Check out other band's myspace sites. Copy!
It'll take some time, some fiddling, but you're going to have to come up with your own thing. However, take notes from other band's websites, and get help with some of those myspace helper sites.
All the big bands hire out advertising to do it for them, so they get the nifty rearranging of the tables, the big headlines, and the overall slick look. I'm sure that it's not too tough to do, but it might be, and you probably don't need any of that stuff right now. the point is that your myspace site's not going to look nearly as slick as Korn's, or whomever it is that you might idolize.
First, use one of those myspace enhancing sites. If you use one of those myspace enhancing websites (like Thomas, or several others), be sure to get rid of the text that acts as an advertisement.
Here's a BAD example in my book:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=401227401
They didn't get rid of the "Layout by Coolhand" stuff, and there's a few ads floating around for some website that helps you punch up your myspace site. It looks cheap. Also, they used some of the transparent backrounds in the tables. Now, it looks cluttered, and it's hard to read what's going on.
Here's a better one (albiet still very, very simple):
www.myspace.com/izabellaband
It's obvious that Izabella is a working band, with lots of gigs. Their music stands out, and the site's easy to read. They really didn't do anything nifty at all to the site. They've let the content shine instead of the nifty doodads. I've seen these guys, and they rip it up every time, and sell out some good shows, the point being that even kick-@ss bands don't need a kick-@ss myspace site. The content will override the appearance.
Blah - are you sure you set up as a band? There shouldn't be a "male" or "female" anything showing up on your profile.
Quel - your problem with the backround image shouldn't be that difficult to fix. Many of those myspace helper sites have forms that will help you load that in. However, you'll need to have the image hosted somewhere, like on Photobucket.com or something like that. Try not to use myspace as a host for your background picture (or any other pictures on the front page of your myspace site) 'cause some browsers don't recognize them.
In the "Bio" section of my band's myspace site, there's a line of text within the cascading sheets section that reads
background-image:url(http://www.stereoearth.com/background.jpg); (Actually, it's not located there right now, as our server just went down, but normally, it's there.)
This is the line that tosses the picture into the background. Here's how the first portion of our text in the "Bio" section reads:
<Style type="text/css">
table, tr, td{
background-color:transparent;
border-style:none;
}
table table table, table table table td{
background-color:transparent;
}
body{
background-color:rgb(0,0,0);
background-image:url(http://www.stereoearth.com/background.jpg);
background-position:top left;
background-repeat:repeat;
background-attachment:scroll;
}
I hope that helps.
