Designing a myspace site

jauernis · March 10th, 2012, 08:52 PM

Saw this today and would like to imitate this to a certain extent. Can anyone direct me to tutorials etc on how to create a design like this? What programs would I need to purchase to create that? I would consider this as learning from scratch

The green and black is what I would like to imitate but just come up with a different design

http://www.myspace.com/veilofmaya#!

jauernis · March 10th, 2012, 08:57 PM

Think I found a few already...mods can delete if you want...sorry

Axonic Rot · March 10th, 2012, 09:11 PM

It's all 2007 in here.

TaylorG · March 10th, 2012, 09:33 PM

Myspace is still a thing?

JeffTD · March 10th, 2012, 10:02 PM

Don't bother with Myspace. It's a dead site and should be treated as such.

Cacoph0ny · March 10th, 2012, 10:22 PM

dont waste your time. ANYTIME I search a new band I will choose their facebook over myspace 100% of the time. myspace crashes my fucking browser more than any other site.

although the facebook music player is still pretty shit and unreliable. i dont get why these websites cant code a good music player like mixpod.

Mishbang · March 10th, 2012, 11:06 PM

I really was expecting this to be a necrothread

I remember designing an amazing theme for my band back when myspace was still a thing, then the layout broke after some update and I never bothered trying to fix it lol. Still, I wouldn't worry too much about it, the default is good enough for the amount of people that will go to it (not that many if you have facebook)

StefTD · March 11th, 2012, 04:43 AM

myspace is that dead, it won't even return as a zombie...
better getting yourself a facebook page (with timeline, so you can use nice and large pics

) use some good tabs
and actually think more about the stuff you write instead of how the page looks, more important, keep it running
and just get your name out through different networks.
working on a few different facebook pages and social media things in general, but there's no way I would do anything
on myspace again, last time I checked my account was like 2 years ago...

Sloan · March 11th, 2012, 11:49 AM

TheDriller · March 11th, 2012, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StefTD

... actually think more about the stuff you write instead of how the page looks, more important, keep it running
and just get your name out through different networks.

This deserves to be reiterated.
The days of relying on a slick looking profile to sell your band/brand are dead and gone. Today it's all about the content.

Your followers don't want to be browsing a social-network site and have their eyes blown out by a different "flashy" design on every page, hence the appeal of Facebook. All that gaudy 2006 era stuff is sidelined in favour of content and actual connection with the audience.

SocialNumb · March 11th, 2012, 12:22 PM

tl;dr Everyone is mad at you for choosing myspace's ancient scripture.

scorpio01169 · March 11th, 2012, 03:52 PM

A little of topic..but yet a little on topic, I have been working on my website for Independent labled bands and unsigned bands and would like you guys imput on it, Im still working on it and as soon as I can get more video's I'll be having an hour long video show of unsigned and indie labeled bands in the video's section of the video's page....check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.themetallab.webs.com

Russtopher · March 11th, 2012, 07:15 PM

Surprisingly, MySpace's traffic is up and they've had over 1 million new signups since December.

I don't think it means much in the long run, the days of spending hours on MySpace and reading bulletins and adding bands are long gone, but you don't want to completely ignore it either. Their interface now is garbage and dog slow, I'm rarely there, but I get messages and friend requests still so I pop in every now and again. For a band, it doesn't make sense to not be there... nor does it makes sense to drop a lot of time/money into it either.

Sloan · March 11th, 2012, 09:17 PM

^agreed.

myspace was the most useful shit ever.

JeffTD · March 11th, 2012, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Russtopher

Surprisingly, MySpace's traffic is up and they've had over 1 million new signups since December.

I don't think it means much in the long run, the days of spending hours on MySpace and reading bulletins and adding bands are long gone, but you don't want to completely ignore it either. Their interface now is garbage and dog slow, I'm rarely there, but I get messages and friend requests still so I pop in every now and again. For a band, it doesn't make sense to not be there... nor does it makes sense to drop a lot of time/money into it either.

I disagree. Ranking wise, they're at 158 globally and 108 in the US (and slipping). Only 31% of their traffic is US-based, and their runner-up is India at 8%. A band is way better off being on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, or Tumblr than bothering with MySpace.

Russtopher · March 12th, 2012, 11:51 AM

You can disagree all you like; the numbers are indeed up and continuing to grow.

Again - it'll never be the powerhouse it once was. But it makes no sense to ignore it either, especially now that it's been making efforts to rebrand itself as a music discovery site. I'd never recommend investing a lot of time/money into it, just having a presence with tracks and recent news is enough for a band.

scorpio01169 · March 12th, 2012, 12:01 PM

Most of my band friends on Myspace have a last log-in avg of 2009

Mishbang · March 12th, 2012, 02:23 PM

crillemannen · March 12th, 2012, 02:31 PM

THe problem with all these sites is that they try to improve an already perfect design. They did it with myspace = killed it.
Now they are doing it with facebook with the fucking ridiculous timeline.

Just keep it simple and clean and easy to use.

JeffTD · March 12th, 2012, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crillemannen

THe problem with all these sites is that they try to improve an already perfect design. They did it with myspace = killed it.
Now they are doing it with facebook with the fucking ridiculous timeline.

Just keep it simple and clean and easy to use.

YMMV - timeline fucking rules.

Öwen · March 12th, 2012, 09:19 PM

Timeline sucks for band pages - scrolling posts on the wall is so much hassle now, nothing looks quite sure where its meant to be and its pretty fucking sketchy in general, been using it for a few weeks on my personal profile and now their system seems to have lost half my facebook history.

AdamWathan · March 12th, 2012, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeffTD

YMMV - timeline fucking rules.

We can't be friends anymore.

JeffTD · March 12th, 2012, 09:52 PM

I've not used it on a band or group page yet but I love it for personal profiles. The check-in map addition is pretty sweet, as well.

StefTD · March 13th, 2012, 07:28 AM

Timeline rocks

I love you Jeff! (looking at our Nick's-we're already married...)

Using timeline on 3 pages I admin atm, I am digging it alot for pages, you can use it as a band history
thing, better way to integrate your design things through the larger pics, easier to work with (after
you got used to it, took me 10 minutes) and you're able to completly delete old posts (like you're drummer
posting about fucking that ugly girl once after a show).
The only thing that bothered me in the beginning were the custom tabs, but even this stuff starts to
work now.

March 10th, 2012, 08:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
jauernis Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Frisco, CA Posts: 801	Designing a myspace site Saw this today and would like to imitate this to a certain extent. Can anyone direct me to tutorials etc on how to create a design like this? What programs would I need to purchase to create that? I would consider this as learning from scratch The green and black is what I would like to imitate but just come up with a different design http://www.myspace.com/veilofmaya#! __________________ Cheverie http://www.myspace.com/pieceofcheverie "Common sense is not so common." Voltaire "When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. " Cantona

March 10th, 2012, 08:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
jauernis Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Frisco, CA Posts: 801	Think I found a few already...mods can delete if you want...sorry __________________ Cheverie http://www.myspace.com/pieceofcheverie "Common sense is not so common." Voltaire "When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. " Cantona

March 10th, 2012, 09:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
TaylorG Teh Groove Metuhl Join Date: May 2010 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 248	Myspace is still a thing? __________________ Good rates, good returns.

March 10th, 2012, 10:02 PM	#5 (permalink)
JeffTD Ballclap Supremus Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Posts: 10,952	Don't bother with Myspace. It's a dead site and should be treated as such. __________________ Arcana Recordings

March 11th, 2012, 11:49 AM	#9 (permalink)
Sloan Sounds like shit! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cleveland, TN Posts: 4,466	WAT __________________ SloanZone Audio \| SloanStewart \| Strayfire \| 40oz. Folklore Yamaha HS80M / Audio Technica ATH-M50

March 10th, 2012, 09:11 PM	#3 (permalink)
Axonic Rot Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 113	It's all 2007 in here.

March 10th, 2012, 10:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
Cacoph0ny Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 504	dont waste your time. ANYTIME I search a new band I will choose their facebook over myspace 100% of the time. myspace crashes my fucking browser more than any other site. although the facebook music player is still pretty shit and unreliable. i dont get why these websites cant code a good music player like mixpod.

March 10th, 2012, 11:06 PM	#7 (permalink)
Mishbang MB Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: In the studio Posts: 29	I really was expecting this to be a necrothread I remember designing an amazing theme for my band back when myspace was still a thing, then the layout broke after some update and I never bothered trying to fix it lol. Still, I wouldn't worry too much about it, the default is good enough for the amount of people that will go to it (not that many if you have facebook)

March 11th, 2012, 03:52 PM	#12 (permalink)
scorpio01169 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 1,124	A little of topic..but yet a little on topic, I have been working on my website for Independent labled bands and unsigned bands and would like you guys imput on it, Im still working on it and as soon as I can get more video's I'll be having an hour long video show of unsigned and indie labeled bands in the video's section of the video's page....check it out and let me know what you think. http://www.themetallab.webs.com __________________

March 11th, 2012, 07:15 PM	#13 (permalink)
Russtopher Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Dartmouth, MA Posts: 673	Surprisingly, MySpace's traffic is up and they've had over 1 million new signups since December. I don't think it means much in the long run, the days of spending hours on MySpace and reading bulletins and adding bands are long gone, but you don't want to completely ignore it either. Their interface now is garbage and dog slow, I'm rarely there, but I get messages and friend requests still so I pop in every now and again. For a band, it doesn't make sense to not be there... nor does it makes sense to drop a lot of time/money into it either. __________________ http://www.facebook.com/tideofempire - Free 4 song EP link here

March 11th, 2012, 09:17 PM	#14 (permalink)
Sloan Sounds like shit! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cleveland, TN Posts: 4,466	^agreed. myspace was the most useful shit ever. __________________ SloanZone Audio \| SloanStewart \| Strayfire \| 40oz. Folklore Yamaha HS80M / Audio Technica ATH-M50

March 12th, 2012, 11:51 AM	#16 (permalink)
Russtopher Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Dartmouth, MA Posts: 673	You can disagree all you like; the numbers are indeed up and continuing to grow. Again - it'll never be the powerhouse it once was. But it makes no sense to ignore it either, especially now that it's been making efforts to rebrand itself as a music discovery site. I'd never recommend investing a lot of time/money into it, just having a presence with tracks and recent news is enough for a band. __________________ http://www.facebook.com/tideofempire - Free 4 song EP link here

March 12th, 2012, 12:01 PM	#17 (permalink)
scorpio01169 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 1,124	Most of my band friends on Myspace have a last log-in avg of 2009 __________________

March 12th, 2012, 02:23 PM	#18 (permalink)
Mishbang MB Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: In the studio Posts: 29

March 12th, 2012, 02:31 PM	#19 (permalink)
crillemannen Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,801	THe problem with all these sites is that they try to improve an already perfect design. They did it with myspace = killed it. Now they are doing it with facebook with the fucking ridiculous timeline. Just keep it simple and clean and easy to use. __________________ - studiohaga.net Facebook

March 12th, 2012, 09:19 PM	#21 (permalink)
Öwen Fendurr Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,040	Timeline sucks for band pages - scrolling posts on the wall is so much hassle now, nothing looks quite sure where its meant to be and its pretty fucking sketchy in general, been using it for a few weeks on my personal profile and now their system seems to have lost half my facebook history.

March 12th, 2012, 09:52 PM	#23 (permalink)
JeffTD Ballclap Supremus Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Posts: 10,952	I've not used it on a band or group page yet but I love it for personal profiles. The check-in map addition is pretty sweet, as well. __________________ Arcana Recordings