

Will I Still Be Able to Access My Email for Sometime? Here are a few things to be aware of before quitting Yahoo entirely. Notice that the colors of the various elements of my inbox have changed too so that they’re more visible.What You Need to Know Before Quitting Yahoo Just click on Done if you’ve found your favorite and you’re good to go: When you see two colors like the lower left option of white and purple, that’s the background (the large swatch) and the highlight color (the smaller triangle).īetter yet, click on one of the images and it’ll temporarily show you how your inbox will appear: I really like the photos that the Yahoo Mail team have chosen.

You’ll get a nice set of canned options from which you can choose: You can mess with the various Settings, but for this task, click on Themes. To improve things, click on the gear icon on the top right. To start, here’s the stock “white on white” Yahoo Mail interface: Maybe some day, or perhaps there’s a third party extension to your Web browser offering that capability, but within the Yahoo world it’s likely just sitting somewhere on a to-do list. Still, there are some things you can tweak and improve with Yahoo Mail to change the user experience, though I’m sorry to report that as of this writing you cannot upload your own custom background image.

Yahoo Mail recently released a substantial redesign that gave the popular Web-based email service a lot more customization options, which was much needed as prior it felt like, well, 2005 all over again! The new interface is more elegant and powerful, but even with this redesign, there are only limited customization options, certainly fewer than on Gmail or other Web-based email services.
