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eXile - Issue #179 - Feature Story - The eXile introduces amateur Whore-R Stories! - By Travis Jones Moscow-based alternativenewspaper Search the eXile All Issues This Issue This Author This Column | Advanced Search... Email thousands of beautiful Russian Ladies! Home | Archive | Club Guide | Restaurant Guide | Songs | Field Guide To Moscow | Political Trading Cards | About Us Browse Column (107) Previous (58) Next (47) The eXile introduces... amateur Whore-R Stories! By Travis Jones T hose of us who have sought female companionship over the Internet are familiar with some of the Russian language sites that cater to our interests: loving.ru, dating.ru, and omen.ru are among the most popular. Every few days I get an e-mail from dating.ru, which features the latest round-up of Russian girls looking to find a boyfriend over the Internet. After all, men who have Internet access probably have better job prospects. In fact, we're an elite; according to either The Moscow Times or my girlfriend, only 2% of Russians use the Internet at home. Most of the girls on these sites are here in Moscow or in St. Petersburg -- these cities have lots of bored office workers and students with access to scanners capable of uploading a flattering picture to the Internet. When you look over the pictures of girls from the provinces, you notice that most of them have sent almost identical pictures of themselves, scantily clad, in front of drapes. Somebody posed them for these shots, so they obviously work for porn sites. But which ones? Most of us remember the beginning of "amateur" Internet porn. A college-aged girl would scan a bunch of pictures and find some commercial site designer to make her site with an early version of FrontPage. A start-up credit card processing company on the web would be used to process payments. Doing this requires a degree of initiative and intelligence, which limited the number of these sites as attractive girls with these qualities can usually find basic office jobs. But soon studios that would hire several girls and offer monthly access started getting into the business. For girls in the provinces, these studios were really the only option, because DSL and cable modems were not yet available in most of provincial Russia. All of this changed when the Ifriends network opened its doors on Valentine's Day, 1998. Ifriends is a portal that offers 'exhibitors' easy-to-download software that lets them use a 50 dollar webcam to produce streaming video online. By '98, there were thousands of porn sites with only a few girls each; Ifriends offered a central meeting place for would-be porn stars and balding, 40 year old executives to exchange services for cash. Women would use a text chat to lure men into a 'private show' in which they could then take off their clothes. Registered members got access to archive pictures, which were often superior to the pictures offered at a price on the other sites. For its trouble, iFriends collects 50% of their revenues. It is extremely easy for a girl to list herself on iFriends; as an experiment, I once pointed a Logitech webcam that I had hooked up to my old 233 at my ex-girlfriend's bunnies and let them prance around online in front of perverts from Missouri for nearly an hour. This the rabbits did free of charge. A year or two after iFriends opened its doors, girls from other countries started to appear on the site. These girls, rather than working alone from home, were employed by studios that would set up cameras and beds with computers. This was nothing new, but they used the same free software and cheap cameras that had been available to everyone for years. A cursory glance at Ifriends today reveals that there are 1700 girls logged on. Most of these girls work at studios in Russia, Romania, Latvia and the Czech Republic. For whatever reason, certain cities seem to predominate in the number of girls they feature, particularly Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Riga, and Bucharest. Trying to talk to such girls in the "guest chat" room can often prove nearly impossible. They are given a list of things to say when someone comes into their "room" in order to get them to log on for a private video session. You can't really take offense to this: these girls don't have a clue what you're saying. In addition, studios usually forbid girls from talking extensively to guests if the guests don't start paying. Most of the girls stick pretty closely to their scripts. Fortunately, their pictures are always available. After having the same conversation about twelve times, it is possible to find a girl who actually wants to talk. In this case, she's usually interested in talking to an English-speaker who doesn't just babble about sex. Sometimes not. Sending a picture usually helps. I found out about Camcontacts last year from a girl in Piter who had posted a personal ad on dating.ru. These girls are attractive but not particularly better looking than other Russian girls their age; in other words, just because they are "porn stars" in a sense doesn't mean they have any more luck than other girls in real life. Go to dating.ru and you'll always run into the telltale curtains hanging in the background. These sites only make money when you pay by the minute for live nude chat. That's pretty pointless for anyone who's actually in Russia, as a fifteen minute session can cost you as much as a venture with a whore from Omen.ru I first met Anna two weeks ago on Camcontacts. She was a fair-skinned, 22-year old bleached blonde who moved to the golden ring city of Kostroma to escape the husband she left in Kirov; her three-year-old daughter lives with her. She attended a local "technological university" and works some hours at a factory that makes processed meat, in addition to her chatroom income. Anna won't tell me how much she makes, but the average chatroom girl working on her own makes about $800 a month. Studio girls make half this or less. Since most people in Kostroma Oblast make less than $200 a month, chatroom girls are well-paid by local standards. The hours can be long; Anna usually works for 12 hours a day or more; but most of these hours consist of waiting for someone to come in to watch her take off her clothes and finger herself for a few minutes. I invited myself out to Kostroma to visit Anna. She was very happy with this and selected a "hearts" motif for her yahoo pager background. I'd never seen the city, which is about a seven-hour train trip from Moscow. According to the only information available in English at waytorussia.net, the only train to the city of 280,000 leaves slightly before midnight, although there are regular busses. I found several hotels in the city: a "Guest House" that offers doubles for 50 dollars a night or 5 dollars an hour, an old Intourist place for 500 rubles a day that Anna seemed to like, and a boat-hotel for 300 rubles a night which she claims is frequented by the city's prostitutes. That Saturday evening I took the train to Kostroma. Platzkart is 12 dollars or so each way whereas Kupe is about 18. The train went via Yaroslavl; the two cities are about 80 km apart from each other but not connected by a major highway. I wanted to spend a few hours in Yaroslavl, a city I'd never seen, so I took the second class car as far as Yaroslavl and spent a few hours at a divey local discotheque called "Partizan," where I was rescued from some thugs by an English major at the university and her friends. The Armenian taxi driver informed me that the local whores ran at about 500 rubles apiece. I went platzkart to Kostroma from there. The scene out the window was run-down izbas and the occasional factory. The single-family houses struck me, probably because I hadn't left Moscow since June. Anna and I played e-mail tag while I wandered around town after checking in at the Kostroma Hotel. This hotel, which wasn't listed on the city site, has several types of rooms, including suites, first, and third class. First class rooms are $16 a night for a single with a bath, shower, tv and phone. Third class rooms are $10, but you have to share a bathroom. The hotel was out of first class rooms so I opted for the $10 room. Kostroma looked better than I'd expected, more European than most Russian cities. It's run-down like most of Russia but lacks the spiritually barren pressed-concrete architecture that characterizes many Russian cities. It was once one of the principal Commercial cities along the Volga and is as old as Moscow. It has a central open-air market and kremlin that are both several hundred years old. Perhaps most amazing about the city is that it has so many good, inexpensive restaurants, including an 'Art Cafe' where the only art on the wall consists of pictures of (clothed) young women. Most of the food is standard Russian fare, although there are two decent Pizzerias and an English restaurant called Camelot. The pizza at the pizzeria doesn't have any tomato paste, but unlike most french fries in Moscow it comes with a bottle of ketchup, spelled 'katsoop' on the menu. I guess this serves as a proxy for the tomato paste. I went to a disco in the center of town where the cover was 40 rubles and beers were 25-30. There was almost nobody there except some whores in the lobby that I chatted up for half an hour or so. Some guy they knew showed up and bugged them for $10 blowjobs, picking at Polina's fishnet stockings, which she was wearing over a regular pair of tights. Two of them had phone numbers, another did not. Not all of Kostroma made it into the 20th century and many people still don't have a home phone. When I returned from the disco, I found a message from Anna -- she had gone to work at 10, got my message, and come to the hotel only to leave when I didn't come back. The next day I waited in the morning in the lobby of the hotel for Anna to come. She arrived around 11:30. She was a bit of a disappointment -- she had looked rather young in the whitewashed pictures that she had posted on the web site. In real life she had crow's feet and could have passed for 30. She was fairly tall, standing about 5'8" or 5'9" in her high-heeled 'fuck me' boots. She was wearing a sweater with a generic label in English and skin-tight pants. She had bleached blonde hair and was smoking Next cigarettes. 'We need go to hospital..." she said. I wondered what was wrong. Apparently she had some minor malady that required a trip to the gynecologist. I'd never started a date with a trip to the gynecologist, but the rates posted on the wall were reasonable enough -- appointments were less than three dollars, surgery only $20 or so. After Anna was given a clean bill of health, we made our way to her friend Olya's apartment. Olya was also a chat girl. Anna said it was Olya's birthday, so we bought a cake on the way for Olya's place. Olya wasn't home, but her mom was, and fed us soup, tea, cranberry juice, and a shot each of home-made Ukrainian vodka which tasted a bit like Swedish Aquavit. While we waited around, we proceeded to eat half the cake. Nobody bothered to light any candles or make a wish. Olya's cat and 18-year-old son were home. She had a husband too, but he was away. The apartment was a standard one-room place on the first floor of a Stalin-era building. In the one-room place dwelt: Olya, Olya's mom, Olya's son, Olya's husband, and Olya's cat. "Nice kitty," I told Anna. "Oh -- you can have her -- there isn't any room for her." I would have considered it if not for the big, fat ticks on the cat's back. Olya came home. She was seven months pregnant, and looked it. She had short, dyed blonde hair, pretty lips and a cute nose, but her pregnant-mom overalls and crowded apartment weren't exactly stimulating. Besides, she looked pissed off, even before I offended her by saying "Foo!" when she lit a cigarette, my middle class instincts kicking in. Olya ignored me from then on. She didn't speak any English anyway, and wasn't as willing to listen to my bumbling Russian as her Mom had been. Olya had bigger problems; she was in the middle of a divorce. "Don't worry," Anna said. "Olya smoke last time pregnant." After playing with the cat and toddler for a few minutes, Anna and I took off for her studio. I never actually got a look at the studio; I waited outside the studio and had a cigarette. It was in an anonymous residential building; the entrance was a standard korpus that resembled half of the Stalin-era korpusi in Moscow. Anna got her friend Lena, who went to a bar with us where she explained how the girls' set-up worked. Lena had long, chestnut-brown hair, a round face and what she described as a Kazakh looking nose. She had an energetic personality; it was hard to assess her body under the large winter coat she was wearing. I forget the name of the bar, but it wasn't bad for a city with the size and average disposable income of Kostroma. Lena was of average build; Anna was much more fit but looked older. Lena showed me her passport; she had just had her 23rd birthday. Anna claimed to have lost her passport in a taxi. There was hardly anybody in the bar, but the waitress insisted that if we wanted a table that we had to pay at least 300 rubles between the three of us. I almost laughed at the low minimum, but then again, nothing on the menu was more than fifty rubles. Lena, Anna and I proceeded to drink Baltika 3's. Lena's English was much better than Anna's, and so we were able to talk about their workplace. The studio had three rooms; one with pink drapes, one with blue ones, and one with green ones. Each room had a bed; there were eight computers. Each woman operated a computer; customers came rarely enough so that nobody had to worry about sharing the bed that served as a setting for most of the strip-tease. Women could come and go as they pleased: there were about 30-40 women, total, but many only worked part-time. Others worked 12 hours a day. Lena practically lived there and at her sister's place. They didn't have a steady flow of customers, but when men did log in, they usually spent three or so dollars a minute. Everything was optional; the girls didn't have to finger themselves, use dildos, or anything, but usually did, as not doing so would mean that they didn't attract men into their chat rooms. Men usually had strange requests. One request Lena remembered was that she put on 3 times as much makeup as average and drink vodka -- somebody out there gets off on Russian-slut stereotypes, I guess. She was amused when a foot fetishist came to her -- all he did was pay to jerk off and look at her feet while she sat back and reviewed English words. A subsequent look at the site revealed that most of the archived pictures were soft-core if they were porn at all, although one did feature Olya holding a dildo. Lena and Anna insisted that they weren't bi, although a look at the site revealed a few pictures of them naked together. Lena told me she'd grossed $1,200 last month. Her studio takes 60%, so her net was about $500. She said there was a studio in Moscow that only took 40%. The girls supplemented their incomes by courting the interests of repeat customers, who were sometimes the object of their romantic fixations. Anna liked one guy from Michigan, and one from the west end of Alexandria, Virginia; both had sent her things and talked to her extensively on the phone. After we'd had more drinks, I drew a map showing Anna how far it was between Michigan and Virginia, and scribbled www.greyhound.com for her on a piece of paper. I asked why the girls didn't log on from home alone. "I have a computer at home and can log in whenever I want to -- you could do the same and buy a camera and work from home." They didn't understand; they thought I wanted to set up a studio. "If you set up a studio, we might work for you but only if we stop working at our studio...we don't want our boss to see us online working somewhere else," Lena said. Unfortunately, there are more barriers to getting online than just the prospect of buying a computer with a 50-dollar web-cam. As it had become so apparent at Olya's place, living conditions were often too cramped to work from home. Anna had a son that she didn't want exposed to her work, and Lena didn't have her own place. Rental properties were hard to find for less than $200 because most people inherited their places from the Soviet era and effectively lived in condominiums. High speed Internet access was difficult to set up, and dial-up access required a phone line. The biggest problem, however, was that of getting paid by Ifriends or Camcontacts. Ifriends is in America and Camcontacts in America and the UK, and both mail paper checks to their chat-hostesses rather than wiring them the cash. Getting a check from the US or UK and cashing it in Russia can take months even in a large city; Kostroma's banks don't have many of the features that those in Moscow do. To get paid, the money would have to be deposited to a US account by a friend and then sent to them via Western Union. I invited the girls back to my hotel. "We have to work tonight -- we are going to Moscow for several days so we need the money." This was news to me: I knew that a trip was planned but Anna was undecided as to whether or not she wanted to go to Moscow. I asked her how much she planned to make that night. She said that it could be as little as 200 rubles but as much as $50 dollars, but probably more like $10. The next day, they saw me off at the gray, Soviet-era bus station; they would take the train later on that day and arrive in the morning. So there you have it: the girls didn't want to come back to my hotel with me because they couldn't pass up an opportunity to make a dollar an hour or less. Unfortunately, my Megafon account has run out of money, so they won't be able to get through to me. Anna wasn't nearly as attractive in real life, although her friend was cute. Unfortunately, we all know how hard it is to switch friends. 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About Powered by TypePad January 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Right Wing Blogs Power Line Easongate Captain's Quarters Instapundit.com National Review Online Little Green Footballs La Shawn Barber's Corner Michelle Malkin HughHewitt.com Left Wing Blogs Democracy for Virginia The Blogging of the President: 2004 This Modern World Democratic Underground Eschaton Daily Kos News Dissector - Danny Schechter's Blog Wonkette Independant Blogs Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Weblog RConversation Sisyphean Musings PressThink Blogging Ethics the weblog handbook: practical advice on creating and maintaining your blog :: excerpt :: blog ethics cyberjournalist blogger ethics « The Pleasures Of Wonkette | Main | Hurricane Katrina Relief » July 28, 2005 cool stuff to try Posted from the U.S. you must try 2 new things now: google earth and watch machinima movies do this. now. it's the beginning of the end of the beginning people. also - podcasting, videoblogging - it's all so yesterday. i want google in the brain. also - myspace.com - hmmm. does anyone in washington have any idea what's going on? a whole new way is happening. also - if we hate bad tv shows, like the one where they are trying to replace the dead lead singer of INXS with some karaoke reality tv freaks, can't we just blog them out of existence? join me. also- can we blog bad presidents out of office if they just suck at their jobs? i think jefferson would be into it, i really do. also - does anyone remember that we have a war on in iraq but the poor guys we have out in the field are getting shot at and bombed by insane suicide bombing teenagers? is this war on terror like cleaning up the ocean with a sponge? also - can't some math professor genius at princeton or mit show the government that for every terrorist we kill we automatically spawn 10 more? this is like playing quake where the computer keeps adding new enemies - there is no endgame. are we going to just kill everyone? this war on terror is like trying to fight file sharing - it's a distributed, peer-to-peer network that just bobs and weaves all over the place. does osama even matter now that he started this whole viral terrorist bug spreading worldwide? the whole thing is a mess - we need new ways to deal with this problem. also - chimera - we really need to not do that. it's really just bad and creepy and let's not go there. please. -r July 28, 2005 in Web/Tech | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2898284 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference cool stuff to try : Comments FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Psychological assault forces Malkin to reveal Crowdist roots Populist profiteer who infiltrated right unmasked 3:17 PM 8/21/2005 ANUS News San Francisco (NNN) - A two week campaing of information terror culminated early yesterday with the Michelle Malkin award-winning blog disconnecting its trackback and response features as a consequence of ANUS activist antagonism. By taking refuge behind social pretense, and claiming to be victim, Malkin is validating claims that despite her right-wing pedigree, she is in fact an instrument of class/tribal revolt much as her leftist counterparts are. Modern "conservatives" most commonly claim to be a bastion against a cluster of related mentalities, including Marxism and pacifism and rabble revolt, which are propelled by the ego-drama necessary to compensate for lack of superior traits in any form. The undifferentiated crowd will always be slaves to the machine, and they know it, and hate anyone who is not condemned to such a life. While Malkin insists that her "conservative" agenda would reverse this, her agenda in fact supports the very same mass revolt. ANUS activists were determined to prove this. Using a scientifically-calculated mixture of gay pornography, racist innuendos and scatological/morbid humor, ANUS activists deliberately pushed Malkin and her blog maintainers past the tolerance threshold for socially offensive material. At this point, as psychological profiles such as the Stockholm study suggest, Malkin and staff violently reversed their positive outlook into a negative, paranoid one. Victory was achieved with a notice posted on the Malkin blog. "We've had to turn the trackbacks feature off while Michelle is away. There was some nasty porno spam in the trackbacks and some other problems. I believe that Michelle's kind assistants are working on the problem and hope to turn it back on when she returns. I'm sorry for the inconvenience," said the statement, attributed to someone named "Betsy" (probably a bot, since even the conservatives prefer minkier names for their women these days). Chuckling, ANUS activist Iconoclast, back from temporary confinement in the FMP room of the ANUS compound's dank and fetid basement, conjectured about the psychology of Malkin's staff. "I like how they said 'some other problems,'" he said. "When the enemy gets vague, you know they've been forced into hiding something. What they're hiding here is that they're afraid to cross the taboo line and admit that most people are idiots, and that the idea of a Filipina conservative married to a Jew is ludicrous cover for their actual Crowdist activities." ANUS CTO (Chief Trolling Officer) Penisbird voiced his own sympathy for the situation. "People try to distract us with labels and orientations," he said. "The truth is that politics is a question of personal integrity. Those who can lead do so, and the rest form masses to tear those others down because they hate them for being beautiful and smart and capable, and we call this mass revolt 'Crowdism.' Malkin is clearly a Crowdist, no matter what she insists." Apparently, the onslaught of sodomy, feces and burning crosses caused profound psychological change in the fifth columnist "conservative" Crowdist. Dr. Siegfried Freund, a goyish psychologist from Eastern Philadelphia, summed up his conclusion this way: "Burroughs says in Naked Lunch that the greatest hazard for an agent is merging with his cover story. Subversives like Malkin and her Jew penis, Craig Newmark, sublimate their actual intent, but when they're forced up against the thread of Crowd disapproval, they snap back to the fight and in doing so, reverse polarity." Since the assaults began, Malkin's comments have veered away from her traditional reactionary brain-in-a-bucket conservatism and have become increasingly like cocktail party small talk or the rhyming sentiments written in greeting cards. Dr. Freund predicts that within 48 hours she will own a pair of Birkenstocks and support al-Qaeda. In the meantime, ANUS infoterror group chalks up another success for its mixture of politics and antagonism that treats Net publishing the way it was meant to be treated: like a masochistic, incontinent, HIV positive gimp. About ANUS The American Nihilist Underground Society advocates nihilism, or a removal of interpretive layers from our perception of physical reality, as a means of transcending neurotic crowdism and thus achieving adaptive success. It has been online since 1995 and attracts thousands of readers daily with articles about philosophy, politics, music and culture. Every major internet filtering service bans anus.com, and many "anti-hate" organizations decry it as an anti-crowdist site which must be censored and its perpetrators bankrupted. http://www.anus.com/ About Nihilism Nihilism is the belief that nothing we perceive has Absolute value; reality exists, but beyond its inherent meaning to us as the physical container of our existence, it has no significance outside of what we perceive. "The world is my representation," indeed. When we strip away all of the values projected onto physical reality and its outcomes, we are left only with personal ideal and natural ideal, and bringing the former into adaptation with the latter is the lifetime task to which nihilism is a gateway. http://www.nihil.org/ About Michelle Malkin Nationally-syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin began life by slandering liberals for the Los Angeles times, but was quickly promoted when it was discovered that her conservatism infused with leftist core values was a convenient propaganda talking point for the NWO, which supports Crowdist revolt in all its forms as heck, it's good for business. Currently Malkin churns out dreary editorials endorsing the Same Old Failing "Solutions" to problems that never go away, and when she's not busy with that, posts dramatic crap on her blog that people link so they don't have to read it. She is married to Craig Newmark, a fat Jew with one Catholic grandparent. http://michellemalkin.com/ Posted by: thomas | August 22, 2005 "For every terrorist we kill we automatically spawn 10 more?" Indeed, I too would like to see such an equation. But I wont hold my breath. Last time I checked they hadn’t thought up a "political theme" algorithm. Just as the claim of 100,000 dead was an accepted theme (albeit the product of dodgy research) so too is the belief that 10 fascists pop up every time you knock one off. Besides being impossible to verify. It’s also an example of how something can be repeated enough by some so that others assume it to be true. Usually at this point we can start to see who the rationalists are and who are the zealots. The latter will concern themselves with trying to defend the integrity of the theme. The former, realizing if a theme's been accepted once its been accepted a thousand times, wonders what other bit of conventional wisdom has no basis in reality. On a totally seperate note.. When a conservative calls out liberals - that’s slander. And when a Liberal calls out conservatives - That’s bravely speaking truth to power. Ok.. Just wanted to be clear on that one.. Seriously though - What I notice to be the difference between the two in this regard is - while appearing to be equally as pointed - at the end of the day the conservative looks at the smack he was talking about liberals in the context of it being humor. A fun way to make a point and watch a liberal melt down at the same time. On the other hand -Liberals tend to actually believe all the stereotypes they use when talking republican smack. Which isn’t much of an issue.. At least not till election day. When dems are running against a stereotype and the republicans against a person. Why should anyone be surprised when the person running against the stereotype, so to speak, gets his or her ass handed to em by the Republicans? If the dems put the same effort into policy that they put into pandering to each and every identity group - as well as came off as serious about defending the rest of the country as they are about going to the wall for something like Roe v Wade. People might start thinking of them again in terms of a serious alternative or even majority party. Posted by: Mike | August 26, 2005 Post a comment If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In You are currently signed in as (nobody) . Sign Out Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Comments: Categories Current Affairs Easongate Fixin' The World Freedom of Speech The Media Weblogs Web/Tech World Affairs Recent Posts George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People Fixing The World Archives December 2005 October 2005 September 2005 July 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 Subscribe to this blog's feed Add me to your TypePad People list Recent Comments Don Kosloff on Fixing The World
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createBlog.com > Rock Star (div) Help - Search - Member List - Calendar Full Version: Rock Star (div) createBlog.com > Resource Center > Myspace StanleyThePanda Dec 1 2005, 8:00 PM 1. empty your "about me" and "General", "music", "movies" and all that stuff, otherwise it will show up under the image, because I cant get it to go away so I made the image longer. :) 2. Dont jock the code yo. 3. post it in your about me, use the "Manual submit button" in the scripts section to get it on your page and if you want to take the layout off use the "manual edit button" Also edit everything that needs to be edited, like the friend id ######'s and the about me, friends, comments and music sections I put, you can also change the names of the sections if you'd like Enjoy! Click here to install this Myspace layout. Retro_Love Dec 1 2005, 11:04 PM Omg. I am definetly going to use this one! Awesome Job!! xFashion_Rejectx Dec 2 2005, 9:36 AM Loving the layout! <3 glamourrocker Dec 2 2005, 2:08 PM hi this is reli kewl but it doesnt even work cos wen u say u gota submit theres no submit button? cood u message me www.myspace.com/glamour_rocker tellin me how to do it please xo Julie. Dec 2 2005, 2:21 PM ^ QUOTE 3. post it in your about me, use the "Manual submit button" in the scripts section to get it on your page and if you want to take the layout off use the "manual edit button" --- very nice . mzkandi Dec 2 2005, 2:25 PM Very nice, Kara!!!!! *adds to favs* glamourrocker Dec 2 2005, 3:09 PM there is no submit button tho? mayb its jus my myspace i dno StanleyThePanda Dec 2 2005, 3:24 PM ^ no, go to the myspace scripts on CB and search for manual....h/o I'll just give you the link. http://www.createblog.com/forums/http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=84164 Follow those directions. Thanks everyone Szeh Dec 2 2005, 8:44 PM I like this layout Kara. :D I was tempted to accept it although I am a Xanga Staff. xD x3rejeccct Dec 4 2005, 1:07 AM im not sure how to remove this layout from my page. i understand the concept of putting it on, just dont understand how to remove it. if you could get back to me that would be great. thank you :DD <3 StanleyThePanda Dec 4 2005, 5:45 PM ^ its just like putting it on, except you use a different javascript code http://www.createblog.com/forums/http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112376 x3rejeccct Dec 5 2005, 3:07 AM oh thank you so much i understand now. :DD Madame C Dec 7 2005, 7:50 PM Kara, this is seriously the best myspace skin we have in the forums. Thank you sooooooooooooooooo much for sharing it with us. StanleyThePanda Dec 8 2005, 4:09 PM ^ You're welcome... Expect more! mzkandi Dec 8 2005, 4:12 PM ^ More....wheeee :D x_bang_x Dec 8 2005, 4:50 PM Murr. I'm just having a problem with my comments. x_x They're still showing up StanleyThePanda Dec 8 2005, 10:02 PM Try adding this: .Main { position: absolute; left: 50%; top: 125px; width: 800px; z-index: 1; margin-left: -400px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: 9FC9EB; overflow: hidden; } .comments { visibility: hidden; display: none; } To the code breakmywords1 Dec 9 2005, 3:43 PM i tweaked the code a bit (i changed the picture and the font style and size and colors) and now the manual submit button doesnt work. i guess its because i messed up the html code but i figured it would still work. i read the instructions about using the manual submit button and tried both ways but i cant get it to work. any suggestions? here's the code> <style type="text/css"> body,table, td, li, p, div, textarea {font-family:courier new; font-size:6pt; color:85B24D; font-weight:none;} body {background-image:url("http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/strawberry7395/VINTAGE.jpg"); background-attachment:no-fixed; background-color:ECF0D5; background-repeat:repeat; background-position:center; scrollbar-arrow-color: ECF0D5; scrollbar-track-color: ECF0D5; scrollbar-face-color: ECF0D5; scrollbar-shadow-color: 85B24D; scrollbar-highlight-color: 85B24D; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: 85B24D; scrollbar-3dlight-color: 85B24D;} .text {font-family:courier new; font-size:7pt; color:85B24D; font-weight:none} body div div table td { display: none } .navibar {display: none } .navbar { display: none; } div div table tr td a.navbar, div div table tr td font {display: none;} .hidethem {visibility:hidden; display:none;} .title { color: 415F1B; font: 12px courier new; font-weight: bold; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: -1px; padding: 0px; background-color: B6E27F; text-align:center;} div { font-family: courier new; color : 86B34E; font-size : 8pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid 000000;} .Main {visibility:hidden; display: none;} .comments {visibility:hidden;display:none;} div div table tr td a.navbar, .navbar, div div table tr td font, .lightbluetext8 {display: none;} td ProfileMusic, td ProfileMovies, td ProfileMusic, .whitetext12 {display: none;} strong, b {font-weight: bold; color:415F1B;} a{font-family:courier new; font-size:7pt; font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;} a:link{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a:active{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a:visited{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a:hover{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a.redlink{display: none;} a.redlink:link{display: none;} a.redlink:active{display: none;} a.redlink:visited{display: none;} a.redlink:hover{display: none;} a.navbar{display: none;} a.navbar:link{display: none;} a.navbar:active{display: none;} a.navbar:visited{display: none;} a.navbar:hover{display: none;} a.man{font-family:courier new; font-size:7pt; font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;} a:link{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a:active{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a:visited{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} a:hover{color:FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier new} .Main { visibility:hidden; display: none;} .blacktext12 { visibility:hidden; display:none } body div table tbody tr td font {visibility:hidden;} .navbar {visibility:visible;} .navbar font {visibility:hidden;} table td div div font {visibility:hidden;} </style> <style> table, tr, td {background-color: transparent; border: 0px; padding:2;} table table {border: 0px;} table table table {border-top: 0px solid; border-bottom:0px solid; border-left:0px solid; border-right: 0px solid; border-color: AEEB70; background-color: ECF0D5; background-image:url(); padding:0;} table table table table{border: 0px;} </style> <div class="bg" style="position: absolute; left:0px; top:85px; width:1000px; height:1000px; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/strawberry7395/VINTAGE.jpg"border=0> </div> <div class="content" style="position: absolute; left:363px; top:220px; width:326px; height:379px; overflow: auto;"><center> <p class="title">Navigation:</p> <b>{</b> <a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=12806385">VIEW PICTURES</a> <b>}</b><br> <b>{</b> <a href="http://mail8.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.message&friendID=12806385">SEND MESSAGE</a><b>}</b> <b>{</b> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=12806385">ADD TO FRIENDS</a> <b>}</b><br> <b>{</b> <a href="http://chat.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messenger&strDestinationUserID=12806385&sendType=0">INSTANT MESSAGE</a> <b>}</b> <b>{</b> <a href="http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.addtogroup&friendID=12806385">ADD TO GROUP</a> <b>}</b><br> <b>{</b> <a href="http://mail8.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.forward&friendID=12806385">FORWARD</a> <b>}</b> <b>{</b> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.addToFavorite&friendID=12806385">ADD TO FAVORITES</a> <b>}</b> <b>{</b> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=RateImage.UserRating&UserID=12806385">RANK ME!!</a> <b>}</b><br> <br> <p class="title">ME.</p> <p class="title">I HAVE FRIENDS.</p> <p class="title">COMMENTS ARE NICE.</p> <p class="title">MUSIC IS BRILLIANT.</p> </div> thats the code without all my information blackxpearl Dec 16 2005, 10:14 AM i dont get the manual submit buton thing =/ and the comments thing, idk what to put there =/ edit// nvm I got the manual submit thing I just don't get hte comment box =/ edit//ooh nvm woot I got the comment box =D thislayout is AWSHOMEEEEEEE! x.x sorry for any typos, my mom is sitign right behind be so I can't see what I'm typing x.x dumblond9142 Dec 21 2005, 11:46 PM i can get the code for the Manual Submit, but .. 1) its different than is shown here and 2) i dont know where in the code to put it. also.. i copied the code that is shown here and i put it in the code, but i STILL dont know where in the code im supposed to put it lol do i just put it anywhere?? StanleyThePanda Dec 22 2005, 12:04 AM You put it in your about me. dumblond9142 Dec 22 2005, 12:15 AM which code??? the one on the link you gave or the one that shows up on mine>? rdimt Dec 23 2005, 12:31 AM This is a super awesome layout,i love it so much! however,I'm new to this div layout stuff so I'm not sure what to do...I got the manual submit button but i'm having trouble w/ the comments section.I added a comment box and then when i try to submit my profile,it says "error: you must be someone's friend to leave a comment". So basically,I think I need a step by step "how to display this layout",if anyone could please help me? thanks! rdimt Dec 23 2005, 2:45 AM Okay so I got most of the layout but I can't figure out what comment box code to use 'cause the manual submit button won't let me .Ah,so confusing! StanleyThePanda Dec 23 2005, 11:06 PM QUOTE(rdimt @ Dec 23 2005, 12:31 AM) This is a super awesome layout,i love it so much! however,I'm new to this div layout stuff so I'm not sure what to do...I got the manual submit button but i'm having trouble w/ the comments section.I added a comment box and then when i try to submit my profile,it says "error: you must be someone's friend to leave a comment". So basically,I think I need a step by step "how to display this layout",if anyone could please help me? thanks! change the number of the javascript you used for the manual submit, change it to 2 or 3. aka_tester Dec 26 2005, 4:59 AM This is a very nice layout but I the manual submit button never works =\ EyEsparKLNlayOUTs Dec 26 2005, 11:12 PM This is a verry coooool layout renier Jan 2 2006, 5:28 PM this porfile rocks!!! ;] ive had it since u first put it up!!! This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. 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