How to Get More Mood Smileys on MySpace

Mood smiley faces are a fun way to add personality to your MySpace profile. While MySpace provides quite a few different smiley images to choose from, sometimes they don't quite capture the mood you're in. You also may want to be more unique and not have the same set of smiley faces as every other MySpace user. Many sites provide new sets of smiley faces you can use in your MySpace profile by copying and pasting just a few lines of code into your profile.

Instructions

Try a Test Smiley

1. Log in to MySpace.

2. Hover over "Profile" in the top navigation menu and select "Customize Profile."

3. Click "Appearance" on the far left and "CSS" in the menu to the right of it.

4. Paste the following code into the box:

   div.basicInfoModule div.basicInfoDetails p span.mood img {filter:alpha(opacity=0.01); opacity:0.01; -khtml-opacity:0.01;}
   div.basicInfoModule div.basicInfoDetails p span.mood {background-image:url(http://i38.tinypic.com/2145d0o.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center; display:block; height:24px;}

5. Click "Publish" in the upper right corner, then click "OK."

6. Click "Home" in the top navigation menu. Enter any status and choose any mood from the drop-down menu. Your new smiley will not appear in the drop-down list, so it doesn't matter what smiley face you choose. Click "Update."

7. Hover over "Profile" in the top navigation menu and select "My Profile." You should see your status update along with a pumpkin image instead of the one you picked. This confirms the new code is working.

Get a New Smiley

1. Visit BlogSmilies.com and select a new smiley face of your choice. Copy the code next to the smiley face and paste it into a text editor (such as Notepad).

2. Delete everything in the code except the URL to the image from the "src=" field. This is the direct address to your smiley face image.

3. Return to MySpace. Hover over "Profile," select "Customize Profile" and click "CSS." You should see the code from Step 4 in the previous section still in the box.

4. Replace the URL in the code box (http://i38.tinypic.com/2145d0o.png) with the URL of your new smiley face. Click "Publish" in the upper right, then click "OK." Your newly selected smiley face should appear in place of the pumpkin.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use a smiley face from anywhere on the web, not just Blog Smilies, provided the creator of the image gives you permission to use it. Right-click on the image, select "Properties," and look for the URL to the image itself. Copy that image into your CSS box as outlined in Step 4 of the section titled "Get a New Smiley."

• If your new smiley looks distorted, change "height: 24px" in the code in the CSS box to the height of your new image.

References

• MySpace Blogs: Change Your Mood Icon

Resources

• BlogSmilies.com: Smilies for MySpace, Xanga or Friendster