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Thanks to all of our StartSkins users for submitting such great StartSkins! Check out the User Submitted Skins today!

Hey everybody! We just created a Facebook Fan Page! If you’re enjoying your StartSkin please support us by Liking our fan page below!

With this new widget you get not only 1, but 3 different ‘of the day’ features! This widget includes a daily:

-Joke of the Day
-Quote of the Day
-Fact of the Day

Simply go to your Skin Builder > Widgets tab and click the ‘Fact’ icon! Once you have it on your skin, press the [+] to expand that specific ‘of the day’ section and receive your fact, joke or quote! You can do it more than once, so the more you click the more you get!

Enjoy this new widget everybody!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Are you having fun browsing skins from the main gallery http://StartSkins.com? Think one of your friends or family members would enjoy a StartSkin you stumble across? Then share it! Now on each live preview, at the bottom left corner you will have the ability to ‘Like’ it on Facebook, Google Plus and Tweet it on Twitter! Spread the word!

So are you listening to some music with your MP3 widget, watching a move and want to check out another skin from your gallery? Only way to change your skin from your My Skins gallery is to refresh your page, which will stop your music or whatever else you’re doing on your StartSkin. Well, refresh nomore! Don’t lose your spot in what you’re doing because you can now click the rotating arrows icon in the bottom right of your StartSkin! One click will change your skin without refreshing your page!


-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Using the music player widget? Of course you are! If not, go into your widgets tab and click on the music icon and get your free music player widget. Add as many songs as you want directly off YouTube! So what’s the new update? It’s a simple feature added! If you’re a fan of the music widget you can now set your playlist on autoplay, and even shuffle! Pick a song, just chill on your StartSkin and listen to your whole playlist on autoplay!

As you can see, there is a small options icon inside your playlist.

Click the icon and you will see two options, shuffle and autoplay. Click what you want and you have your new setting for your widget!

Hope you enjoy the new feature, plenty more to come!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

With over 50,000 skins available, add more skins to your gallery! You can add as many premade skins to your favorites. Don’t forget to try out the Rotate Skins feature found in the My Skins box. Check off as many skins as you want and on each refresh your skin will change up! Really fun feature to have if you have a large gallery of skins!



-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Well the holidays came quickly and it’s time to decorate your StartSkin with some seasonal & holiday effects! Go into your Skin Builder and click on the Widgets tab. In there, along with all of the social network widgets you will find the Snow Icon and Christmas Lights Icon! Click the Christmas Lights and let there be light amongst your StartSkin! Colorful blinking lights will be added to the side of your homepage! Fun thing about it is they glow, flash and when you put your mouse over them, they break (Don’t worry though, they will be replaced on refresh!). As for the seasonal effects, it may still be Fall but Winter is soon approaching! Click on the snow icon and let the snow fall from the top of your homepage! Enjoy these fun effects!

Happy holidays from the StartSkins Staff!

We want to make customizing your homepage the easiest as possible as well as managing your account and privacy settings! We have combined all of the settings into one, privacy and search settings making it easier to modify your settings all at once. You can now find the newly rebuilt settings at the bottom right of your skin!

-Kris, StartSkins Support

Stay updated with top news, sports, entertainment or anything at all with the new RSS Feed Widget! Simply find a RSS feed url, plug it into the widget and receive the feed directly on your StartSkin! How do I get this? Go into the Skin Builder, click the Widgets tab and click on the RSS Feed icon. It will add the widget to your skin. It will have default feeds for StartSkins updates along with Google’s Top News, Sports and Health feeds! How do I add a new feed? Click on the Add Feed link at the bottom of the widget! Yes, it’s that easy! You can even customize the theme of the widget by clicking the colorful circle at the top right, as well as minimize/maximize the widget!

Hope you enjoy this new widget & yes, of course we are working on our next feature already!

-Kris, StartSkins Support

More updates: The Twitter widget has been updated! You can now click your followers usernames and receive their personal tweets directly on the widget. We also updated the Widgets tab area. If you don’t have one of the widgets, the widget icon will be grey. To enable the widget, click the icon and it will appear in color. Do the same to disable that widget!