Recently I have been looking at a few social networking sites, for myself and for Funtime Comics. I have ascertained the following facts:
- FaceBook is quite pleasant to use, and fun to visit.
- deviantArt is OK. Some people wanted to see Funtime there, and I have no particular objection.
- Using MySpace is like having weevils eating your face. There does not appear to be a single thing about MySpace that isn’t fundamentally wrong-headed, and I trust that those people who suggested that Funtime should have a MySpace page appreciate the deep personal anguish I have experienced in creating one. The default appearance of MySpace is too hideous to be safely viewed by human eyes, but it seems that you can kludge in CSS styles if you stick them in one of your content boxes. And the redoubtable Mike Davidson has already risked his own sanity to figure out the mess of tables and non-semantic tags and provide instructions for beating MySpace pages into something remotely tolerable.
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Myspace seems like a site set up with the intention of allowing all common sense rules regarding creating readable webpages to be broken - all those weird backgrounds and music files…
For comics I think comicspace.com does things very well, almost copying myspace’s look but enforcing a vanilla page design that is readable and not likely to crash your browser.