Today is apparently Pimp Your Profile Day here at Kompoz.  In my earlier post, I showed you how to showcase your best collabs on your Kompoz profile.  In this post, I'll show you how to add some color and style to your page.

MySpace users have been tricking out their profiles for a long time.  They do so by embedding style sheet codes in their About Me or other fields, essentially getting around the system.  It's become accepted and standard to do it that way on MySpace.  And a few of you have done the same here on Kompoz, by embedding style sheet information in your profile's Status field.  The problem with that approach is that the Kompoz Status field gets reset every couple of weeks in order to keep your status from getting stale.  The approach aslo requires you to include the correct HTML [style] tags, which can be a pain.

So we've added a new field to your profile page specifically designed for you to include style sheet information.  Go to your profile and click the Edit Profile link next to your photo.  At the very bottom of the page you'll see the new input box titled "CSS Tags". 

While I can't provide a complete tutorial on using CSS style sheets, here is a simple example of the code I added to my profile to make the background black, and to include the Les Paul photo in the background.  Take a look at my profile to see the results.

body {
  background: url(http://www.kompoz.com/media/uploads/media-bin/m1006-20081110-220330-p0.jpg) top left no-repeat #000000;
}

In the example above, notice that I provide a URL to an image that will be used for a background.  I also tell the browser to display the image in the top left corner, and not to repeat the image if it does not fill the entire browser.  Finally, I also tell it to use color #000000 (which is black) as the background color.  

Have fun with this, and if you do pimp your profile, post a comment here so we can all see your art.  NOTE: If you use any of the sites on the Web for creating these CSS tags, be sure to remove the [style][/style] tags from the code before adding to your Kompoz profile.