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Spice up your MySpace with a great looking layout
The days of having to know how to code HTML or flash to get an amazing free MySpace layouts (or website for that matter) are over! Forget coding and constraining templates. This article shares tips on a new fast & easy way to create your own MySpace layout!

Create your own layout from scratch
Now that you can avoid the whole coding-technical process and still get an awesome design you have all this extra time on your hands… Once you’ve logged in (it’s free to register with Wix if you haven’t already) you’re ready to get started and create your own free  MySpace layout. Choose the blank layout and click “edit”. It’s as simple as that…of course it helps if you have some ideas about the design. So here are some tips to creating your own layout from scratch:

Express yourself with MySpace comments
Whether you want to send out a comment as a way to socialize, for networking or marketing, here these simple tips will help get your MySpace Comments seen, loved - and forwarded! Too often I see people forwarding the same comment with the same messages and images. I challenge you to do something different! Why? Because I know if you spend a bit of time on designing comments you’ll be miles ahead of the rest! I’ve put together these simple tips to help you get started.

Design your Website like a pro

So what if you can't even draw with crayons? Wix is making it easier for anyone to design brutally beautiful websites. These tips will guide you on your path as a young website designer. By the end of this journey, your designs will become a main attraction.

Your Quick Guide to Writing Killer Content

Quality content is probably the most important thing a website should have. Without it, your site is pretty much doomed. What makes content so major and how can you make sure your content is prime stuff? Read these guidelines and the rest will follow.

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Design Fundamentals for Novice Web Publisher - By Robin Good

If you are ready to start designing the "look" of your first web site or blog here are my specific recommendations on how to move in this direction. What I am going to tell you is not a collection of tips collected here and there and assembled again for you here. What I am going to suggest to you is a radical, no-frills approach to web site design that I have developed over my own experience as a professional web publisher and as a strategic communication adviser for many online brands.

Manage your online presence - by Walter Feigenson
Think you’re anonymous on the Internet? Are you careful to never leave any traces of yourself anywhere?
Check it out. Google yourself (“first last” using quotes). See if you’re there. Then go to www.pipl.com  and  try the search again. Even if you’ve never been on the Internet before, there’s a frightening amount of data available to virtually everyone...

Six recommended articles by David Airey
Your website opens you to a world of contacts you’d never have imagined you’d meet. Now more than ever, millions of people have access to your online presence, who, whether you like it or not, will immediately judge you upon your website design. What does your website design say about the person or business you are? All too often the impression you think you’re giving is very different to the one you actually are…

Design and the Divine Proportion - by Mark Boulton

Many designers, whether traditionally schooled or not, have trouble with composition. I’ve sat with plenty of designers who simply moves things around until they feel ‘right’. Design is, in essence, communication (I know, I know, I rant about this enough, but this isn’t one of them) but the vehicle for communication is the design. One of the key components in the vehicle of communication is composition, and in design schooling it is something that is taught as something you should feel rather than create logically. This has always bothered me.

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