CoolChaser Blog

We know our tools are broken and want to apologize for not being able to fix them. We are sorry to say that we won’t be maintaining CoolChaser anymore as we decided to concentrate on other projects that we feel more passionate about.

We started CoolChaser in February 2007 and it has been such an awesome ride. We started the site because so many people were having trouble putting layouts on their MySpace page. While others sites were providing codes for premade layouts,  on our site, people were able to create their own personalized layouts and update them with a push of a button without copying and pasting codes (remember those days?) People loved our site and we are still proud of what we were able to offer!

Well, fast forward to July 2011, MySpace finally called it quits to those layouts by killing css customization.  We thought we should just shut down our site then, but since there were so many beautiful layouts created by our users on our site, we decided to convert all the layouts to work on Facebook. We tried our best to catch up with all the changes Facebook constantly rolled out, but we can no longer keep up with it and do not want to over promise our users anymore.

We are thankful to all who were so supportive of us! We hope our paths will cross again someday.

May 2013 be a wonderful year for all!

We accidently deleted new Facebook layouts that were created since we migrated to Facebook layouts! We are so sorry about this! Please create a new layout on http://www.coolchaser.com/layout/create.

To those who are interested, the reason why it was deleted was because we tied all the layouts to our old accounts. Layouts that were not tied to any account were deleted every night automatically. We forgot to remove this and when we switched over to the new Facebook Connect, the system thought the layouts were not associated to any account and deleted them 😦

We might have many more bugs so please be patient with us and let us know if you find anything!

Coolchaser is going to be down from 1am to 4am PST today as we migrate to Facebook Layouts. Thank you for your patience.

Due to the new MySpace change, MySpace layouts will no longer be supported on CoolChaser very soon. You can read more details on how MySpace killed css customization.

What this means to existing CoolChaser users is, very soon you will not be able to create any new MySpace layouts or themes. However, we will keep your account for a while so you can view your existing layouts and themes and can use it if you still have Profile 1.0. However, since we think only a very very small portion of users still have Profile 1.0, we will most probably not going to keep the accounts for very long. Please comment on this post if you have any concerns regarding this.

So what is going to happen to all the beautiful layouts and themes our wonderful users created? No worries, they will not be wasted, as we are going to convert all of them to Facebook layouts so you can use them on Facebook. So stay tuned!

As many of you know already, MySpace had a huge makeover and got a totally new look. They changed their logo to My|_____| (really not sure about that logo) and also released an updated Profile 3.0 which during the beta phase, people had a chance to take a look and go back to Profile 1.0 or 2.0 if they didn’t like it. Unfortunately, Profile 3.0 does not allow any custom CSS so our layouts do not work. MySpace contacted us about their customization tool that might be able to be integrated to 3rd party sites like ours but we’ve not heard any updates on that from them.

We still supported Profile 1.0 and 2.0, but MySpace recently actively converted all the inactive Profile 1.0 and Profile 2.0 into 3.0 automatically. We are not entirely sure but we think people with Profile 1.0 who logged in and had some activity were not converted though so if you still have Profile 1.0 (like our official MySpace site) you can still use our layout by pasting the code manually inside the “About me” section. All the fields in MySpace will now say “No CSS allowed” but you can still paste it in there and will work if MySpace still kept your Profile 1.0 layout.

They also changed the way how we inserted the layouts automatically into Profile 1.0 and got rid of the Profile 2.0 editor entirely from their site; therefore, our auto insert toolbar no longer works for any profiles right now. We are researching if we can get the toolbar to work at least for Profile 1.0.

To people who still have the precious Profile 1.0, we think it’s only a matter of time MySpace converts all the profiles to Profile 3.0, so might as well enjoy your own custom made layouts while it lasts! 🙂

UPDATE 9.03.10: 2 hours after we wrote this blog, Photobucket responded that they have fixed the problem! We are impressed with their great customer service 🙂 We will be enabling the media plugin soon again after tonight’s deploy.

(original post below)

There has been a problem with the Photobucket media plugin on our Theme Creator since couple of days ago. Whenever people try to embed a background using Photobucket, it busts out of our site and directly goes to Photobucket showing only the widget. We have contacted Photobucket but have not received a response yet. We will temporarily disable their media plugin until they resolve the problem, so in the meantime please manually embed the image link from photobucket for now. Hope we hear from them soon!

Hope you are enjoying our BumpMe MySpace app that easily lets you send or embed any graphics on your page with one click of button!

I’ve been getting some questions from people asking how to remove duplicated stickers they accidently posted on their page. Unfortunately, MySpace doesn’t allow us to access the user’s profile to retrieve information so we can’t remove the graphics for you automatically. So removing would be required to be done manually.

Here’s how. Take a look at the section that you posted the sticker. For example, I posted 2 cat graphics on my “About me” by accident.

So, I need to click “Edit Profile” from the top navigation menu “Profile” and go to the “About me” box.

Here’s the code for the first sticker.

As you can see, all the BumpMe code starts with this code:

<br /><br /><p><p style=”text-align:center”><a href=”http://www.msplinks.com/
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and ends with

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target=”_top”>Share this sticker!</a></p></p>

so compare this chunk of code with the one right after, if it’s identical, you should remove one of them and that should solve the duplicated graphics problem.

Hope this helps!

We are sorry to announce that we have decided to discontinue our MySpace CoolChaser Widget. Many of our loyal fans have been asking us when they can get the widget back and that they miss it so we tried VERY HARD to get our app unsuspended. But the conditions MySpace gave us were too strict.

They told us that nothing from the app can link to our CoolChaser.com site – which means, even if you would like your friend to preview the layouts and themes you’ve created, there is no way they can preview it or use the layout – cause it doesn’t link anywhere!!

Why are they treating CoolChaser like a swine flu? LOL Like we mentioned before, they claim that they found lots of inappropriate materials on our site. I tell you, MySpace content review team knows more curse/sick words than anybody on this planet! Since the CoolChaser developers are all dorks, we were like “I can’t find that thing they mentioned!! How did they find it!” LOL

We don’t want any of our users to promote hate, violence, and porn (just enjoy porn elsewhere!) on our site which I know 99% of our users don’t. But like somebody said, “it only takes one @$$hole to ruin your day”. Especially if you deliberately look for one!

Thanks for your understanding and we would really like to thank all of our loyal fans for supporting us! We are working hard to improve our site (hey do you like the auto insert thing? Isn’t it cool?) Like always, please feel free to leave us comments/suggetion/feedbacks 🙂

Hey guys, remember we had that very convenient feature that lets you update your MySpace layouts automatically in seconds? And when we had to take it down, lots of people got mad? LOL (251 comments!!) Well, guess what, we got that feature back!! Woo Hoo!

This feature is offered through our shiny new toolbar so all you need to do is to install it (Installing is super easy btw!) and that’s it! You can change your layouts literally in seconds – we even detect what profile your are on (1.0 or 2.0) so even if you aren’t paying attention (like how I am all the time!) you still get an amazing layout at the end 😀 Of course, we replace your old CoolChaser layout automatically too so no need to delete it beforehand 🙂

Also, let us assure you that our toolbar is 100% safe with no spyware or obtrusive ads and is 100% free! You can uninstall it anytime also so give it a try, you’ll like it 🙂

As always, we would love to hear your feedback/suggestions/bugs too so feel free to leave comments!

As some of you may have noticed, our CoolChaser widget installed on some of your MySpace profiles has the “CoolChaser is currently down for maintenance.” message. MySpace suspended our app because they found inappropriate materials on our site that was created by some of our users. We are working to resolve this problem with MySpace’s help and hopefully get the app back soon but we aren’t sure exactly when.

We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience!