Hope you are enjoying our BumpMe MySpace app that easily lets you send or embed any graphics on your page with one click of button!

I’ve been getting some questions from people asking how to remove duplicated stickers they accidently posted on their page. Unfortunately, MySpace doesn’t allow us to access the user’s profile to retrieve information so we can’t remove the graphics for you automatically. So removing would be required to be done manually.

Here’s how. Take a look at the section that you posted the sticker. For example, I posted 2 cat graphics on my “About me” by accident.

So, I need to click “Edit Profile” from the top navigation menu “Profile” and go to the “About me” box.

Here’s the code for the first sticker.

As you can see, all the BumpMe code starts with this code:

<br /><br /><p><p style=”text-align:center”><a href=”http://www.msplinks.com/
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and ends with

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target=”_top”>Share this sticker!</a></p></p>

so compare this chunk of code with the one right after, if it’s identical, you should remove one of them and that should solve the duplicated graphics problem.

Hope this helps!

Halloween! I’m sure it’s one of your most favorite day of the year! Have you gotten the costumes to wear? And all those cool decorations to decorate your home? Oh, and don’t forget to get a Halloween MySpace layout too!! Here are some of the brand new Halloween themes and layouts created by our awesome members this year!

Pink Halloween by babygurl_2588

Just because it’s Halloween, you don’t need to get stuck with orange! Pink and Halloween surely goes well together in this theme.

happy halloween by amkenyon

This is really a great Profile 2.0 Halloween theme! It uses round corners and a double background technique, very high tech and professional!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN by Yvonne

Our superstar theme creator Yvonne did it again! One of her most recent Halloween theme that is so perfectly made – I like the black navigation bar against the orange background

Happy Halloween (animated) by love 2 make layouts!

Another superstar, love 2 make layouts created some beautiful Halloween themes for this year too! This one is especially cute if you have a Profile 1.0 layout

Witching halloween by Em

Em is our rising star! She has so many beautiful themes other than this Halloween one, so go check them out!

Haunted House by S.A.P.

If you want something traditional, you can’t go wrong with this one! I like the Profile 1.0 version, so if you haven’t upgraded to 2.0, this would be a great layout to have

Halloween is still couple of weeks away so there will be many more awesome Halloween themes to come! Let us know if you spot anything you like, we would love to share it here with our other members!

Yup, we still feature themes in case you forgot! I know it’s been a long time, but better late than never! I found some unique Profile 2.0 themes that wanted to introduce to you. So here we go!

mmmmmm33 by different as a moonbeam from lighting

What a beautiful theme! It doesn’t even look like a MySpace layout huh? I recommend using the technique used in this theme for the background to make a professional looking layout. The background is actually very tall (1429px!) so even if you have a big monitor, you won’t see the background image get cut off on the bottom! And it’s fixed position so no matter how long your MySpace gets with all the comments from your friends, your background will stay in the same place. I like how the background image is shaping the content too. Love love love it!!

Yellow by jasmine_hernandez13

Clean and very simple but has lots of small details, such as round corners, double background, quote inside the basic info box, and a thin banner on top! Jasmine has other very similar looking themes that are equally beautiful such as the Hater theme so go check them out!

purple butterfly by eternal_u2

What a beautiful theme! It uses the double background technique with a huge image on the basic info box. All of the images are well blended and has a very soft feeling to it! Who doesn’t like butterflies?

Celadon & Black 2 by Diana

OK this is another girly theme but hey I like girly stuff! I love the color palette used in this theme very much. It would had been better if the background’s image had a wider white space to enclose the modules, but still a very beautiful theme.

retro by crystalwilson27

This double background theme is so cute!! I love the color palette and the dot pattern against the checker background – geometric but cute and pop

These are just some of the recent ones I found today but I’m sure there are many more beautiful themes out there. Please let us know when you run into a cool theme that you wanna share with other people, whether it’s someone else’s or yours!

After careful consideration, we have decided to wind down the ClipClip service.

We are planning to take the following steps:

1) Close down on new registrations but still let existing members to view & clip.
2) Disable the clip button so no new clips will be made.
3) We will keep the site for only browsing for a while.
4) TBD: When the day comes when we decide on shutting down ClipClip entirely, we will provide a download link to let our members to export their clips.

We love ClipClip and are very proud of the service it has brought to our users. However ClipClip became the haven for spammers. They exploited our service to advertise their poorly made sites – some were even paying people to clip their sites. We tried very hard to fight them but to continue weeding the spam and install adequate spam prevention measures would require too much work.

Therefore, we have decided to focus on helping people explore and find items online in other ways. We are very excited about this new project and hope you will find it useful and compelling.

Many thanks to our real members (a.k.a. non-spammers) for using and supporting ClipClip for all these years! Let us know if you have any questions by leaving a comment here or by using our feedback form.

We are sorry to announce that we have decided to discontinue our MySpace CoolChaser Widget. Many of our loyal fans have been asking us when they can get the widget back and that they miss it so we tried VERY HARD to get our app unsuspended. But the conditions MySpace gave us were too strict.

They told us that nothing from the app can link to our CoolChaser.com site – which means, even if you would like your friend to preview the layouts and themes you’ve created, there is no way they can preview it or use the layout – cause it doesn’t link anywhere!!

Why are they treating CoolChaser like a swine flu? LOL Like we mentioned before, they claim that they found lots of inappropriate materials on our site. I tell you, MySpace content review team knows more curse/sick words than anybody on this planet! Since the CoolChaser developers are all dorks, we were like “I can’t find that thing they mentioned!! How did they find it!” LOL

We don’t want any of our users to promote hate, violence, and porn (just enjoy porn elsewhere!) on our site which I know 99% of our users don’t. But like somebody said, “it only takes one @$$hole to ruin your day”. Especially if you deliberately look for one!

Thanks for your understanding and we would really like to thank all of our loyal fans for supporting us! We are working hard to improve our site (hey do you like the auto insert thing? Isn’t it cool?) Like always, please feel free to leave us comments/suggetion/feedbacks

Hey guys, remember we had that very convenient feature that lets you update your MySpace layouts automatically in seconds? And when we had to take it down, lots of people got mad? LOL (251 comments!!) Well, guess what, we got that feature back!! Woo Hoo!

This feature is offered through our shiny new toolbar so all you need to do is to install it (Installing is super easy btw!) and that’s it! You can change your layouts literally in seconds – we even detect what profile your are on (1.0 or 2.0) so even if you aren’t paying attention (like how I am all the time!) you still get an amazing layout at the end Of course, we replace your old CoolChaser layout automatically too so no need to delete it beforehand

Also, let us assure you that our toolbar is 100% safe with no spyware or obtrusive ads and is 100% free! You can uninstall it anytime also so give it a try, you’ll like it

As always, we would love to hear your feedback/suggestions/bugs too so feel free to leave comments!

As some of you may have noticed, our CoolChaser widget installed on some of your MySpace profiles has the “CoolChaser is currently down for maintenance.” message. MySpace suspended our app because they found inappropriate materials on our site that was created by some of our users. We are working to resolve this problem with MySpace’s help and hopefully get the app back soon but we aren’t sure exactly when.

We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience!

UPDATE – 4.15.09: Yes, the Auto Insert feature IS BACK! It’s still in super BETA and only for Firefox users though. But IE people, don’t despair, you can still try it out the following steps! (btw, we ARE planning to have an IE version soon so if it is too complicated, you can sit back and relax until we release the IE version )

How to use this extension (especially for IE users)

1. Download & Install Firefox

2. Go to your user homepage and you should see a BIG SHINY Auto Insert button!

3. Not just yet! Download & Install the CoolChaser Extension first to use this button! (you will be prompted to do so right there)

4. Restart Firefox and click that install button like you’ve never clicked anything before.

5. Done, you got a new layout!

What’s so great about this extension:

1. It will automatically detect what profile you are using (1.0 or 2.0) so you don’t even have to be on the right tab!

2. It will replace the old CoolChaser layout code so no need to look for it!

3. IT’S SUPER FAST, I was able to update my layout 5 times in one minute!! (from my history)

Couple of things to note:

1) Like I already mentioned, this extension is still in Super Beta mode, and as we are planning to ship out the IE compatible one, you WILL need to reinstall a newer version later. (but this should be a piece of cake)

2. There is a known bug that you’ll see a tiny frame on top of your browser when updating your layout. This disappears after you update your layout and is not permanent. We are looking into the fix.

Those who have tried this feature out, please let us know what you think

Update: Mar 16 2pm PDT We’re back up – sorry for the inconvenience.

Sorry, we’re experiencing a slowdown due to the deployment of a new CoolChaser release. The site may not be operational for many of you. Please check this log for updates. We’re hoping to be back up in the next few hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Hey guys! Sorry that we didn’t notice for a while, but we just found out that the background image doesn’t show up for Profile 2.0. (If you are using Profile 1.0 and the background isn’t showing, that’s a different problem so you can ignore this post!)

We will have a fix soon but here’s how to fix it manually.

1) Go to the MySpace Profile Editor by clicking here or log in to your Myspace account and click “Customize Profile” under the “Profile” top nav button.

2) In the CSS part where you paste the code, DELETE everything before the word “body”

We are so sorry that we didn’t notice this earlier! And let me know if the above method doesn’t work.

So MySpace didn’t like the auto insert functionality from gigya for some security reason so we had to take that very convenient feature out. They told us to use their “Post It” tool and we tried it but it SUCKS for layouts. Have you guys tried this “Post It” tool? I think it works great for graphics or videos to embed on your profile. But for layouts, it just doesn’t make sense.

Here are the things we didn’t like about that tool.

1) Since it’s CSS code that we are inserting, they try to apply that CSS to that preview page itself and since it’s not compatible, the whole page looks all screwed up. (as you can see the sparkle background is appearing on random places.)

2) There are 3 choices to choose where to paste it, and 2 of them won’t work (the bulletin and blog).

3) It does NOT work for posting a Profile 2.0 layout!!

We thought this was way too confusing so decided not to use this tool.

We are pretty sure many people will miss this functionality as last time we were told to show only codes, lots of our users weren’t happy (58 comments!) I already see many people confused again because they are pasting the code in our shout box

All we can do now is to hope for MySpace Post It tool to work for layouts!! I don’t see why they wouldn’t want to make it compatible, because customizing layouts is what made MySpace popular, don’t you think??

It’s almost Valentine’s Day and we got tons and tons of new themes created every day!

Valentine Boop by ♥CJ♥

Valentines without Betty Boop is like Hamburger without fries! (I’m sorry I’m hungry now)! ♥CJ♥ is our superstar on our site who constantly creates very popular themes – thank you ♥CJ♥ for being such a loyal user!

Falling Hearts by candiesweet_24

Who likes pink? Me Me Me! Every girl in the room likes pink! This very romantic Valentines theme created by candiesweet_24 is just for you!!

Valentine damask by Tammy

Another great theme by Tammy! I really like the image of the envelop she used as the module’s background!

love sweet love by love 2 make layouts!

Here is a unique one if you aren’t really into the typical red Valentines layouts! It’s got a very warm feeling to it and I found a nice background from Photobucket that matches well! (which by the way, is repeated automatically ever since the Lost John feature was shipped out) love 2 make layouts! is our rising star and has created so many beautiful themes.

I Love You by Epic Faerie

This is a cool double background Profile 2.0 theme that is also 1.0 compatible. I like the 2.0 version better cause it’s more dynamic looking! Epic Faerie created lots of other cool Valentines themes too, so go check them out!

Happy Valentines Day by Yvonne

Very romantic and RED HOT! This uses the same heart image from Epic Faerie’s but the result looks very different doesn’t it? Yvonne has been really popular lately always on our rankings page!

I introduced the ones made this year but if you include all the Valentine’s themes from last year, I’m sure you’ll find something that matches your taste! If you are curious, this is the link to the blog that we introduced the Valentine’s themes from last year.

Hey CoolChasers, we have just shipped out a new feature on our layout editor that lets you use animated gifs for your backgrounds! Huraaaay! This feature has been suggested by Lost John, our very loyal member on CoolChaser, who is fighting a battle against cancer – thus we would love to call this feature the “Lost John Feature”!

To celebrate this new feature, we created a layout dedicated to Lost John using animated gif as a background! (ok you can’t see on this picture, but the background is an animated gif!)

You can preview the layout here.

We would like other people to create layouts for Lost John using this feature to support him too! Please comment here on the blog or on the forum with the link to the layout.

Lost John, you are in our thoughts and prayers!!

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Update:
Hey, thanks Heathaaa! for creating one! I’m gonna keep adding the screenshots here as we get more!

Still using Profile 1.0 because 2.0 took away the network box and contact box graphics? Well, I’ve found some really awesome Profile 2.0 themes that use graphics very effectively – all created by our awesome CoolChaser Theme creators – chekkitout!

Emmett Cullen by Georgia Cullen

Whoa! I have to confess, I’ve never watched Twilight yet (don’t stone me!), but this looks like an official MySpace Twilight page created for this character! I love how Georgia uses the graphic in the Basic Info box! Much more freedom than using the network box in terms of space, isn’t it? Georgia also has lots of other cool 2.0 themes with a similar style – so go check them out!

Rasta Roxy by ♥ Kayla ♥

This is actually a very unique theme, do you notice that the Basic Info Box has a different background (white) from the other modules? Also, it uses the Rasta logo (is it a logo?) as a whole inside the Basic Info Box, and as a background for the other module headers. A very creative theme!

Vampire Love by ♥CJ♥

Another Vampire Theme by our new rising star ♥CJ♥! She is constantly on the top of our ranking page and has lots of fans! She always make sure that her themes look great both in 1.0 and 2.0 and for this theme, I personally like the 2.0 version She has lots of cool Valentines themes too so go check’em out!

Brown Green by >>Nin<<

Here’s a great example using the double background feature on our Profile 2.0 editor by >>Nin<. You see the brown wood textured background around the modules and the green background around it – hence the “double background” Notice the cool star graphic right in the middle of the “Basic Info” box, also tweaked by using our Profile 2.0 editor!

Starter Kit by Just April

Another great double background example by Just April! If we can’t decide which background to use, you can use both of them (but make sure you use it elegantly, this could go crazy LOL)

I hope these themes inspired you to create great looking themes! And thanks to all the theme creators for taking your time to make the theme look good both in Profile 1.0 and Profile 2.0 – you guys are such pros!!

Congratulations to 45Steve, winner of the CoolChaser Holiday Contest! We have selected 45Steve’s Sparkling New Years Party Theme as the winner for it’s dynamic use of space and great sense of style!

Here’s an interview with the winner!

Congratulations 45Steve, and you will be receiving a brand new 8GB iPod Touch as a prize – you totally deserve it!

Happy New Year!! Hope you guys enjoyed the Holiday Contest – we had 556 entries! Wow! We would like to thank every single person who entered their themes. Now we are at the final stage to choose the winner to the 8GB iPod Touch! Here are the top 10 most used themes from the Holiday Contest!

1 Christmas Glitter by 45Steve (512)

2 starry christmas tree by stacey (282)

3 Sparkling New Years Party by 45Steve (260)


4 New Years Gold 45Steve by (250)

5 Neon New Year by 45Steve (176)

6 Blue Christmas by 45Steve (175)

7 Red Sparkle New Year by 45Steve (162)

8 New Year 2009 by 45Steve (129)

9 Champagne New Year by 45Steve (119)

10 Blue Starburst Christmas by Xina (114)

Amazingly, 8 out of these 10 themes were all created by one person – the incredible 45Steve! Super Duper! That’s quite an accomplishment!

Anyway, we are going to pick the best theme among these top 10 according to the following criteria:

a) use of color
b) use of creative graphics
c) use of space
d) sense of style
e) accurate representation of the Holiday/Festivity spirit

and then we will announce the winner on January 10th! (or sooner!) Thanks again to all of you for creating so many beautiful themes!

UPDATE 12.22.08 – Looks like there aren’t gonna be any changes for now so CoolChaser should continue to work as is! Phew!

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We aren’t 100% sure yet at this moment, but the tool we are using for people to update their MySpace profile (called Gigya) might not work tomorrow as MySpace is undergoing some changes. We don’t have much information yet but just wanted to let you guys know just in case! If that does happen, we will try to fix the problem as soon as we can – though, our engineer is on vacation now so we might have to wait until he comes back. Thanks for your understanding in advance!

Hey people, thanks for entering the holiday contest and for leaving comments on the holiday contest blog. We wish we can give everybody an iPod Touch, but there is going to be only one winner! So what’s your chance of winning that prize? Now we have a ranking page that shows the number of layouts that was created from the entries since Dec 12 so go check it out! Here’s the link!

http://www.coolchaser.com/user/holiday_rankings

We will continue counting until Jan 3rd, 2009 so keep coming back to check how well your theme is doing

As of today, Dec 19, looks like 45Steve’s Christmas Glitter is totally kicking ass! But remember, the finalists are the top 10, and among them, the CoolChase team will select the winner from the criteria that we listed on the contest blog so anybody still has a chance!

Also, we have a new feature to let your friends know about your themes so TELL TELL TELL your friends and have ALL OF THEM use your contest theme!! Go to your themes page (http:www.coolchaser.com/user/themes) and you’ll notice a link “share.” From their, you can post a bulletin to notify all your friends on MySpace about your new creation.

There are so many beautiful themes in the contest which aren’t used as much. Why? Cause people don’t know about it! So we hope you find this new feature useful

CoolChaser had technical difficulties today (Dec 15th) with the server and some people might have seen the “Arrgh! We messed up!” message throughout the day. This has been fixed now. We apologize for the inconvenience and let us know if you are still experiencing the problem.

Hey everyone, ’tis the season – the Holiday season! To celebrate, we are having a Holiday theme contest and the winner will receive a brand new 8GB iPod Touch! Nice gift on the threshold of holidays, isn’t it?

So let’s go through the details, shall we?

1. Submit your theme:
   From today Dec 5th, 2008 to Dec 19th, 2008 Dec 26th, 2008* (submitting period), create a Holiday/Festivities theme (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years etc) using our Theme Creator.

   When saving the theme, tag it “contest_08” and you will be automatically entered to the contest.

   

   You can enter as many themes as you want!

   *Deadline is extended for one week so people will have more time to create post Christmas themes – you can still win even if you enter late!

2. The finalists:
   From Dec 12th, 2008 to Jan 3rd, 2009 (rating period) we will count the number of people who used the theme during that period and get the top 10 finalists.The submitting period and rating period will overlap for one week. That means we won’t count the number of people who used the theme the first week of the submission period so even if you enter a little late, you still have a chance to win! Also people won’t have to wait to use the themes before the contest ends – just wait for one week OK?

3. The winner:
   Among the top 10, we (the Coolchaser team) will choose the best theme based on the following criteria:
   a) use of color
   b) use of creative graphics
   c) use of space
   d) sense of style
   e) accurate representation of the Holiday/Festivity spirit

   The creator of that theme is going to be the winner!

4. Announcement:We will announce the winner on Jan 10th, 2009! Did I already say that the winner will receive a brand new 8GB iPod Touch?

There are some rules to this contest that you should be aware of:

1. You need to be older than 13.
2. All the materials used on the theme should either be your original or you have permission to use it from the original owner.
3. Make sure your CoolChaser account has a valid email so we may contact you. (so if you win we can send the prize to you!)
4. Entries containing lewd, offensive or pornographic content will be automatically disqualified, at CoolChaser’s sole discretion.
5. All contestants agree to allow us to promote them and their
   themes in any marketing related manner without any further compensation.
6. No mechanically reproduced mail-in entries are allowed and any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or the like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods.

But other than that, anybody from anywhere around the world can enter this contest (except for us – the CoolChaser team and their families!).

Happy competition and may the most creative one win!

Notes: Make sure you guys follow the instructions on the blog, or else you might not be properly entered in the contest. Putting “contest_08″ on the title of the theme instead of tagging it, or “contest 08″ without an underscore won’t be considered a valid entry.

Also, you can’t tag an old theme created before Dec 5th to enter the contest. It has to be a new one!

Due to popular demand, we now have a new option on our current theme editor to tweak the themes for MySpace’s 2.0 layouts! Here’s a glimpse of it

1) Dynamic editing for both Profile 1.0 and 2.0 at the same time!

Just toggle between 2 views and tweak your layout both for 1.0 and 2.0 simultaneously! Your setting from 1.0 will be carried over to 2.0 but you can still tweak some specific stuff just for 2.0 such as… (drum rolls)

2) Round corners option for 2.0 layouts! Hurray~!

Thanks to the great 2.0 HTML markup, you can easily create round corner layouts in a snap! Ain’t that cool? Without this option, it might have not been so exciting huh

3) Cool graphic option for the Basic Info Box!

Were you pissed off that the 2.0 layouts didn’t have network boxes? Why not use the network image on the Basic Info Box since there is a huge blank space in the middle! Not all network images will look good in the Basic Info Box, so we didn’t make that into a default but instead added an option to click if you do want the network box’s image to carry over to the 2.0 layout. Pretty neat huh?

We are going to continue adding cool options for 2.0 since there are lots of freedom so if you have any requests, let us know!

Thanks for your patience, we finally shipped out our profile 2.0 layouts yesterday! You can go to our layout editor and click on the Profile 2.0 tab and see how it looks! We are still tweaking with the conversion from 1.0 but here are some points again to note:

1) Network graphics and contact graphics are not supported in 2.0. MySpace took those boxes out so you will need to be creative and find where to use those graphics on other areas of the page! This isn’t a great example, but here’s something you can do:

Below is how the tattoo theme layout looks for 1.0

Now this is how it is converted to 2.0

Hmmm.. so it’s kinda boring right? Since there is no contact/network graphics.

So what I did was this:

A little less boring isn’t it? I put the network graphic inside the div.basicInfoDetails using advanced CSS in the theme editor. You can use the advance tab and enter your own css in there as we do insert advanced codes in both 1.0 and 2.0. Not all network graphics will work this way though, this example worked because it had a transparent background and was small. But there are so many things you can try it out so keep experimenting!

2) Tiny layouts ain’t tiny no more in Profile 2.0 – You can make it sort of tiny by going to Myspace’s Profile editor and select the tiniest width.

3) Banner layouts might look weird. We tried to use the exact code we use for Profile 1.0, but if you have a translucent layout and use Firefix, the banner will just disappear for Firefox users. (not sure if this is a bug or what) So we changed the code a bit so it will show in any browser, but if you had borders, background colors, and repeated somehow, it won’t be carried over. But theme creators can create new graphics just for the 2.0 themes so it will be compatible with both layouts this way! Not really sure the best solution yet, so we will play around a bit more!

OK i think there will be more bugs and glitches so let us know and we will try hard to perfect it as much as we can!

I know the hype is all about our Profile 2.0 release date LOL but before too late again, lemme introduce some of the great Thanksgiving themes that were created by our awesome theme creators!

thanksgiving by Sandi

Sandi is our new rising star! She has created so many beautiful Thanksgiving themes and it was so hard to pick only one! In fact, we could have just introduce all her themes here because they were all so very pretty! She already started creating Xmas themes so go check them out!

Happy Thanksgiving by Heather

Heather is another new rising star with so many great Thanksgiving themes, that I also had a hard time picking only one to feature! But no wonder because she actually is a specialist in creating beautiful primitive layouts! I love it when creators have their own distinctive style

HAPPY THANKSGIVING by 45Steve

We all know 45Steve creates awesome layouts, and here’s one that makes your stomach growl! Mmmmmm.. Turkey……with looooots of graaavy… LOL

Primitive Thanksgiving by ~ ♥ Tam ♥ ~

~ ♥ Tam ♥ ~ is also a very popular theme creator with so many beautiful Thanksgiving themes and she combines them with beautiful backgrounds. Since themes don’t usually come with backgrounds, I recommend you guys to go to her page and check out her layouts!

Thanksgiving Cute by Boutique: NOW OPEN!!

Our superstar Boutique: NOW OPEN!! keeps creating beautiful themes and here’s another great one to spice up your page for Thanksgiving day! It’s got glitter and animation – what more can you ask for!

Thanksgiving by Megan Herrick

I really like this theme by Megan because it is so colorful and pop!

Again, there are so many more wondering Thanksgiving themes, I mean the quality has been just going higher and higher everyday! When you see a theme that you really like, visit their profile page and praise them by leaving comments or giving them 5 stars! In fact I’m going to do that once I’m done blogging!

MySpace just released it’s awesome Profile 2.0 that is FINALLY web standard compliant! Not that it really matters to many people, but it sure diddly did to me and I’m loving it! It might take some time for everybody to convert because we all tend to not like changes but once you get used to it, you cannot go back anymore! Of course, I see on Tom’s blog that many people are saying, eh, not for me, went back to Profile 1.0. I know you are tempted to do that but let me tell you, web standard compliant means you can actually do MUCH more to your layout, you can see how the css zen garden does it! Come on people, it’s time to move to web standard compliant sites (in this case Profile 2.0) and start using FireFox! Yes, I’m talking to you, IE6 users! Anyway, the good news is that all of the layouts on our site are going to be Profile 2.0 compatible soon so stay tuned for the release!

Some points:

1) Profile 2.0 does not have any contact box or network box images. Those graphics from Profile 1.0 won’t be carried over. (But the banner layouts sorta works!)

2) The way you update profile is gonna be significantly different. We don’t have an automated way for a while, so people would have to manually copy and paste codes into the MySpace Profile 2.0 editor.

3) If you had CoolChaser layout from Profile 1.0, you would have to manually delete all the codes once you convert to Profile 2.0, as they disable all CSS styles and make them to plain text. (so you will have lots of nerdy codes showing up on your About me)

4) Did I tell you that you can’t use our current codes for Profile 2.0? So, we will be offering BOTH Profile 1.0 codes and Profile 2.0 codes on our site soon

Will let you know soon~!

EDIT:
5) Also, tiny layouts won’t work anymore, but you can shrink the layouts using MySpace’s Editor (you can select the width). And any advanced CSS won’t be carried over either, so theme creators will have to rewrite the code (or add code) for it to work on 2.0. This is because all the class names are different so you need to assign the style to the appropriate class… hope this makes sense!

Update [Nov 14]:

We have a not quite fully tested version of our CoolChaser layout editor that works with Profile 2.0. If you’re brave enough, please help test it out at http://staging.coolchaser.com

Post your experiences good or bad on our forums page

Update [Nov 15]: It’s released!

I know we should have featured them earlier since now people are already creating Thanksgiving themes! LOL but better now than never! Here are some of the cool Halloween themes that was created this year (we now have TONS if you count last year’s!) – here ya go!

Halloween Forest by 45Steve

Such a beautiful theme – very professional and sophisticated looking! 45Steve has lots and lots of other beautiful Halloween themes this year, reminds me of Lost John from last year! hee hee!

Vintage Halloween by Xina

Xina is currently probably the most popular theme creator! She is super creative and I see on her page that many people are leaving comments and requests for her

Halloween by Just April

OK, I’m a huuuuuge fan of Just April, I mean I love every single theme she created and I just had to feature her latest masterpiece! Love it!

zombie halloween default by ▓♪☆♡♥ღ↓Amy↓ღ♥♡☆♪▓

Another theme by ▓♪☆♡♥ღ↓Amy↓ღ♥♡☆♪▓ , so cute that you just wanna collect them and eat them all! LOL She has a collection of these default halloween themes on her page, so go check them out!

Sexy Halloween Carver by ☽☆Tammy☆☾

☽☆Tammy☆☾’s themes just stands out from the crowd – she always perfectly chooses graphics, fonts and colors on her themes to have a unified look! Something that sounds easy but is actually hard to do, you know!

Halloween Cute by Boutique: NOW OPEN!!

Boutique: NOW OPEN!! has been soooo popular on our site too so I had to introduce her Halloween theme as well! She has an amazing 500+ themes to choose from! Just amazing!

Again, there are soooo many more beautiful beautiful Halloween themes on our site, so go check them out! You can either search “halloween” on or layout editor or browse through our search page!

Hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween!

To anybody, no strings attached! What am I talking about? Well, those who didn’t want to register with CoolChaser couldn’t get our layouts before because we were afraid it was gonna kill our server with tons of unused background images. Well somehow our super engineer Weiwen came up with some magic way to solve this problem so we can give them out to anybody! This way you can just try our layouts out, see if you like them, and then if you do, become a member so you can save all your layouts, edit them, and create themes for thousands of other people to use

Hey CoolChasers, we got some really cool, fun and addictive games on our site now so if you get bored creating layouts, you can take a break and play some games! Of course, make sure you do your homework/work first! LOL

Here are some of the most popular games on our site!

Stunt Bike Delux (I just tried it and crashed within 16 seconds – I look like a dork! LOL)

Swim, Fish, Swim (So simple but sooo hard!)

Caravan Parking 2 (GAH! I’m not good at any of these games!)

GIRLZ PHOTOPLAY! (Yup yup, this game is more for me, I love puzzles. hee hee!)

And there are tons and tons of more games. Go check them out right now! And let me know how to play those games above LOL

More new stuff!! We added a comment section to everyone’s Coolchaser profile! Now when you visit someone’s profile you can tell them what you think of their layouts!

You will see the comment section like this:

Image Example

You can click “Leave a Comment” at the to of the last comment to add your own.

When you are on your “home page” where you see your layout history, you will see on the top right side the number of comments and votes you have!

Image Example

Sounds like fun right! If you see a layout you love, you should click on the creators profile link under the image and let them know in a comment!

Thanks to :

js-kit.com

We added Photobucket to the search for background images! Go check it out!

• TIP: If an image is less than 200px by 200px, it will not be stretched out to fit the screen. You can go in step 3. More Options and choose Repeat: “BOTH” and you will see the image tiled over the whole screen. You should try this option if you click on an image and nothing seems to happen. It’s probably so small you can’t even see it until you have it tiled.

I’ve already made lots of layouts using the Photobucket search!

We hope you love it too! Thanks photobucket! YOU ROCK!

Yup, that’s right, the auto embed is BACK! MySpace lifted the blocking of sites that do off site authentication (aka asking for people’s MySpace username and password) until they come up with their own tool! This is great news as we really realized that people loved the auto embed feature from our previous post. Now we have BOTH the auto embed AND codes!

The only thing still different from the auto embed we had before is that you need to do it twice for the profile and the blog. But that’s still much less work than doing it manually, right guys?

I hope you guys enjoy updating your layouts again!

Sachiko

Hi CoolChasers! As some of you may have noticed, we are no longer asking for MySpace passwords and just  giving out codes instead of offering the auto insert functionality.  Old users, just login as usual and you should be able to see all your layouts & theme history. You can also change your password to anything you like. New users, you can just create an account with CoolChaser and store all your layouts and themes for future use.

So what’s up with the change? Remember when we said we wanted to make it as easy as possible to update MySpace layouts? Personally, I had so much trouble doing it because I just didn’t know where to paste the code on MySpace which I blogged about long time ago and realized there were so many other people with the same problem. We were kinda inspired by Slide, and thought it was really cool that they can do an auto insert to update  profiles so we tried it out ourselves. It was such a big difference! To update the profile AND blog layout was a snap, against the old fashion of way of copying and pasting codes which took much more clicking and time (only one click vs 20 clicks… I’m not exaggerating!)

So why show codes now? Yeah yeah, I’m getting there! In order to do this cool instant update profile thing, we needed to ask for people’s MySpace user name and password. Most of the people were happy but some people were concerned which we totally understood! So we blogged about how we don’t store passowrds, also wrote on the help page that we are totally a safe site, and our loyal users were so helpful in explaining to new users that we are totally a safe site too on the forum – we love you guys! xoxoxo

However, no matter how hard we explained, some people still frowned upon the fact that we ask for MySpace passwords – all of them who never tried our site thou LOL And MySpace was of course, one of them and we heard from some sources that MySpace was going to block all the sites that do that. They are suffering so much from phishing sites out there so we understand their position too.

This is some good news: people who are hesitant to use our site can thoroughly enjoy it now, and to tell you the truth, it is also a bit of a relief that we don’t have to explain how safe our site is. For those who  miss the auto insert feature, we want to work with MySpace to come up with a safe and easy-to-use tool. Please contact MySpace to tell them you love CoolChaser, so they will work with us!

Let us know if you have any questions, or any feedback to the new system is greatly appreciated!

Check out this post in our forum to see what famous people have Coolchaser layouts on their Myspace page!

http://forums.coolchaser.com/forums/2/topics/460

Have you noticed a well known MySpace profile with a Coolchaser layout? You should post a link to it in the forum! Have you seen any other interesting profiles lately? I’m interested to see how different people use their imagination when creating layouts. Share the coolest profile you have ever seen with us!

Join our forum for more fun topics and share your talent for making layouts! You can also ask profile questions and get neat Myspace codes.

http://forums.coolchaser.com

Update: As of July 5pm PDT, Amazon reports this is now fixed. Please let us know if your backgrounds are still now showing.

We are using Amazon S3 to store some of our backgrounds. Unfortunately, this external service is down right now, but they should be back up within hours. This should only affect a small number of images (especially newly uploaded images).

You can check:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

for the latest updates. Thanks for your patience!

UPDATE 7.3.08: the update was successful -  check out the new text option on the layout editor!

CoolChaser will be down for around an hour July 3rd 3-4am PDT. Look out for cool new features after this brief down time!

Congrats Mozilla on releasing Firefox 3! Join millions of others and get yours today free! We couldn’t have developed CoolChaser, ClipClip nor Url.com without Firefox and we’re sure glad they’re continuing to lead the way in cool new features.

Mac users, the disappearing flash widgets bug is finally fixed. That’s another reason to upgrade

Howdy CoolChasers! We just launched a long awaited feature that lets you save themes into your “my favorite” themes so you can access them later on! We literally have thousands of themes, and finding a theme that you liked before was literally impossible!

It’s pretty self explanatory, but let me show you how to add themes to your favorites!

1) First make sure you are logged in (first time users, you have to create a layout first with us and then you will be logged in automatically)

2) If you see a theme that you like, you can either just use it right away, OR you can save it to your favorites for later use! I found this cool Metal Gear Solid 4 layout.

Not sure if I want to use it yet, so gonna save it to my favorites by clicking the “Add to Favorites” link on the “About this theme” box.

3) You can access what you saved in “My themes” tab.

That’s it! Isn’t that cool? This way, you can save bunch of them in there and make your final decision without flipping through many many pages to find the ones your liked before.

We are hoping to show more relevant results to “popular themes” by incorporating how many people marked a certain theme as their favorites also.

There could be some bugs, so let us know if you see things acting weird. Hope you enjoy!

Here’s a great tip for using Coolchaser.com to find an awesome background for your MySpace profile! Not all images on the internet are free. So when we make our layouts, we need to make sure the background isn’t under copyright. You can do this easily right in our editor. Once you search for a background, click on one to see what it will look like in the preview. You will see the background and you will also see the link to the site the background came from in the “About Me” preview so you can check to see if it’s ok to use that image. Here is an example of what it looks like when you are previewing a background image:

Where it says “background from Yahoo search result” is the link to the original site this background image came from. Click the link to visit that site. It will open in a new window, so you don’t have to worry about losing your place in the editor. I told you it was easy!

If you have any questions about it, checkout the help section at the bottom of Coolchaser.com. We want you to have an awesome layout, that’s why we are here!

We started off using space as a delimiter for tags(a.k.a. categories, keywords, labels). For instance, if you tag your clip “Bob Dylan songs”. It would appear as three separate tags: Bob, Dylan, and songs. If you want to choose a phrase as a tag, you wi have to trick the system by putting a hyphen between the words (e.g. Bob-Dylan-Songs), camelizing (e.g. BobDylanSongs), or something like that. Either way, it is kind of unnatural and not good for exploring by tags.  

We are switching over to comma delimited tags. Using the above example, you can tag it as “Bob Dylan songs, songs, music”. This will create three separate tags: Bob Dylan songs, songs, and music. You can use as many tags as you like. Hope it will make your life easier.

Happy clipping & tagging!

*UPDATE* You can now tile a small image in the editor to see what it will look like before you put it on your profile! (thanks Chao!) You can still watch my video to see how to use the options in the editor to make a small background image tile.

I sound like a big nerd, but you’ll get the idea!

Big thanks to http://screencast-o-matic.com for making this video possible.

I’m sure you tell your mom how much you love her everyday like I do but why not express your love on your MySpace layout as well? I found some cool Mother’s Day themes that will let you do just that!

Mother’s Day Rose Love by Lisa J.

I really like the banner on this layout, it’s totally a Mother’s Day card turned into a MySpace layout! I’m sure your mom will be happy seeing this on your page.

Pretty pink rose by Ashley

Can’t have the flower sent to your mom on time (uh-oh)? Well, in the meantime, send your mom a bouquet of pink roses by putting this on your page! Such a pretty theme with great use of graphics!

mother’s day by Rita

Everybody loves Betty Boop and so does your mom! A very fun and sparkly theme that will bring a smile to everybody’s face! (am I sounding too cheesy today? )

MOM by ♥Melinda♥

If you want something more different, this theme is for you! This is a more urban and chic theme for stylish moms! A very unique way of using black and white, I love it!

Happy Mothers Day by HappyCat

Another excellent theme that warms your heart, you can’t see it in this thumbnail, but it has such a sweet message on the network graphic too!

a mothers love by holli

More heart warming quotes! If you aren’t good with words like me, choosing this layout might help you express how you feel about your mom!

As usual, I couldn’t introduce all the other great Mother’s Day themes, but thanks to all of the talented people for sharing these beautiful themes!

It’s been a while since we had any updates on ClipClip, it’s not that we have forgotten about our loyal users – we were just a little too busy with other projects. But good news guys! We have our super engineer Weiwen working on ClipClip again and she has added some awesome new features!

The features are:
1. empower users to remove spam comments from their clips
2. empower group founders to remove spam comments from their groups
3. ask users to flag clips that aren’t belong to the group

That’s right, now you can remove or flag all those spams that were totally unrelated to your group.

For example, I created a group called “Clipclip tips” hoping people will share tips on how they use Clipclip back in Dec 13 2006. As of today, April 29, 2008, it had 37 spams out of 43 clips!! I asked people NOT to clip any spammy clips in the group but that didn’t stop the spammers at all Well, it took some time to remove all those damn spams but now I have my group back in control!

So those who were worried about creating a group, now you can have control over the contents so hope you create some interesting and useful groups to store your clips with your friends!

Happy clipping!

I love those Myspace Layouts where you can see the background through all the tables! I’m going to show you how to do this and make the perfect layout! If you are not sure what I mean here are two great examples of how to do this the right way:

Texas theme by Lost John:

Scroll theme by Chamorita:

NOW :: Here is how to make your own and make it look awesome!!

First: you have to create a layout in our Layout Editor.

Second: Choose how see through you want it using “Other Options”.

Third: You have to make sure a few things. Like, make sure you can read the text. If you can’t read the text, then try picking a different theme that will contrast with your background. As a general rule pick a theme with dark text if you have a light colored background. Or pick a theme with light text if you have a dark background. *UPDATE* If you have a MAC and are using Firefox, make sure you have the latest version of Firefox in order for your layout to display correctly!

EXAMPLES:

(This example is using Classic theme by KIKKI)

This next one is with “none” selected.

BAD EXAMPLE:

I hope this helps you make the best Myspace Layouts!!

Ask questions or show off your skills in our forum!

http://forums.coolchaser.com

On our sister site, Coolchaser.us, we now support other network sites such as Hi5, My Year Book, and Yuwie!

For example, this is my favorite Christmas layout made by Heathaaa!

http://www.coolchaser.com/layout/create/6095587

Now you can get layouts for other networks by putting the layout id to the end of the coolchaser.us url.

http://www.coolchaser.us/l/preview/6095587/

Isn’t that cool??

There are couple of bugs:

1) For Yuwie layouts with no network images, there’s a floating border So I think I need to take out those borders in general for Yuwie layouts. Go grab them now if you have a network graphic and a border which you want to use of Yuwie! (hint hint Lost John )

2) The font-family for the header is a bit screwed up for other networks.I think I had !important on places that I didn’t need. This will be fixed soon.

Let me know if you run into any other problems!

This is for all of you hard core MySpace Layout makers out there! I’m going to show you how you can make tons of layouts without having to change your profile every time you save. Let’s get started…

Step 1: Make the layout in the layout editor (duh!)

Step 2: Go to “Other Options” and UNCHECK the matching blog box. (see image example)

Step 3: Click “Update My Profile” and enter your info.

Step 4: When the security text appears, DON’T enter it. Instead, click the link just below the text entry box that says “Not working? You can update manually”. (see image example)

THAT’S IT! Clicking that link will take you straight to your Coolchaser layout history without changing your profile! Now go make tons of layouts and share them with all your friends!

Don’t forget, you can add the new Coolchaser Myspace Widget to your profile to show off all your awesome Myspace Layouts.

Get it HERE

Feel free to brag on your serious skills in our forum! You might end up being featured on our front page!

Coolchaser Forums!

Show Off Your Extreme Myspace Layout Designing Skills!

Take your addiction of making Myspace layouts to the next level. We have launched a new widget for your Myspace profile!

With this widget, now you can:

• Proudly display your CoolChaser.com layouts and themes on your Myspace profile!
• People can put your cool layouts on their own Myspace profile right from your page.
• If you make layouts for your friends, they can pick up their new layout from your profile page too!

Add the CoolChaser widget to your profile to start sharing your amazing creations with your friends. CLICK HERE!

I am going to show you an easy trick to fix comments that are too BIG!

Do you look at your profile and see that it’s sort of pushed to the left side, then scroll down further and find your comments section is huge? Or maybe your profile is now sooo wide that it’s off the screen and you have to scroll left and right to see everything!

OH NO! Well, no worries! HELP is here!

You can put this very easy code in your ‘Who I’d Like to Meet’ section and it will make the pics and videos people send you in a comment smaller.

<style>
.columnsWidening img {width:200px;}
.columnsWidening object, .columnsWidening embed {
width:250px !important;
height:200px !important;
}
</style>

If you use this code and your comments section is still wide, then you should scroll through and look for one that has a long link or a long line of text without spaces. That will also mess up your beautiful profile! If you find a comment like that, just delete it and everything will be normal again!

You can find more useful Myspace Codes in our forum!

http://forums.coolchaser.com/forums/3/topics/12

If you can’t find the code you are looking for, just ask! I’m always here to rescue your profile and save the Myspace day! Our forums are the best place to get help with your Myspace profile and learn cool things you can do with Coolchaser layouts. So don’t be shy to ask questions or show off your awesome layouts! See you there!

http://forums.coolchaser.com

Hey hey people! We just released another feature on our theme editor, the “tiny layout” option! Huraaaaay! We had couple of awesome tiny themes by Heathaaa! because she has special permission but now anybody can create tiny themes now! Here’s a screenshot of the new option on the theme editor!

Here’s a quick version that I made: (sorry not so good )

Try it out and let me know of any bugs! I especially want to know if it’s alright that I forced the picture sizes to not ruin the layout, I did that for the flash movies too. Not sure if it will work on all profiles though so go try it out!!

You can create tiny themes here:

http://www.coolchaser.com/themes/create2

Enjoy~!!!

UPDATE (3/14/07): We updated our site so your blog page and band page should be showing background images for any new layouts created. Try it out!

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Looks like MySpace hired a new ambitious engineer! (ooops sorry for the cynical tone ) Well, it seems like they are working hard to change some stuff that is messing up some of our layouts.

There were couple of changes:

1) They are converting all the single quotes (‘) into an unicode character &rsquo; for all the band profile pages and the regular blog pages.

So instead of a rule

background-image:url('http://somesite.com/image.gif');

It’s changing to

background-image:url(’http://somesite.com/image.gif’);

This prevents the rule to be read correctly and will basically ignore the rule and stop any images to show up correctly. How annoying!

It’s a bit a pain to fix it yourself so I would recommend inserting the layout again when we update our site’s code. Will announce on this blog whenever we are updated.

2) They are stripping out any non standard html tags

In order for users to easily change layouts, we had all our layout codes enclosed in a tag <coolchaser>. OK so this isn’t a valid html tag, but by enclosing in it, we were able to immediately recognize our code so we won’t delete any other tweak codes you might have had in your profile.

Anyway, last Saturday or so MySpace started stripping out all those non standard tags and made it into “…”

So, if you inserted your layout sometime around March 8 to 10th or so, changing your Coolchaser layout to a new one might have not worked.

This has been fixed on our site already. So if you find the layout replacement not working, manually delete the code, and try our site again to insert a new layout. Once you do that, the automatic update for any new layout from our site should work like before.

3) They are sooooooo slooooooooooowwww

OK, this is not a MySpace change perhaps, but MySpace has been painfully slooooooooowwwww lately. I mean we are sometimes slow because of so many traffic and since they have 100 times more traffic than us, it must be hard to have a fast and efficient site. Anyway, the sad thing is, when MySpace is slow, we become slow too

When myspace is slow, and we have lots of layout inserts waiting, and then when MySpace suddenly become fast again, we get slammed, and in the past few weeks, our servers couldn’t cope with that slamming and became even slower for up to a few hours after MySpace has recovered.

This might have resulted an error to show on our site such as “oops we messed up!” or simply the page doesn’t load to a new page and get stuck there for 6 hours (I get emails from people saying I waited for 5 hours or so, sorry about that!)

So we are going to have a “time out” thing soon, which is when we recognize the layout isn’t getting inserted, we will just switch automatically to show codes. I know, it’s a pain to manually copy that code, go to your profile, erase the existing code, and paste the new one, but at least I think people will feel like they are in control of the situation. Will also announce when this is implemented!

Phew! So that’s all for now, but will let you know when something like this happens again! Thanks again for trying us and for your loyalty! xoxoxox

Update 10.50pm Pacific Time: We’re back up, the scientists laborers have managed to turn the cart back on its wheels

Sorry guys, we seem to be having some technical difficulties. The scientists are currently working on it now.

Please try coming back again later today or tomorrow.

Thank you for your understanding.

Happy Valentines everyone! There have been so many cool Valentines themes so let me introduce some that I really liked!

Happy Valentines Day by Michelle

I like this theme because it uses the hearts on the banner and the name background (it’s animated!) Here I combined with a photo I found by searching “kiss” but any dark background would do

Valentine Onigiri by .|.<(+_+)>.|.

How cute!! Can it be any cuter really?? This theme uses a new feature that we just added on the theme editor too, you can make the network table’s background transparent! If you know what I’m talking about, you are a certified CoolChaser! LoL

Snoopy Valentine by Dawn LaRee

Dawn LaRee has been creating some really popular themes including her Cherry Blossom Theme (very beautiful!) I like all her themes but I like Snoopy so I picked this one

Valentine by Lydia

This is a great layout to show off your favorite background! Here I’m showing the one that Lydia used but you can put any kind of background and it will be your very own original Valentine’s layout!

Valentine Fairy by Carla

Here’s something different and sexy! Great use of the banner

pink be mine valentine by Heathaaa!

Ok last but not the least, here is Heathaaa!’s valentine’s theme that is super popular! Is your favorite color pink? Then this is a theme for you!

As always, there are sooooo much more wonderful themes created by our wonderful users and I’m sorry I couldn’t introduce all of them!