Myspace gives you the abilities to customize your profile with HTML/CSS dropped into a field on the profile, can we make a designated profile section and enable the same sort of customization.

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I also think this would be a great idea. I came on here to see if anyone else had taken the initiative on this. I think it would be cool if the profile was actually a seperate html file that could be downloaded edited and then uploaded. CB features, user fields and plugins could be placed with simple tags and other features could be created by using html. This would give users unlimmited control over there profiles. I suppose this would probably have security issues though. A default html would be used for those users that don't care about what their profile looks like or just don't have time to mess with it. Has any one else thought of this? Is anyone doing this currently? What are some problems that I might run into such as specific security problems if I was to try and do this myself? Any other comments?

There would certainly be huge security risks with HTML no doubt. But mostly the myspace adjustments are CSS, not HTML.

UHP (user home pages) tries to accomplish this but it's got a long way to go.

Check out tagworld.com while you are at it. Much cooler than myspace for a user's custom design.

I hope some day this kind of implementation will be available in CB...

This can sort of be done now with the blog. The blog in CB allows you to enter HTML. I haven't done any hard core testing of which tags are allowable, but tables and links are a definate, and the tags can use the style attribute to apply formating. It does look like a bit of a security risk though, and I would definately recommend restricting user blogs in the robots.txt file.

I'd love to see a wysiwyg in place of the textarea, and when I get some time, I'm going to see if I can't replace it myself.

Where do I find the blog plugin? I'd like to give it a try.

It looks like its the mamboblog plugin from mambo.theyard.org. It also looks like Joomblog might work (they mention the ability to use CB avatars) according to their site developer.joomla.org/sf/sfmain/do/viewProject/projects.joomblog , but the CB documentation only mentions that they are "in contact with" the guys at Joomblog "to investigate potential integration". I also don't see any definate "This works with CB" in the Joomblog documentation.