New: Create your own page colors.

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October 20, 2008 on 10:56 am |

By popular request, you can now customize the colors for the header, background, and text on your My Yahoo! page. You can find this new feature under the Change Appearance menu on the upper left hand side of the page. Once there, you will see a link to Customize Colors. You’ll see two visual sections like the ones represented below.

By clicking on different areas of the first section you can highlight four different areas of your page to customize. The four areas include the header, sub-header, page background, and content area. Depending which area you select, you can see associated customize options available for that particular section on the right hand side.

A good tip to keep in mind is to choose background and text colors that have good contrast in relation to each other, so that the content remains legible. The best way to see how it works is to give it a try. It’s pretty intuitive once you start using it. At any time, you can change the color back to the original color you started with by clicking the Reset link that is shown next to the I’m Done button.

You can create 9 custom themes of your own. As you create new custom page colors, you can find your colors added to the list of Custom Themes available when you return to the Change Appearance Menu.

This feature is in beta and we’d love to hear your feedback. Go ahead, make your My Yahoo! page as unique as you are.

John
Product Manager

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  1. Thanks for the update. This is a nice feature and allows me to improve the look of the My Yahoo homepage is use.

    Comment by Weaselboy — October 20, 2008 #

  2. John, not showing up on my ATT/Yahoo co-branded page as yet. They have done some funky things to the Yahoo logo, btw- it shows as white on a white bg, btw.

    Comment by eknirb — October 20, 2008 #

  3. Customizing colors for MyYahoo is good. But allowing advanced users to share their work by publishing the themes, and other non-advanced users to pick up those creative themes, are more important. After all, not all the users are able to come up with a beautiful theme even if they want it.

    Comment by Ziru — October 20, 2008 #

  4. Yup I spotted this new feature yesterday. Let me tell you that this is really awesome I’m really happy to see good stuff on My Yahoo!

    Now I can show off a Purple theme and customize the module background with an easy light background.

    One thing: the bottom links will remain blue after the customization it seems there is no way to change them (Page Tour | Tutorial etc…)

    You guys should talk about what are your plan for YOS in the future

    Comment by GuillaumeB — October 20, 2008 #

  5. While on my email at Yahoo, I attempted to enlarge the font on my mail. I did this by hitting control/shift and pushing the +/= key. It did enlarge it…but, way too much! How do I get it back to normal size? I have tried everything and nothing seems to work. Is there a location on my mail options that will let me change the size of the text? Thanks for your help! Cecilia

    Comment by Cecilia Peterson — October 20, 2008 #

  6. [...] on. However, for those of you that are more hands-on, My Yahoo! now grants you the power to design custom colorizations on top of their themes. The interface is actually pretty cool, in the sense that it updates the entire page in-line to [...]

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  7. i cant get the custmizes theme why

    Comment by bob — October 21, 2008 #

  8. OMG……. thanks for the help i would have gone insain with out it…

    Comment by My$tique — October 21, 2008 #

  9. Awesome new feature! The more bling bling the better. The more visual appeal the page has the longer I will stay on it. Give us more pretty themes and backgrounds. Right now I’m using Halloween which is cool.

    Also, how do I completely delete and remove a custom theme I don’t really like? I right clicked on it but didn’t see the option.

    Comment by Robin — October 21, 2008 #

  10. thanks for this feature.. will be trying it out shortly..

    Comment by Jabi — October 22, 2008 #

  11. just tried it out.. and it’s lots of fun!! I like the way you can preview the changes immediately!

    Comment by Jabi — October 22, 2008 #

  12. I really like this feature; particularly the ability to customize the “visited links”!

    Comment by Richard Koeppel — October 22, 2008 #

  13. The top border of the Yahoo searchbox turns out an orange color,no matter what color background you’re using,how do i get rid of it, it’s really ugly

    Comment by Charlie — October 22, 2008 #

  14. Neat! I was wondering if this feature would ever get added.

    Comment by Shaytu — October 22, 2008 #

  15. I currently get Yahoo thru my provider Verizon, but have not seen the option as of yet. Any idea when it will be available?

    I am looking forward to being able to create my own customizations.

    Thanks

    Comment by Rod — October 22, 2008 #

  16. this is so cool there are so many outragous colors!!

    Comment by Kendyl!! — October 22, 2008 #

  17. Like it. But how do you delete custom themes you don’t like? Important.

    Comment by Dan — October 23, 2008 #

  18. [...] yourself a designer and wish that blueberry could be more aqua, that maraschino more salmon. Enter customizable colors! Just log in to My Yahoo!, click “Change Appearance,” and head to “Customize [...]

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  19. my color is pink with pumpkins!

    Comment by Brieanna — October 27, 2008 #

  20. If you don’t like a color,just click on another one and it will delete the color you don’t like. I am having a problem getting the “change appearance” to come up when I click on it. Nothing happens. Also I’m trying to “add tasks” but nothing happens when I click on that either. I was just wondering what is going on? Does anyone know? It was working,then it stopped. Thanks

    Comment by Patti — October 27, 2008 #

  21. [...] You can now unleash the true potential of your inner designer and start customizing your page. Check out more information here on how to make your My Yahoo! page more [...]

    Pingback by Yahoo! Publisher Network » Blog Archive » Branching Out, Custom Colors and Staying Social — October 28, 2008 #

  22. I have been using the Yahoo interface for years. Now all of a sudden I have lost the application background colors. Only white and in some modules (mail) it becomes useless since the fonts are also white. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. BTW Opera and Chrome work just fine…problems are only with Mozilla browsers.
    Thanks…Frank

    Comment by Frank — October 29, 2008 #

  23. Submitted a comment on October. 28th just saying that I have yet to see this customize colors on my home page(appearance). I have Yahoo through AT&T. Suddenly my comment was removed-Hmmmmmmmmm.

    Comment by Steve — October 30, 2008 #

  24. i love this option i would also love to be able to have my avitar seen at all times is there any way to do this thanks

    Comment by kim — November 1, 2008 #

  25. Why doesn’t this feature show up in my options? I have four options: Theme, layout, font size and searchbox size. I am not given the option for customizing colors.

    Comment by Joni — November 8, 2008 #

  26. This is absolutely great - very impressive and fun to use!

    Comment by Lauren — November 22, 2008 #

  27. i think this is is awesome!!

    Comment by adb — November 23, 2008 #

  28. How do I delete the custom appearances that I have saved and dont want

    Comment by Anthony Ackerman — November 29, 2008 #

  29. I am having a problem with my pages for instance yahoo mail and my yahoo i cant apply color, i can ramdonly click anywhere on the palette since i cant see color and nothing happens, it very basic all i see is blue wording, there are no boders, no animation. The same thing is happening on my facebook. I cleaned my browser cache and the same thing is happening. I am at my wits ends, can someone please help me fix this problem

    Comment by elisa — March 7, 2009 #

  30. thank u yahoo this is the great way for people to express them inner selfs.

    Comment by muffin — March 18, 2009 #

  31. Thank you for this yahoo update because this will help me improve or colorize my yahoo.

    Comment by milton — March 31, 2009 #

  32. I’m one of the many who has tried this new feature, but I’ve somehow made changes I cannot fix. Somewhere, somehow the color changes I’ve made now mar the yahoo.com search page, as well as the yahoo mail (by Verizon). Can anyone help me get back to some sort of normalcy? I have a ton of big red splotches on these pages.

    In your debt.

    Thanks

    Comment by Keith — April 19, 2009 #

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