URGENT! Myspace Default Layout STYLESHEET!(open), how to make a stylesheet?!? HELP Options

[prettyxinpunkxo]

Click here for the layout stylesheet I think IS TOTALLY AWESOME!
2nd stylesheet i think is awesome!!!
3rd I THINK IS AWESOME!
^^^^^How do I make a stylesheet like hers, I know it took her a while, and I will spend all the time i can to make one that cool!

I have a stylesheet but it sucks, its to plain and simple unlike hers!
I DONT WANT TO JOCK! or STEAL HER STYLESHEET AND EDIT IT!
so how do i make one like that? Its absolutly awesome, and I have a layout site on myspace thats getting pretty big and I need some better layouts! other important info : I dont want to copy her 'style'

LISTEN UP! I posted a question like this and the answers didn't help! :[

-How do I first start with when making a stylesheet?
-How should it be organized so I know how to edit it later on?
-What kinda of HTML and CSS things should be used on these type of layouts?

maybe answers to those questions would help! PLEASE I BEG YOU! I realllllyyyy need to know this! Please answer!

[freeflow]

Moved to myspace support.

Just a BTW , none of your links work.

[digitalfragrance]

You might want to look at this list of Stylesheets:
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=84325

You can feel free to use and edit as you like - CreateBlog put it there as a resource for you.

[SharperMyspace]

I DONT WANT TO JOCK! or STEAL HER STYLESHEET AND EDIT IT!

IMO - It's not really stealing if you change the colors/pictures/demensions in the stylesheet.

I am POSITIVE no one writes a huge stylesheet from scratch. You copy a bunch of different codes, and put them together to form a big stylesheet.

I learned everything I know about Myspace HTML/CSS from looking at other people's codes and expirementing around.

I wouldn't care if someone took one of my stylesheets, as long as they changed the colors, images and stuff.


Remember, this is just my opinion...

[twodreamlovers]

-How do I first start with when making a stylesheet?
-How should it be organized so I know how to edit it later on?
-What kinda of HTML and CSS things should be used on these type of layouts?

the first question has already been answered.
for the second question, we can't really answer that. just organize it in a way that seems most beneficial to you. also, if you know the basic, you shouldn't have any problems editing it later on.
for the third question, everything that's resourceful (within the rules of course).

[FallintoMusic]

cynthia who made those layout actually has some codes on her page to bring the tables up and remove that space in interests :]

[S-Majere]

IMO - It's not really stealing if you change the colors/pictures/demensions in the stylesheet.

I am POSITIVE no one writes a huge stylesheet from scratch. You copy a bunch of different codes, and put them together to form a big stylesheet.

I learned everything I know about Myspace HTML/CSS from looking at other people's codes and expirementing around.

I wouldn't care if someone took one of my stylesheets, as long as they changed the colors, images and stuff.
Remember, this is just my opinion...

And your opinion breaches copyright.

I know for a fact that to begin with, half of my coding I used was from free resources, such as those available from Createblog, and the rest I coded myself.

If you take someone else's stylesheet without their consent, you are committing a civil offense - re copyright infringement. A stylesheet represents a creative work and is protected under all manner of electronic laws and 'netequitte'.

Never ever take codes without permission.

As you have already been linked to Createblog's free resources I won't link you again - but remember that you can always PM designers about their methods and codings to ask how things have been done (if they'll be kind enough to take the time to explain to you).

Remember also that there is never any quick fix to learning HTML, CSS or any other programming language and most designers who submit stylesheets for free use have been working on those codes for several years to get to the level of capability they're at.

[SharperMyspace]

I didn't say I steal other people's stylesheets. I said I learned off of them. Sorry if it came across wrong.

Say you are writing a research paper for school about tigers. You wouldn't travel to Africa and observe tigers for a year to learn everything you need for your paper. You would go online or read a book that someone wrote, and learn from that book.

Then when you go to write the paper, you use what you learned from other people. But you don't use it word for word, cause that is plagerism.

This just like how you wouldn't open notepad, and start writing a stylesheet from your memory. No one writes a website without looking at other resorces.

I would NEVER go to someone's code, and copy a section of it, and then paste it into one of my layouts. I wouldn't copy it directly, so that it still has the same colors and widths and font. That would be stealing. But if I were to look at the code, and see how it works, and then make my own code off of that code, that wouldn't be stealing (imo).

I do agree that it is stealing if you copy their code completly. But if you just look at it to see how things work, and then change it yourself, that doesn't seem like stealing to me.


And I don't really see how someone would care if you were learning off of their code.

[twodreamlovers]

This just like how you wouldn't open notepad, and start writing a stylesheet from your memory. No one writes a website without looking at other resorces.

uh...i do that...but that's beside the point. i see no point in looking at other people's codes. all you need to see is myspace's source. and once in a while you might google something up to find how to do marquee or stuff like that.

I do agree that it is stealing if you copy their code completly. But if you just look at it to see how things work, and then change it yourself, that doesn't seem like stealing to me.

you can look at it all you want but changing it? no. you should never change someone's stylesheet. you need to create one.

[SharperMyspace]

you can look at it all you want but changing it? no. you should never change someone's stylesheet. you need to create one.

I am not talking about the whole stylesheet!... I am talking about a few lines.

Like, say I wanted to know what element controled the name text (I didn't know CB had a tutorial on that). So I looked at the code of a layout, and saw that ".nametext" was the element that you use. So then I added a part to my stylesheet that used .nametext

grr no one understands what I am trying to say..

I am not copying a whole stylesheet. If I see something cool on a layout, I will look at the source and try to figure out how they did that. But I wouldn't copy the whole thing!

[twodreamlovers]

okay. chill. you do what you need to do as long as it's within the rules. we won't care then.

[S-Majere]

I think this is getting a bit off topic now.

To the original poster: PM me if you need this reopening.

Topic Closed.