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 You can use HTML anywhere on Multiply: comments, posts (click on 'Edit HTML' first if it's a blog post) and even in your Page Title. Here are the basic commands, be sure to check the links for more info.  If you don't like to use the codes but you want to use HTML somewhere, you can do this: create a blog entry and change the fonts, colors, etc, then click on 'Edit HTML' to reveal the code so you can copy it and paste wherever you want. The Very Basic BasicsDon’t worry, HTML is incredibly easy to learn. All you have to do is surround whatever text you want to change with tags. Like this:
| What You Type | What You Get | | <B>Men</B> | Men | | <I>Are</I> | Are | | <U>from</U> | from | | <S>Men are from Mars</S> | Men are from Mars | | You can even combine tags (just remember to next each pair of tags) | | <B><I><U>Mars Needs Women</U></I></B> | Mars Needs Women | | And That’s Not All | | <CENTER></CENTER> | Centers text or image. | | <A HREF="URL HERE"></a> | Makes whatever text/image it surrounds into a link. | | <IMG SRC="IMAGE URL HERE" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100" /> | Add an image, using optional WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes to control the sizing. Note: IMG code is stand-alone (no separate close tag necessary). | | <FONT FACE="verdana" SIZE="6" COLOR="green">Little Green Men</font> | Alter the size, style, and color of text. | Cross-browser friendly fonts: Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Webdings. Cross-browser friendly colors: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. (Want more colors? Use a HEX code) That should be enough to get you started! If you're at all interested in learning more (how to build TABLES, for instance), here are some other resources to help you push your HTML skills even further: Additional HTML Resources Even more tips and tutorials about HTML/CSS can be found in the group Multiply.Design. Click on the logo to join the group now!Source: Friendster.com help page.
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 Most people just want a theme with personalized colors and a background. It's very easy to get it using the Custom theme: 1. Click on the Customize My Site link found in your main page or go to settings -> My Site
2. Click on Choose a Theme in the top yellow bar (Image A) 3. Pick Custom Theme (Image B) 4. Choose your background picture using Browse (Image C-1) 5. Pick a color scheme or make your own using the options below (Image C-2) 6. You can Preview or Save it when it's done (Image C-3) PS1: In the step 4 you must choose a picture in your computer (HardDisk). It will be tiled, so small images won't look good. The recommended image size in general is something around 1024x768 pixels. PS2: A HTML color table can be found here or here. PS3: If you later change your Custom CSS, your background pic will be gone. But you can add it back again using the proper code in the body section of your Custom CSS: before you change your Custom CSS, look at your page source code and copy the background tag with the image link, then add it to the body section when you edit the CSS code. Update1: After the recent changes, now you can choose the base theme used for customizing the colors: Clean (the new default theme) or Andros (the previous default theme). Also, there are checkboxes to add transparency (no background) to some sections of your page. 
JavaScript (they have the script tag in the code) and iframe codes aren't allowed in Multiply for security reasons. Any other code that is simple HTML or Flash, like the ones that use the EMBED or OBJECT command, should work fine. Usually the site give you options for the code: look for the one in simple HTML (no script tags) or one that uses Flash. As a side note, sometimes when you try to copy and paste excerpts from other web pages to yours, usually blog entries, you may get the message that 'JavaScrit/CSS isn't allowed', and you can't save your post. It happens because some of the page code was also copied and also pasted with the text. To avoid this, first paste the excerpt in a plain-text editor, like Notepad on Win or Smultron on a Mac, and then copy it again and paste on your page. You will get only the text and should be able to save your entry.  PS: JavaScript isn't the same as Java. Java widgets should work too, as they usually use the EMBED and/or OBJECT tag.  Update1: EMBED codes that have allowscriptaccess won't work anymore (they will be disabled when added to Multiply pages) due to security reasons too. Quote from a Multiply staff member:  We disabled script access across the board for all embedded flash applications because it poses a significant security risk. Embedded flash players, with allowscriptaccess set to true could potentially execute arbitrary javascript on the page and send other users' personal information to a third party. 
 Feeling envy of the older users that have a Recipe or Market section but you don't? Feel no more... With the Tagged Content boxes you can do almost the same. How does it work? Simple: it will create a new box in your main page with all the entries you have with a selected tag or tags. For example, if you want to have a Recipes section, create blog entries with the tag 'recipes' and then create a Tagged Content box to group these entries. From the official Multiply blog: If you use the "Boxes" homepage layout (as opposed to "Linear"), you can now create new boxes on your homepage that display content based on the tags you've given them.That's right, in addition to the usual boxes like "Photos" and "Videos," you can now mix and match tags to your heart's content... and display your creations on your Multiply homepage. If you ever wished for a box displaying your latest posts related to, say, business, pirates and trees, this feature makes your wish come true.To set this up, just click the familiar "Customize Site" link on your homepage, and follow this with the aptly-titled "Add Tagged Content Box" link. You'll get a pop-up that you can use to set the options for your box -- particularly what should be displayed (pick one or more tags), and how it should be displayed (box title, number of entries to display). Once you've created your box, you can manipulate it like any other content type box: drag it around, hide it, edit it... And here's the best part: you can make multiple tag boxes!If you feel comfortable with HTML and CSS, you can even add the new boxes to the navigation menu. Just follow the instructions found in this entry from the Multiply.Design group (where you can find more info about customizing your page too): Great, isn't it? 
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