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Got something to remember? Can’t find your pen and paper? Well then set a reminder on your homepage with the all new Post It Notes widget! Or just use it for fun, however you want to use them!

Add as many post it notes to your homepage as you want! Not only are you able to post them up on your homepage, you can also customize them! Change up their font style, size and color along with the color and size of the note itself! Need to change it up, hover over the note and click the pencil icon to add more text or change up the customization! Done with the note? Trash it by clicking the [x] on it!

How do I get this? Click Customize Page and go into your Skin Builder. Click the Widgets tab and you will see the option there!
Now you’ll never forget anything when you hop on to your computer and open up the first page, your StartSkin Homepage!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Did you hop on the computer before heading outside? Wondering what the weather is going to be like? Look no further than your homepage with this new feature! Now find out the daily forecast for the whole week directly on your StartSkins homepage!

How do I get the weather widget? Go to Customize Page and in the Skin Builder click the Widgets tab. Check off the Weather Widget box and it will appear instantly on your homepage!

It will even detect your current location! Not only does it give you the weather, but it also provides you with a full map with the weather in each and every location!

Just another cool addition to your StartSkin! Enjoy!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Now you can check your email messages directly on your StartSkins homepage! Whether you use Gmail, Hotmail/MSN, Yahoo, AOL (or even setup your own Pop3 mailbox), you can check it all directly on your homepage!

In your top links, you will see a new link: mail.  Click that and it will open up all your mail options for you to use!

Enjoy the new feature, with many more on its way!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Looking to upload or select a background that just does not fit your screen resolution? Can you only see some parts of that large background or want to stretch out that small background to fit your screen? Whether it’s a big or small image, you can now crop and resize your backgrounds! Choose the skin you want to use and if you need to adjust it, click the Crop/Resize Background and you’re set!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Do you like more than one skin in the Skin Gallery? Well instead of having to go through the whole process of previewing, setting as your current homepage and going back into My Skins to save it you can now add as many skins as you want with a click of a button. Simply just click the green plus sign on the skin you want and add as many skins as you want!

There is a 3 skin limit per gallery session. Meaning you can add 3 from the skin gallery and have to wait a few seconds for the skins to save in your My Skins section then you can go back into the gallery and add some more!

Many more fun features are in the works already so prepare yourself!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Not registered to StartSkins.com? Well, that’s okay because our public users now have almost every feature that registered users have access to!

So the question is: “I am a public user so what new features am I getting?”

To answer that question you can now:
-Save as many skins as you want!
-Rotate all of your saved skins!

To give you a more detailed idea of the above features, you can now create as many skins and/or choose as many skins from the gallery and save them to the My Skins area located in the Customize Page link! So with all of your saved skins, now you have another feature to use called Rotate Skins! With this feature, you can check off as many skins as you have in your My Skins box and on every refresh of your homepage you will have a new skin shown from your saved skins! The only feature not available is the Privacy Settings. This setting will enable/disable others from viewing or editing the content on your own personal StartSkin.

Now that we’ve opened up to our public users, get ready for more features ahead!

So you already know that we love to make it easy for you to customize your homepage, but now it has become even easier!

To get straight to the point, instead of browsing the web for a new skin, you can now search directly through your Skin Builder! That’s right, you now have the ability to search images from Google, Photobucket, Flickr and Bing instantly on your StartSkin’s Skin Builder! Choose the search engine, type in your search and get instant results! Once your results appear, click on any image to get a live preview directly on your homepage. Want the image? Finish the rest of your customizing and click Save Changes!

Now can it get any easier?

Enjoy this feature and you know there are tons of new ones on the way!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

What is this new feature? Well, it is self explanatory! The Rotate Skins feature will rotate your skins that you have created and saved in your My Skins area each time you come to your homepage, having a different skin appear every time!

How do I rotate my skins?
Sign into your StartSkin’s account. Go into your My Skins area. You will see a Rotate Skins check box at the top right of the box. Check off this box. You will notice all of your skins now are checked off. The skins that are checked will be set to rotate. Uncheck any skins you do not want to rotate. Once you’re ready, exit the My Skins and it will confirm that your skins will rotate. Take note, you must have more than one skin checked in order to have your skins rotate.

Your skins are now set to rotate each time you refresh your page!

Don’t know how to save skins to the My Skins area? Click here to read a previous post on how to.

*Rotate Skins is currently for registered members only. Click here to register and get the ability to save as many skins as you want as well as use the new Rotate Skins feature! We will be releasing this feature to the public very soon!

Hope you enjoy this feature!
-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Well, maybe not in the air but love is certainly on your StartSkin with our new Valentine’s day feature! Similar to the falling snowflakes feature, we now allow you to have falling hearts directly on your skin! Simply go into your Skin Builder and click on the Widgets tab. You will see the Enable Hearts check box. Click this and let the love fall from your homepage!

Much more features are in the works so stick tight as we are looking to release some awesome new features for the month of February!

-Kris, StartSkins Staff

Yet another option to customize your search bar! Currently, we already provide you guys with the ability to:

-Hide Search Engine Logo
-Adjust the search engine logo size
-Change the search bar & button colors
-Adjust the search bar width

Once again, that’s not all! You can now adjust the search bar field background transparency! Thicken the search bar field background color or hike up the transparency and make it invisible! Simply go into the Skin Builder and click the ‘Search’ tab. You will see the background color transparency slider. Use that to darken or lighten your search bar transparency! Save changes and you’re all set!

Hope you enjoy this feature with plenty more customizing to come!
-Kris, StartSkins Staff