MySpace Falling Objects

Of all the things you can do with your myspace page, I happen to think that myspace falling objects are the coolest. They add a dimension to your page that plain graphics just can't achieve. But like any aspect of myspace design, there are a few tips to follow in order to make sure that your myspace falling objects don't make your page fall flat on its face.

Before you begin, you have to make sure that your page isn't too busy to begin with. That's because myspace falling objects do add a lot of "busy-ness" to a web page. If your page is full to bursting with pictures and graphics and glitter words, then the Myspace falling objects are only going to ensure that nobody will be able to look at your page for more than 30 seconds before their eyes start tearing. So first take a good, hard look at your page, and decide what's more important to you - adding myspace falling objects, or keeping the pix and graphics you already have.

Once you've done that, there are a few things to be aware of before you cut and paste those little myspace falling graphics onto your page.

The first thing you should be aware of is size. While you usually cannot customize the size of the graphics, generally speaking they do come in large and small. While you might think it's not that important (after all, even the "large" graphics are pretty small), the truth is that it is, and that the smaller the graphic, the better it will look on your page. Now, that obviously doesn't meant that the pictures should be so small you can't even tell what it is. But more often than not, the larger graphics totally overwhelm the page, not to mention the text written on it.

I'll give you an example. I was checking out falling objects, and I saw the cutest little guitar. The large size didn't look so big, and I pasted it on my page. Boy, did I mess up! The whole page was so filled with these falling guitars that it was either impossible or extremely annoying to read the text on the page. I went right back and found a smaller guitar, and that took care of the problem.

The second thing you should be aware of is color. If your page has a black background, then falling musical notes will probably get totally lost unless they're in multicolor. The same goes for pink hearts on a pink page, or falling snow on a page with lots of big white spaces. So choose your graphics carefully.

The third thing to be aware of is links. Falling graphics can obscure the links on your page and make it difficult for people to click on them. Don't panic, though; there are ways to get around this problem. The main one - the only one, actually, as far as I know - is to make sure that the site you're downloading the pictures from has an option for the objects to fall behind the links and not in front of them. This enables people to click on your links without any interference from falling particles.

So keep these tips in mind, go choose your graphics - and, as always, enjoy!