call it, a “Rubbur” layout.
I always find it somewhat funny how MySpace has to be hacked in order for it to look pretty, but when considering what’s actually happening there, this “hacking” is probably what delivered the site its success in the first place, ironically enough.
Most websites are made to be pretty from the start, but the MySpace approach – make it ugly so they make it pretty – seems to have worked well for them, by mistake or not, and continues to work as a type of virtual scrap book project.
Keeping your most recent nightmare of your last visit to the site (MySpace), observe the differences in layout structure here:
I suppose I’ll have to make one in time for the site, since I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
One of the most notable things here and why I’ve brought it up is its potential positive impacts for any businesses that have a MySpace profile.
With its ability to include your own background image and styling, businesses should take full advantage of this generator to apply their own style and image in this new type of design.
As far as the site itself is concerned, there are some neat features included, like the ability to move the different sections in different orders in an AJAX-like method and the ability to pick some neat widgets… Asteroids!!!
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