{"id":3747,"date":"2012-12-16T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2012-12-16T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:06:28","slug":"making-gmail-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2012\/12\/16\/making-gmail-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Gmail Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used Gmail for ages, but have historically been less than impressed with its appearance. I&#8217;m all for a simple interface, but simple and ugly don&#8217;t have to go together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve changed through their themes over time, never quite happy with the options. But more recently, I discovered that they allow &#8220;custom&#8221; themes. (Quotes around &#8220;custom&#8221; since your choices are just &#8220;Light&#8221; and &#8220;Dark&#8221; with a configurable background.)<\/p>\n<p>But that turns out to work pretty well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-16-at-2.37.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3748\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-12-16 at 2.37.27 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-16-at-2.37.27-PM-300x205.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>(I&#8217;ve heavily redacted the contents of my Inbox, just since I&#8217;d be pretty irritated if a friend of mine went blogging photos of my emails to them.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great selection of really nice backgrounds to choose from, including the ability to use your own photos. But thus far I&#8217;ve been so happy with the options that I haven&#8217;t tried to use my own photos. You really owe it to yourself to try out.<\/p>\n<p>(No word yet on whether the monkey in my background is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/12\/10\/ikea-monkey-is-named-darwin-only-seven-months-old-and-is-likely-headed-for-an-animal-sanctuary\/\">Darwin<\/a> or not.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used Gmail for ages, but have historically been less than impressed with its appearance. I&#8217;m all for a simple interface, but simple and ugly don&#8217;t have to go together. I&#8217;ve changed through their themes over time, never quite happy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2012\/12\/16\/making-gmail-beautiful\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}