For the past few months I have seen an increasing amount of comments which have URL’s starting with cid. I just made a new dummy space and saw that Live Spaces does not give the option of choosing a space URL at the sign up stage like it used to before. Instead after signing up for a live ID you are given a space with a URL like: http://cid-8c5b859909977f69.spaces.live.com/.
You are also presented with a Getting Started/Welcome to your space module through which you choose the URL of your space. I think many people who are new to blogging or casual Internet users might miss this. I have also seen most of these spaces are set to private and comments cannot be returned which is an annoyance.
If you don’t know what a URL is, click here.
Click here to learn how to make your space public so others can comment back on your space.
To change the cid url into something more memorable such as http://d3vmax.spaces.live.com , read on…
First,
- Sign into your space with your windows live ID / email and click on the Your Space tab and enter your space.
- Click on the Choose web address icon found on the Welcome to your space module that is present on your space.
- Enter a space address/URL that you think is easy to remember so that it is easy to give it to your friends or family or just choose something cool and click on the Check availability button to see if it is available as someone might have already taken it. If it all good then click on the Save button and you have created a web address for your space which any one on the Internet can access. (If you have set it on public: Recommended)
Now go through the basic tutorials listed on this space and started learning about spaces and customisations.
Good luck!
-Dev
p.s. Note in case you don’t have the Welcome to your space module you can get it from Customize >> Add modules or you can get your web address from Options >> Space settings. Once you have selected your space web address/URL, you cannot change it. If you want to change it you will have to delete your space and create a new one (again from space settings) but do not that you will lose all your blogs/photos and just about every data you put on your space including comments.
