Making a Band Layout, Version 2 Options

[YDG]

MySpace Band Layout Tutorial

Welcome to Version 2 of the Band Layout Tutorial! This tutorial will help you out in making those professional looking layouts that graphic designers are making for these rising bands. A lot of people are getting into this kind of thing, and resources for Band Layouts are very slim, so I hope this topic helps anyone out that needs the help and resources.

Rules:

• Do not spam this thread.
• Please look through other posts to see if a problem similar to yours is resolved.
• If you see a broken link, unavailable screenshot, or non-working code, please report it to me.
• If you are having any trouble, feel free to ask in here or PM me.
• If you leave me a PM, please give me a week to reply before sending me more PM's.
• If you have any requests for my tutorial, please post in this topic.

Table of Contents:

1. Getting Started
2. Changing the Look & Feel
3. Adding a Top Banner
4. Slicing Images
5. Working With Image Rollovers
6. Creating A Custom Left Side
7. Adding Headers
8. Moving Blogs to the Left Side
9. Adding a Shows Header
10. Finishing Up
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11. Frequently Asked Questions

[YDG]

i kind of been making my own, and after testing a few sizes, 800 seems to be the best width. the height of course depends on how much content youre putting in between everything.
to be more specific, the image im working on is 2240 wide, including the background. i think thats probably a good place to start. ive dabbled a little bit before but never have made a full blown pro-coded page, which is waht im working on.

so try making a new document 2240x 500 or so to start and work your way through. but be sure when you slice later that you make a new doc of just 800x500, and the background is its own seperate file.

definitely start with understanding everything thats on top of the player itself and leave the extra stuff for later. ive gone and looked through about 30 pro myspaces between last night and today and using A1Bassline's stuff as a reference, ive really pulled stuff together (coding wise).
EDIT:

so heres what i got after more playing. i basically stole to code from paramores myspace ( www.myspace.com/paramore ) using bassline's stuff as a reference, and rebuilt the table they had in photoshop/notepad with my own little design for learning purposes. and i gotta thank bassline for the first post.

live page (will stay this way until i fix the space at the bottom): http://www.myspace.com/thesnowpirates


code (put in influences, i put a couple comment tags in there to let you know whats what w/ the css)

some stuff gets repeated, and some stuff probably isnt neccessary. i hope this helps anyone else. the only thing i cant figure out, and it happens on paramores myspace as well, is why there is so much extra space at the bottom under the comments. anyone have any ideas?

That's because you aren't using my codes, like I suggested and recommended. I recommended you stuck with my codes so problems like this didn't have to be dealt with. The body table code was used and that creates a big space at the bottom.

whats the width and height of the music player?

425px wide
345px high

Er...I'm having a bit of trouble on the custom left side thing, I'm not too good with dimensions and honestly this is my first time coding, so what are good dimensions? Like an example?

In my tutorial, I said 325px is the best width. Height doesn't matter. Just set the height in the div layer to autopx. That's what I do.