Looking to spiff up your Myspace page with layouts, pictures, applications and so on? It's not as difficult as you think! You may have a boring myspace page and are jealous of your friends whose pages are filled with graphics, poems, sayings, and screen shots from their favorite movies, bands, and actors. And you're probably thinking that they spent a lot of time on it!

Whether you spend a lot of time updating your Myspace page is entirely up to you. However, you can get a nice layout that appears as if you've spent a lot of time, using Myspace page templates which can be found online. Many websites have these! All you have to do is visit your favorite search engine and search for myspace page layouts or myspace page templates and a vast array of choices will come up.

When you go to these sites, they give you options to choose from so you can personalize what you want. When you are finished setting it up the way you want, it will show you a preview of what your finished Myspace page will look like. If you still want to make tweaks, you can edit them at this time. Or you can choose to start all over!

Once you are satisfied with your new layout, the website will provide you with a code (usually about a paragraph long) that you paste into a certain section on your page (usually the About Me section), the same way that you would normally update your page with information. Once this code is in place and saved into your actual myspace account, you can now view your profile and the new layout should appear!

One suggestion is to backup whatever section the website has asked you to paste the code into, ahead of time (before pasting the code into that section) to make sure you don't lose anything that is currently on your page by mistake!

To backup, simply visit that section (About Me for example) in your account settings and place your cursor inside the edit box. Press CTRL A to select everything that's in there, and then press CTRL C to copy it. Now, open a new Notepad or Word document by pressing your Start button and going to Notepad or Word (any word processor is fine) and press CTRL V to paste what you've copied. Then press File, Save As and save the file as Myspace Backup [Today's Date].

Pay attention to where you save it (My Documents, for instance) so you can find it easily later. If the Myspace page layout template didn't work as planned, you can always go back into that section and re-paste the old information from your backup!

One word of caution: Many websites that offer things for free will plague your computer with spyware, viruses, spam and other malware. Surf carefully, and never install ANYTHING from a site that is not world famous (like Google.com, for example). Do NOT automatically trust sites! Once you find a site you trust, bookmark (favorite) it so that you can come back often.