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Spiff Up Your Profile With the Custom HTML Code Field

Hey buddies -- here's a quick reminder on how you can use the Custom HTML Code field to spiff up your profile with polls, flash games, slideshows, movie clips or just about any other bit of embeddable HTML code.

A word of caution: If you're not sure what you're doing, you can end up "breaking" your profile -- like it doesn't act the same, or starts to render funny.

However, if you stick to cutting and pasting embeddable code that other Web sites provide, you should be in pretty good shape. Just be careful.

As with most things, the first thing you want to do is go to your profile -- when you've signed in, click the "Edit Page" button at the top of the screen:

This will put you into Quick Edit mode. Click the "Custom HTML Code" tab on the left. This will show you two fields: A Title field, and a Code field where you can paste the code. Simple, and yet very powerful:

Now, you can hand-type any valid HTML code you want, but most people are just going to paste in embeddable code that other Web sites give you. This can be everything from embeddeable Flash slideshows, games, quizzes, video players and other doo-dads and widgets.

Where ever you are, just look for something that says "Embed This," "Paste This Into Your Web Page" or something similar.

(Sorry to be so vague -- this is just a really open-ended proposition. Which is why it's so useful.)

When you're done, click the "Save Page" button, and you're done.

Now, the finished object that you pasted into the Custom HTML Code field will show up in the center column (because it's wider), in most cases above the comments.

In my ReadyAIMJoe profile that I use for testing, I've moved things around a bit, so it's at the very bottom; here's my example using some music player code from iLike:

So, you can pretty much do what you like in the Custom HTML Code field.

Have fun, and be careful.

Thanks -- Joe



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  • #8 Comment from prplhthr8 
    7/27/07 10:50 AM | Permalink
    Wow, I never knew you could do that!!!! i have a strict set of guidelines for my page, so i'm ok, better safe then sorry
  • #7 Comment from edgesgirl1982 
    7/2/07 10:52 PM | Permalink
    is there an html code that we can put on our aim page so those we know online can see it better
  • #6 Comment from taintedprince 
    6/28/07 4:58 PM | Permalink
    HOW do you make the whole page display the HTML, my html does a funny thing where only the edges have the code in them....

    HELP!
  • #5 Comment from aimpagesteamEntry Author 
    6/28/07 12:06 PM | Permalink
    wenzi2000: If you see a spam profile, or any other profile that violates the AIM Pages Guidelines ( http://start.aimpages.com/guidelines/ ), just click the "Report This" link in the upper right of the profile.

    I didn't see that particular profile, but as you can see now, it has been deleted.

    Thanks -- Joe
  • #4 Comment from wenzi2000 
    6/24/07 12:28 AM | Permalink
    What about spam pages like www.aimpages.com/benjaminxopyaq/ ? What will AIM do to stop that.
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