To reflect its broader capabilities, we’ve renamed the feature Customize Theme. You can find it by clicking the Change Appearance button at the top of your My Yahoo! page.

Just click on the background area for either the top of the page (what we call the Page Header) or the background of the main part of the page (what we call the Page Background). In either case, you’ll see that you now have a choice of an image or a color for the background. We’ve set things up so you can either upload an image from your hard drive or pull in an image from your Flickr account, if you have one.

A couple of tips for the page header area:
• An image that isn’t too busy works best.
• The ideal image is about 150 pixels high, so you’ll be able to see most of it (a larger image will be cropped).

Please check out our detailed Tutorial and Online Help on Customizing Colors and Backgrounds to guide you through using this new feature. Please let us know what you think.

–james
My Yahoo! Product Lead

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

For the sake of my own sanity, I’ve been craving a way to keep all these sites in one place, but organized into different categories. This way, I could find what I need, when I wanted, without heavy searching or bookmarking.

I took a bold step towards that goal when I started using multiple pages on My Yahoo!. Now, I can keep all of my everyday content on the “My Front Page,” and I can categorize my favorite blogs in the extra pages (yes, like the newspaper!).

To add another page to your My Yahoo!, click on the “Add Page” button in the navigation bar just below the Search box.

You can personalize your new page too…

* Add modules and change the color and layout of your page
* Move modules between pages by dragging and dropping them onto the page name
* Rename your new page at any time by clicking on the page name

Adding another page – or even several pages – is such a quick and simple way to keep all your content organized. And if you’re a media obsessive like me, that can mean the difference between a data death spiral and information Nirvana. Try it out!

–Eric
My Yahoo! Sr. Product Manager

Add an RSS feed from the site to your page:
• Follow the instructions on the site to locate the feed URL (look for the RSS icon) and copy it.
• In My Yahoo!, go to Personalize this page > Content: Add RSS Feed > Paste the URL and click Add.

The content will be added to the top left of your page.

– Like to cook? Check out the Lifestyles category and dig into the Food & Drink feeds.
– Follow tech trends? Pick your specialty from Technology.

My goal is to supply you with feeds that bring you frequent, relevant, compelling content on the topics that interest you most.

Our content directory has undergone many evolutions during the years I’ve been part of the My Yahoo! team. We’re trying to keep it easy to use, yet comprehensive—a tough balance to strike. Tell me what you think. And if you don’t find what you need, remember, the directory is a fraction of all the content available for your page. Use the content search box to explore the millions of available feeds.

I’ll be back to talk about more of the things a My Yahoo! editor spends her time doing. But for now, it’s back to the wild, wild Web.

Giddyup,

Rebecca
My Yahoo! Editor

No more navigating off your page to add content, change your layout, modify your settings or see what your page would look like in a new color. Now, all that is possible right from your page.

But we didn’t think that was quite enough. So we added a reader option that lets you view articles without leaving your page. Then we created module-specific controls (like how many items you want displayed in a module). Oh, and we improved the article previews (the little snippets that show up when you mouse over a headline) too.

We hope you like what we’ve done with the place.

The My Yahoo! Team