Gmail owners, Google, wanted "to go beyond simple color customization" and have announced 30 new themes.There's many new themes to fit your style, a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time and even a weather theme that can rain on your mailbox. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) to geek up your mailbox.
Google have also done some work to Gmail's default look to make it "crisper and cleaner".
To customise your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings. Google say they will be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so you may not see the themes just yet.
Gmail users have been building up custom themes using third-party tools like Greasemonkey or custom user stylesheets for quite some time. Officially, Gmail previously offered the mobile, classic HTML or their normal views only. Google also uses themes in products like their personalised homepage iGoogle or Google Reader's shared items page. The new Gmail themes will certainly be a welcomed addition for many.
Here's an overview of some of the themes to give you an idea of just how far you can customise your Gmail look.
It will get enabled automatically - just wait a few hours/days
But.. but.. I've been with them since they were in beta!
*Looks at logo* Oh, right...
That MAY be the point; Target smaller, less used accounts first to see how much it strains the systems. Only a thought, I could be wrong.
Peace,
James
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we will change the browser URL from http://gmail.microsoft.com to the more professional looking http://by114w.bay114.gmail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx?rru=home.
yahoo mail is the worst, than comes gmail which is ok, just that, nothing special, its to simple and has this child look to me. those themes are awful. i always thought about closing my gmail account, but thought maybe google will make it better one day and add something useful, playing with those themes around for a while leaved a bad taste in my mouth, i was discusted by gmail, hotmail is the best - the new version that is, previous one with that classic and full mode sucked, and took ages to load, but the new one is just beatifull and quick. iam a mac user btw. thats why i got gmail in the first place
Stope using IE then. Gmail is lightnig fast with Firefox, especially 3.1 betas
Why would you close an account because of a new feature though... THAT is "gay". You could always just use the classic theme...
so you never used hotmail?, thats why you like yahoo mail and gmail coz you dont know what good email is. when you will experience hotmail you will think different about the other emails out there
the new feature was the point were i had enough of gmail, you all dont get it. I see more in this feature than you all do. I see the big picture haha
so you never used hotmail?, thats why you like yahoo mail and gmail coz you dont know what good email is. when you will experience hotmail you will think different about the other emails out there
the new feature was the point were i had enough of gmail, you all dont get it. I see more in this feature than you all do. I see the big picture haha
u sir r a fool
u dont know anythin about gmail
its got web based message filtering, the best junk filter out there...very little advertising(i dont notice it)..
i honestly dont even see a comparison..hotmail has like no new features..they just keep reskinning it lol
sounds like ur just ranting because something didnt go ur way with gmail..or gmail was too hard 4 u to use? (if thats even possible)
but really..gmail has 100x more features than hotmail..hotmail hasnt added anything in years
i have been with gmail since it came out you fool, saying hotmail only is reskinned shows how much you know about hotmail. Its got so many new things and will get even more things once wave 3 comes out.
Found LH unrealiable and unable to login a few times the last few weeks.
You must be really proud of yourself.
Themes are not static
Yesterday i installed the TeaHouse theme where a fox was taking the tea inside the building.
But now the fox is playing around the garden. :-D
http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=teahousebd0.jpg
Themes are not static
Yesterday i installed the TeaHouse theme where a fox was taking the tea inside the building.
But now the fox is playing around the garden. :-D
http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=teahousebd0.jpg
my theme now shows the fox going to sleep as its night in my area.... real cool
Hopefully this will soon be added to gmail accounts with custom domains
I agree.
No offence but they all look a little on the rubbish side to me - I can't stand people having pictures as a background that are too much as they take away from what you are actually looking at the page for :/
If Hotmail/WLM had a Gmail style notifier, I would think about switching.
If Hotmail stopped adding a signature about messages to ourgoing messages, I would switch instantly!
Slightly annoyed that I don't have that very nice mountains theme though
As for those who are complaining about ads in Hotmail.. they are making more changes by the end of this year.. such as removing the ads from the top, more themes, integration of web messenger and skydrive, slight alterations to the layout, etc, and FREE POP3 support (no more requiring a connector).... they announced this last week after some complaints with the new wave 3 version.... I look forward to that. :-)
Good job both of them. lol
https://mail.google.com/a/domainhere.com/?s...settings/themes
Actually several so far I've recognized from themes offered for iGoogle's Pages. Anyhow, it's much nicer than the old gmail and a welcome reprieve.
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