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Sunday, August 30, 2009

What Should I Blog About Next?

After finishing the 'Profile Modding For Dummies' blogs, I haven't really gotten around to posting any more blogs. That's because I'm not sure what topic I should write about next or what you UGers want to learn about. Here are some topics that I'm thinking I should write about next:

How To Tab Out Songs By Ear/How To Get Better At Tabbing Songs By Ear
Advanced Profile Modding (Going Deeper Into How To Customize Your Profile)
Guitar Techniques (Sweep Picking, Tapping, Etc.)

That's what I've thought about blogging for right now. If you have a preference of what I should write about or if you want me to write about something else, please leave a comment below.

4:20 pm - 6 comments - 4 Kudos

Friday, August 07, 2009

For Carmel

So in this thread, you can enter to write a song for Carmel. But with only a few spots, I was too late and couldn't enter. Here's my song anyways:

Sweet salutations, dear Batman
Oops! I mean 'carmel'
Pardon the mistake
For I'm just a little mental

I better say your name right
Or I know you'll put up a fight
Like hamster dung, you'd squash me
Making me cry like kensai (when he gets banned)

Squawking like a parakeet
I tell you I'm worthy to be 'User Of The Week'
But since I look like a mangled up frying pan
I guess I'm just not the man

I hope you like Clutch
Since I bought you their CD
I think it's called 'Slow Hole To China: Rare And Unreleased'

I wasn't able to enter the contest
But I'll always think that you're the best
And it just so happens to be
That I think you're the one for me

12:44 am - 2 comments - 0 Kudos

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

The Forgotten (Will You Remember)

The Forgotten (Will You Remember)

Lower the casket

And take your last glance

Memories are all you have now

Say your goodbyes

Say you prayers

For you know your day is coming

Bury the body

While it buries your heart

This empty feeling will never leave

The days seem longer

But your time gets shorter

Feeling dead before dying

As you wither away

In the blink of an eye

A life can be shattered

Leaving you to pick up the pieces

Who will remember

Who even cares

Now that I'm six feet under

12:44 pm - 1 comments - 2 Kudos

Monday, August 03, 2009

Head For The Hills (Before It's Too Late)

Head For The Hills (Before It's Too Late)

You'll never run fast enough

To escape from what's to come

Your foolishness is what brought you here

They'll devour your flesh

Limb by limb

Tearing you apart

Drinking your blood like wine

So head for the hills

Escape from your past

Before it finds you and burns you alive

You thought you could hide

And just let everything slip by

Face your fears

Face what you've become

Before its too late

This is your chance

Your last glimmer of hope

Head for the hills

For they are coming

2:24 pm - 3 comments - 6 Kudos

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Washed Away (In A Sea Of Hopeless Faces)

Washed Away (In A Sea Of Hopeless Faces)

When you left home

The seas were gentle

When you set sail

The winds were calm

You've set your course

There's no turning back

Nowhere else to flee

The tides have changed

The seas are churning

Waiting to swallow you alive

Lost in a sea of broken dreams

Formed by tears of desperation

You never though it would come to this

Never though this day would come

You set out to lead the way

But now you're slowly drifting off course

Fading away from everything you've ever wanted to become

Abandon ship or drown in a sea of hopeless faces

Trapped by what they thought would save them

You never though it would come to this

Never though this day would come

But here it is

Make your choice

Its your decision

Follow or be followed

Sink or swim

11:10 pm - 0 comments - 0 Kudos

Monday, July 20, 2009

Profile Modders List

This blog is for anyone who's modified their profile using HTML. If you want to be added on this list, just PM me or leave a comment below.

3:49 pm - 23 comments - 7 Kudos

Monday, July 06, 2009

Profile Modding For Dummies (Pt.3)

Part 2 Of "Profile Modding For Dummies"

In the last blog, I showed you how to edit text. In this final part of the series, I will show you how to edit links and a couple other things.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU'VE READ THROUGH PARTS 1 & 2 BEFORE READING THIS!!!

If you don't read the first part, you'll have no idea what's going on in this blog.

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With this lesson, I'm just going to start with a new code:

<style type="text/css"></style>

Remember though, that all your codes have to be in just one of these.^^^ (you can't have any more than one, or they won't work)

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This is going to look a lot like text editing, so if you understand that, you will have absolutely no problem with this.

Here's the code for most of the links on your page: (All posts by, All threads by, mp3 names, group names, contributions, etc...)

A {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: underline;}

and this looks EXACTLY the same as when you edit text. (except for the starting letter)

This code is for what most of the links on your profile page will look like when you don't click or hover your cursor over them.

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Now here's the code for what most of your links will look like when you hover your cursor over them:

A:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

Notice how these codes both start with 'A' but the second one has ':hover' right after it.

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So the code with just a letter at the beginning is for your links when you don't hover your cursor over them, and the code with the same letter at the beginning but with a ':hover' after, is for your links when you hover your cursor over them.

Here's how it should look so far:

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That's all there is to know about link editing. Here's some more codes for diffferent links on your profile page: (I will have two codes under each title because of the 'hover' feature. Make sure to use both codes.)

LINK FOR MENU BAR ON TOP OF PAGE

.m {color: #COLOR;background: #COLOR}

.m:hover {color: #COLOR;background: #COLOR}

LINK FOR YOUR 'LOCATION'

A.dd {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.dd:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR 'MY PROFILE', 'MY MUSIC', AND 'MY BLOGS'

.w,A.w {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

.w,A.w:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR GEAR INFO PICS

.g,A.g {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

.g,A.g:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR MP3 BOX

A.smp {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.smp:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR MENU BAR ON BOTTOM OF PAGE

.sm2 {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.sm2:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR USERNAMES IN FRIENDS BOX

.sm3 {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.sm3:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR USERNAMES IN COMMENT BOX

A.sp {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.sp:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINK FOR THE TOP RIGHT 'MY PROFILE' LINK

.ma {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none; background: #ffffff}

A.ma:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR MP3S, PICTURES, CONTRIBUTIONS, VIEW ALL FRIENDS

.my {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.my:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS IN CONTACT BOX AND THE 'MORE PICTURES...' LINK

.cnt {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.cnt:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINKS FOR GEAR PICS, VIEW ALL MP3S, VIEW ALL COMMENTS

A.me {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.me:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

LINK FOR THE 'READ NEXT' BUTTON

A.nx {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

A.nx:hover {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

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Now these next codes aren't really links or text, but here they are:

PROFILE INDEX TEXT

DIV.in_s {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

THE LINES SEPERATING THE VERY TOP LINK AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE

TD.m {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

'PROFILE LAST UPDATED' TEXT

TD.sts {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

THE NUMBERS IN BRACKETS BESIDE 'GEAR PICS' AND 'REVIEWS'

.sm {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

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Now here's the last, and probably most awesome thing you can do to your profile: Changing what the cursor looks like.

It's not really that hard or confusing. It's similar to link editing because it has a code for when you aren't hovering over a link and a code for when you are hovering over a link.

Here's the two codes:

body {cursor: crosshair;}

a:hover {cursor: crosshair;}

Here's the link to all the other things you can change your cursor into besides 'crosshair':

Cursor Codes List

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And with that, I'm done with my series of blogs on profile modification. If you have any questions about this, just PM me.

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12:54 pm - 6 comments - 12 Kudos

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Profile Modding For Dummies (Pt.2)

Part 1 Of "Profile Modding For Dummies"

In the last blog, I showed you how to change colors on the background of your profile. Now we are going to move on to text editing.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU'VE READ THROUGH PART 1 BEFORE READING THIS!!!

If you don't read the first part, you'll have no idea what's going on in this blog.

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Here's what we made in the last blog:

<style type="text/css"></style>

For all of your html codes you just need to have them in between these special codes at the beginning and end of the whole code:

<style type="text/css"></style>

And by knowing that, we'll get started on the fun stuff.

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This is the code for almost all the basic text in your profile: (You put this in between the beginning and ending html codes that I showed you above. Don't put anything out of those codes. If you do, it won't work at all.)

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

This should look very confusing to you. Don't worry if you have no idea what this is even meaning.

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First things first: font.

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

You can change that to:

normal
bold
italic
underline

Any one of those options is fine.

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Next thing: size.

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

You can put in any number you want into there:

1px
10px
15px
100px (WAAAAY too big, but you can if you want to)

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Next thing: font.

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

Here's some examples of the fonts you can use:

Verdana
Arial
Century Gothic
Impact
System
Tahoma

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Next thing: color.

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

Here's the link to all of the colors you can use:

Color Codes List

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Next thing: upper or lower case letters.

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

Pretty self expanatory. Only two options here:

uppercase
lowercase
normal

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Next thing: letter spacing and text decoration.

TD {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

These are pretty useless and you probably won't ever need or want to use them.

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And with that, here's a few more codes to play around with for editing text:

TEXT ABOVE PROFILE PIC, IN MP3 PLAYER, DATE OF COMMENTS

.smp {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070;text-transform: lowercase}

TEXT FOR "FORUM" SECTION, GENDER, BIRTHDAY

.forum SPAN {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

TEXT FOR THE COMMENTS WRITTEN IN THE COMMENT BOX AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE

TEXTAREA.tcomm {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

TEXT FOR YOUR USERNAME ON THE TOP OF YOUR PROFILE PAGE

H1 {font: bold 10px Verdana; color: #707070; text-transform: lowercase; letter-spacing: none; text-decoration: none;}

TEXT FOR "CONTACT" SECTION

.contact {border: solid 1px #COLOR;}

TEXT FOR "STATUS" SECTION

.treb {color: #COLOR}

BORDER AROUND PROFILE PIC

.b4 {border: solid 1px #COLOR}

BORDER AROUND TABS ('ABOUT *USERNAMEHERE*','GEAR INFO',ETC...)

DIV.info_ot {background: url(URL) #COLOR}

BORDER AROUND OTHER TABS ('GEAR PICS','VIEW ALL BLOGS',ETC...)

DIV.info_ot_s {background: url(URL) #COLOR}

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That's the end of this blog about editing text. PM me with any questions you have about it. The next blog will be about link editing.

Part 3 Of "Profile Modding For Dummies"

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11:06 am - 6 comments - 4 Kudos

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Profile Modding For Dummies (Pt.1)

The Introduction To "Profile Modding For Dummies"

So to start off modifying your profile you need to go to:

MyProfile>EditProfile>AboutMe&Interests

Then you'll see a section called "About Me [html allowed]". This is where you can modify your profile.
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The first thing you need to do is you need to type this into that section:

<style type="text/css"></style>

IMPORTANT: There is a space before the --></. Do not leave the space out!

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So now you should have something that looks like this:

<style type="text/css"></style>

Notice the two spaces in the middle!

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Now we can start the fun stuff.

To start off, we'll learn how to change the background color.

The html code for changing the color on the far left and right sides of your UG profile is:

body {background: url(URL) no-repeat top center #COLOR}

Now this might look confusing, but I will explain all of it. First off, we aren't going to
learn about using URL's just yet, so we can backspace that so now the code will look
like this:

body {background: no-repeat top center #COLOR}

Now we can select a color. For html, different colors are different combinations of letters and numbers.

EXAMPLE: black = #000000
                white = #FFFFFF
                yellow = #FF0000
                orange = #FFA500

The full list of color codes is here:

Color Code List

So once you find the color you're looking for, you type it in the code so it will look like this: (I'm using white for this example but you can use any color you want to)

body {background: no-repeat top center #FFFFFF}

And since this is a color, not a URL or a picture, we can backspace the "no-repeat" so it will look like this now: (I will talk about URLs and pictures in a later blog)

body {background: top center #FFFFFF}

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Now you can post that code inside the starting and ending codes and it should look like this:

<style type="text/css"></style>

I made them with different colors so you can see the different codes. DO NOT color them seperately when you are actually doing this.
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Now here's another code like the last one, except this one changes the color in the center of your profile:

.bl {background: url(URL) no-repeat bottom left #COLOR } td {height: 100%}

But since we aren't doing and URLs or pictures right now, we can backspace some of it so now it should look like this:

.bl {background: bottom left #COLOR } td {height: 100%}

This is somewhat similar to that last code I showed you, except this one has a little more added on to at the end. For right now you don't need to worry about that, and you just need to choose a color. So once you've chosen a color, (I'm going to use black as my example) it should look like this:

.bl {background: bottom left #000000 } td {height: 100%}

And then you can put it into the other codes so it will look like this:

<style type="text/css"></style>

The code in the yellow is the one we just worked on.

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Now here's some more codes that you can figure out: (they work just the same as the ones we have gone over)

BACKGROUND COLOR FOR SECTIONS WITH STRIPED GREY BACKGROUND

.info {background: url(URL) top right no-repeat #COLOR;}

BACKGROUND COLOR FOR SECTIONS WITH STRIPED BLUE BACKGROUND

.info_bl {background: url(URL) top right no-repeat #COLOR;}

BACKGROUND COLOR AROUND AVATARS IN "FRIENDS" LIST

DIV.avt {background: url(URL) #COLOR}

BACKGROUND BEHIND PROFILE PIC

.pic {background: url(URL) #COLOR; no-repeat;padding:10px;margin-bottom:15px}

BACKGROUND FOR TABS ('ABOUT *USERNAMEHERE*','GEAR INFO',ETC...)

DIV.info_in {background:url(URL) #COLOR;color: #COLOR}

BACKGROUND FOR OTHER TABS ('GEAR PICS','VIEW ALL BLOGS',ETC...)

DIV.info_in_s {background:url(URL) #COLOR}

Once again, you don't need to use the "url(URL) or the "no-repeats" for now, so you can backspace them.

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I hope this first lesson helps a lot. PM me with any questions you have about this. The next lesson is about editing text.

Part 2 of "Profile Modding For Dummies"

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Profile Modding For Dummies (The Introduction)

If you've spent any time on UG looking at profiles, then you've probably come across some profiles that have been modified using html. What I mean by that is that their profile has colored text, colored borders, different font type, etc.

EXAMPLES OF PROFILE MODIFICATION:

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aig91

stepco12345

The link to the thread on how to do this is here:

Profile Modification Using Html

That thread explains a lot of things about html profile modification, but some of it is confusing for some UG members to figure out. I'm going to post a series of blogs on how to modify your profile but in an easy, not confusing way. I hope these blogs will help all the UG members out there who are confused about how to modify their profile.

Part 1 Of "Profile Modding For Dummies"

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