Joining social networks could be one of the most exciting parts of your online life. After all, here is where you get to find old friends, meet new ones, and keep the existing ones close. There are many social networking sites on the Internet and you could be a member to either one or all of them.

MySpace is one of the major social networks on the Net today. And just like most social networks, the goal nowadays is to be set apart from the rest by adding ‘character' to your own site. If you are a new MySpace user and you are on your quest to making your site ‘unique', know that there are so many ways to improve your site.

The many methods of improving your new MySpace account include adding photographs (this is pretty basic), putting in videos and background music, and also adding a ‘cool' background. How do you get down and start making one ‘cool' background?

Adding a background is pretty basic and it should be one of the major things that you should accomplish immediately because it is the very foundation of your site. It lies there and it stares at people once they access your site. There are two ways to come up with a background out of any graphic that you choose to put on your site.

The most common way is to set the graphic as the background image on a Web page. The trick here is to add the background (or URL) to the body tag. For instance, the site Mom's Corner.com should be depicted as: http://www.momscorner.com/mb_content/tile_leaves_autumn.gif. This concept can be applied in MySpace. All you have to do is copy and paste the line into the profile box (your profile box) and this should immediately work.

To get rid of the default styling and allow the background become transparent, you could try to do this: <style type="text/css">

Table, td{background-color;transparent;

border:none;

border-width:0;}

</style>

To use a different color on your site's background, you must key in the six-digit color code. It is the background color property which allows users to alter the background color for your Web page. For instance: <style type="text/css>

body

{background-color: color_code;}

</style>

A much more ‘cool' way of adding graphics to your web pages is through the use of CSS or Cascading Style Sheets and letting go of the common HTML type. Just don't be disappointed when it doesn't work with MySpace because sometimes it really doesn't. Just give it a try to see what would happen to your background. The line should look like this, this time: <style type="text/css"rel='stylesheet">

body {background-image: url (url) }

</style>

If you opt to use your own photos as your background, try doing this:<style type="text/css>

Body {background-image:url (‘image_url");

background-attachment;fixed;}

The background-image property is the one that specifies a background image to the page. Also, using the ‘background-attachment: fixed' property allows the background image to stay still or fixed at a given place on the screen even when the viewer scrolls up or down.

It is really quite easy to come up with your own unique background image. And it really doesn't take rocket science to understand and make your own. You could even enhance it by adding the perfect color that would suit your taste-the possibilities to add character to your web page are quite numerous so take advantage of it.