Googlified

Google today released a new API that you can create your own themes for iGoogle (though it has to be approved by Google before getting into the iGoogle themes directory, but you can still test the theme by “adding ?skin=<theme-url> at the end of the iGoogle URL”).

Creating a iGoogle theme is really easy, as Jesse Shieh from the Google Code Blog put it, “If you can create a webpage, then you can create a theme.” Google even packs all the basic files you need for creating a theme in a ZIP file to help starters. I bet someone’s already building a web-base dummy-proof iGoogle theme creator. Getting a nice header image and coming up with a good color scheme is the hard part.

[Check out this crappy theme I created in under 5 minutes]

Sooner or later, some iGoogle home pages will just be as beautiful as my friends’ profile pages on MySpace.