Green Theme Gmail

Google Blue is good, but who said there is nothing better than that ?

How many days and hours have you spent inside your gmail inbox ? Isn’t time to give a new and better look for it ? Yes,  It it is. I felt really good when I changed the gmail theme for first time many months ago.

You also will feel better. Try it.

It’s really easy to change gmail theme. Click on “settings” on top right corner of your inbox, and then select “themes”. You get some really good themes here. Try them out !! The latest theme, “turf” is what I am using.

If you like all of them

Well, if you liked all themes available in the gmail themes gallery, or confused thinking which one to choose,  select “Random” ( check the end of the themes list ). Gmail will apply a random theme from the gallery.

If you do not like any of them

Oh yea, there is an option for those who do not like any of those themes available in the official gallery. Select the last option, “Choose your own colors” and them you can set your own colors. ( need help with color schemes and color codes ? go here )

So, change your themes …. enjoy, and share your experience with me … and now I will tell you a secret .. I know that 99% of you have already changed their themes, but this is for the remaining 1%

So, here is another customization of copyblogger theme , but who did it ? hmmm well, I did it …. or, rather, it just happened when I was playing with css and colors. Just have a look and tell me if you liked it. ( Click on the image to zoom in !! )

copyblogger black

If any of you guys wants to use it, let me know, I can send you the theme, eventhough it is not ready for a public release. So, if someone wants to use it, I can make few more changes needed, and then send the zip file.

Who said you can’t make good wordpress themes or web designs with simple colors ( and without images ? ) If someone told you so, let them visit this blog.

Colors used : Light Sky Blue, and Black. Yes, thats it !!! Images ? Only their logo and a simple one for twitter.. and there you go … a new design !! Good job Amy Mahon !!!

Another beautiful thing about this design is the font used for post titles. It looks really good. Anyone know the css code for it ? just curious … ( yea yea, just curious I say, you tell me the code, and the next day you will see the font here lol )

Another Post on CSS and Design ?

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“The Blog Herald” recently redesigned their blog. They made a really cute, and sweet theme . Till then, it was just another magazine styled blog. But now, it looks very unique, and easy to browse.

Now, this is what I call a perfect layout, for a wordpress theme. Everything is rightly placed. No distractions, even ads are placed very well. No clutters.

What happened when I found a good blog with a sweet design ?

So, what happened to me when they did this “redesign” thing ? Well, I started reading that blog more, I was being attracted by that design,  spent more time on the blog, and their great content made me spent even more time there, and browse through archives etc ..

I used to read their blog posts, but only from google reader itself and never bothered to comment. But, this new design is taking me to the site from rss reader. Its making me comment. Yes, the design is driving my reading pattern, my activity on the blog, my attitude towards that blog.

The strange thing is, I usually do not like blogs without a header image but this one, I liked it without a header image, and that too too less colors.

and then …

I came back to my blog, and changed my theme hmm nothing new in it right ?  ( You know right, I always look for a reason to change theme ). I am not sure if you guys liked the new design, and would like to know your thoughts on this.

What’s special with Copyblogger theme ?

It has two css files –  style.css and custom.css. Style.css has the most basic layout elements, which you need not edit, unless necessary. Custom.css is where you edit the design ( color,font,font size, background etc etc ).

So you get to edit your theme as you like without destroying the basic structure of the theme, which is really great for someone like me with very less coding knowledge. Yet, there is something I need help with. If you look at the side bar, there is something missing before the search box. A feed icon is supposed to be diplayed there but it isn’t. Any idea why ?

I am happy with this theme .. are you ?

Yes, that’s right. There may be a theme change soon.

I am waiting for the pbulic release of a new theme. It’s again a designer’s favorite theme, which he was using on his own blog. I think, I will be trying that on my blog, since it looks pretty much attractive.

Why ?

I have got a few feedbacks about this theme. This one looks dull, or colors are not good, header is not right…

What you think ?

What do you think about the current theme ? What are the good features of this theme ? What are the drawbacks ? Do you think it’s good to change the theme ?

Questions Questions Questions !!!

Well, I am excited. My gmail inbox is going to look for colorful now.

Recently, I’ve been playing with colors on the blog, editing the css of my blog theme. Now, its time for me to add colors to gmail inbox !!. Yes, next generation of gmail labels is here ……..

Adding color to your gmail labels, how can that help ? Look at the image here,

Do you see the red colored “to do” label ? I think that gives a great idea on how to make it useful for your daily use !

You all should try this out and let me know how it helps !! Dont forget please ……

Oops, I forgot to tell you how to do this right ? Here it is

1. Click Edit labels at the bottom of your Labels list.
2. Click rename next to the label you want to edit.
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