Xanga is a social networking website where people use to search for new friends and keep in touch with them. People use this website usually to upload and share photos, and also for creating and sharing their blog.

As many other social networking websites, it provides many features but not as many as the famous websites like Facebook, Netlog and many others.


The features Xanga provides to their users are: Photo Album (users can upload their photos and videos into an online album and share them with other users), Photo Blog (you, as an user have the possibility to create your own blog and a plus of this website is that you can add images at the blog too), Music and Video (you can upload music and videos on your profile and share your favorite ones with your Xanga friends), Messages for Friends (you as an user, can post messages in your friends' profiles and they can send you back messages by posting them on your profile).

Unfortunately they do not provide yet a Music and Video Database, so users can watch videos or listen to music just on their profiles and on other friends profiles.

Basically, the Xanga account can be created for free, but they offer you just basic features. But if you would like to be a kind of a premium member and you want more space hosting pictures, more Xanga skins, no ads on your profile and many other benefits, it will cost you just $25 for an year. This sum is paid yearly, depending for how many years you would like to be a Xanga member.

So far, if you are a Xanga user, and you have a basic account (you are not a premium member because you are not willing to pay) and you want your profile to look prettier, you have to know that Xanga website allows you to introduce HTML codes.

With the special codes used for Xanga you can add images, change background image, add layout to your profile, change the cursor of your mouse pointer or make changes to the text by colouring, bolding, underlining words or even change the font and the size. There are advanced codes that generate traffic counters helping you to know the number of people that have viewed your profile and how popular you are, or inserting special symbols like copyright symbols.

These HTML codes, when introduces, will generate several things like colours, cursors, games, images, music, special characters and many others.

To make your Xanga profile page unique, you will use some cool Xanga codes. Let me take some examples of such codes.

Snowflakes

Winter is coming and you want to be in trend with the weather, so you can add some snowflakes to your Xanga profile by inserting the following code:




a:hover {background:url(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k33/Blackfairy1/thfallingsnowanimatedbackground.gif); text-decoration: none;}

If you insert that code you will notice that is snowing on your profile.

Layouts

If you want to change your profile layout, you can simply copy the code link into your profile editor in Xanga, and your layout will be personalized.

For example, if you insert the specific code for this layout, your profile layout should be changed and should appear like this:




Icons

Some icons can be easily used by just introducing its specific codes, and the code will generate an small image which can be used also as a comment on others profile but also to personalize your profile.

For example, if you insert the following code,

<a href="http://www.layoutxanga.net"><img src="http://www.myspace-code.org/xanga/11369143171239226026.gif" border="0"></a><div style="position:absolute;right:0px;top:0px;"><center><a href="http://www.layoutxanga.net/"><img src="http://www.myspace-code.org/xanga/button.gif" alt="Xanga Icons" border="0" /></a></div><a href="http://www.layoutxanga.net">Xanga Icons</a><br><br><br>

You will receive the following icon:




These were just few examples, but there are hundreds of ways in which you can personalize your Xanga profile, with the help of cool Xanga codes.