How to Create Your Own Online Now Icon With Your Picture

MySpace is one of the most popular social networking websites where users can post comments on each other's profiles, chat through MySpace instant messenger and send private messages too. One popular feature of MySpace is the online now icon, which alerts others users when you are online. MySpace offers users a default online now icon, but you can obtain a variety of other premade ones from MySpace customization websites on the Internet. Yet, you can also create your own online now icon with your picture so it's just how you want it.

Things You'll Need

  • Image editing software
  • Picture
  • Photo hosting account
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Instructions

    • 1

      Launch your image-editing software, and then open the picture that you want to use to create your own online now icon within the program. Size the picture to 80 pixels by 20 pixels, which is the standard online now icon size. Save your picture.

    • 2

      Sign in to your photo hosting account and upload your picture to your account by clicking "Upload" and selecting it from your computer's hard drive.

    • 3

      Copy and paste the following online now icon HTML code into the "About Me" section of your MySpace profile, only replace the section that says ('http://www.url.com') with the URL where your picture is hosted on your photo hosting website:
      <style type="text/css">table table table td.text div img {visibility:hidden;} table table table td.text div { background-image:url('http://www.url.com'); background-repeat:no-repeat} table table table td.text table table div img {visibility:visible;} table table table td.text table table div { background-image:url('none');}</style>

Tips & Warnings

  • You can make your online now icon slightly larger or smaller, but it might distort your MySpace table if you make it too large.

  • Beware of making a mistake when copying and pasting the HTML code because one mistake in coding can result in your online now icon not working.

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