Transform Your Site with a Custom Background

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Recently, I highlighted blogs and websites displaying custom colors and custom fonts, which you can enable on your own site with a Custom Design upgrade. Today, let’s look at a free way to easily transform your site: a custom background.

If chosen carefully, a custom background can reveal a lot about your site’s focus, as well as your overall aesthetic. I asked a few users about the backgrounds they’ve uploaded to their sites, and how they chose them:

Gherkins & Tomatoes, Biscuits & Gravy

Cynthia, the writer and photographer behind Gherkins & Tomatoes, Biscuits & Gravy, focuses on the cuisine and rich history of the American South. Her background caught my eye immediately — it enhances and unifies her image-oriented site.

Tell us about your custom background. Why did you choose it?

I downloaded this background from GRSites, which has all sorts of textures. I love the tiled…

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Stupid, Stupid xBox!!

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I was a founder of the original xBox project at Microsoft and gave it its name. Almost 14 years after the painful, pointless, and idiotic internal cage-match to get it started and funded, the hard selling of a compelling and lucrative living-room product to Bill (and then Steve as he began to take over), a product that consumers would want and love and demand, I am actually still thrilled to see how far it has come, how many installed units it has, how it is crushing its original console competitors, how the brand has grown and endured, and especially how great the games have become.

But the past 5 years, and the last year in particular, have been simply painful to watch. Coasting on past momentum. Failing to innovate and failing to capitalize on innovations like Kinect. Touting strategic and market success when you’re just experiencing your competitor’s stumbling…

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Full Specs of the HTC M7/ONE

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HTC has scheduled a press event for Feb 19 in New York and London. This is almost certainly going to be the reveal of the M7 or One as it’s now being said to be named. According to unconfirmed reports that came to light today the HTC M7 is going to be powered by a 1.7Ghz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM, LTE Capabilities. It will release running Android 4.1.2 with an updated version of the HTC Sense user interface, that is much less intrusive & very nice looking IMO. The phone will have 32GB of internal storage & an SD Card slot for up to 64gb of expandable storage. It will feature a 13mp rear facing camera & 2.1mp front facing camera, which is a step up from the average high end devices out at the moment. Giving all this great stuff the power it needs to…

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