Spice up your myAOL page using one of our brand-new themes! Our design team has been busy creating fun new skins that will allow you to makeover your page with one click. Choose from out-of-this-world Milky Way, summery favorite Flip Flops and earth-friendly Potting Soil. Or take a more topical approach with stylish Celebrity, News and Tech themes. Don't miss this opportunity to make these themes part of your personal myAOL page.

To view the latest themes, click on the blue "Add Stuff" button on the right-hand side and then select Themes (see image below), or simply click the Themes link in the upper right corner.

New Themes Preview

Tech Theme

Add some flair today! :)

In addition to our recent site improvements, we've been busy setting up myAOL sites all around the globe.
Check out the list below and click to see what those sites look like!
myAOL US
myAOL Canada (English)
myAOL Canada (French Canadian)
myAOL UK
myAOL France
myAOL Germany
myAOL Italy
myAOL Spain
myAOL Netherlands
myAOL Poland
myAOL Austria
myAOL Mexico
myAOL Switzerland
myAOL Sweden
myAOL Norway
myAOL Denmark
myAOL Belguim (Flemish)
myAOL Belguim (French)

Let us know what you think about our international sites!

New visitors to myAOL this week will see a whole new welcome experience designed to make first-time setup quick and easy! First, you can select from a subset of our stylish themes, then choose any or all interests and last enter a ZIP code. Clicking "I'm Done" will apply the selected theme, add special-interest pages to the newly-created site, and apply the ZIP code to any location-based content modules.



Another site update is something existing and new users alike will enjoy -- we've made adding new stuff like content modules, feeds, themes and pages to your page easier! Simply click on the blue "Add Stuff" button now located on the right-hand side of the page above your modules and you'll see a window open below offering featured items which can be added with one click to your page, or you can click into the gallery to browse all modules.



You can also select Feeds, Themes and Pages on the left-hand navigation. Clicking on Feeds will allow you to quickly enter any blog or RSS feed URL into the field to add to your page in a new module.



Clicking on Themes allows you to browse all of our awesome page skins and click to apply them to your page. Select Pages and browse our ready-made pages full of cool content modules -- this is a quick and simple way to make your site more robust.

Check out these new experiences today and let us know what you think! We love feedback! :)

We just launched a new feature for myAOL: themes. You can now select and choose your own theme to personalize your page. It has been a highly requested feature!

You can add your own theme by clicking on the Themes link in the upper right corner of the page, shown here:



Then, simply choose the theme that you prefer:


Please contact us if you would like to see any particular new theme. We will be adding new themes throughout the year - enjoy!

At just under six months old and still in the beta phase, we are pleased to announce that myAOL was nominated for the Open Web Awards for favorite site in the category "Start Pages." So help us win the major prize by voting for us! Vote up until 11:59pm PST on Sunday, December 16th. At that point, the top 3 choices will be selected and we'll move into the final round of voting.



Vote for myAOL!


Thank you to Mashable and the rest of the Web community for nominating myAOL for favorite "Start Page." With our users support we might just make it to the final round and could win the major prize - vote for myAOL!

Do you love movies? If the answer is yes, then we've just added the perfect new module for your myAOL page. It's the Moviefone module, and it is packed full of great movie info and functionality. While browsing movies that are coming soon to theaters, you will get a live countdown and can click to watch the trailer. Or, you can browse movies that are currently in the theater to get showtime information. The "Find Listings Near You" link allows you to enter your ZIP Code to get a rundown of your local theater's listings.
We hope you enjoy this module as much as we do!

We recently added a new module, thanks to TheFind.com, that could be very helpful this holiday season as you try and keep track of what you are going to get everyone for the holidays.



TheFind.com miniShopper module (shown above) offers the ability to create and maintain a simple shopping list as well as search TheFind.com for all of your shopping list items.You can add the module to your page today by visiting HERE. Happy shopping!

Last week, AOL launched a number of mobile services which all are part of the larger mobile strategy. As part of the launch we were happy to announce that myAOL now has a mobile site that is auto-configured based on the content you have configured on your Web version of the page.

We were able to convert most of your favorite modules from your myAOL page to the a mobile version. However, there may be a few modules that we are still working on shrinking to fit best on the screen of your mobile device (think shrinky dinks but for the Web).

Check out the screen-shot to the right. You can visit the myAOL mobile version by going to the following URL on your mobile device: http://wap.aol.com/myaol

Now you can access your myAOL page on-the-go!

One popular question from our beta testers is "In the AOL Client, how can I make myAOL the default homepage?". Firstly, you can not replace the welcome screen - but you can have another page load when you sign on to AOL. Follow the steps below.

Step One: Load the "Welcome Screen" Settings
In the AOL Client, hold down Ctrl + K to load the "Keyword" form. It will look like this:


Then enter "welcome settings" and hit "Go".

Step Two: Set myAOL as your page
Now you will see the Welcome Screen settings option. It will look something like this:



Select the last option "Welcome Screen and this AOL Keyword or URL:".
Enter http://my.aol.com
Then hit Save.

You are done! It's that easy and that simple.

Now when you logon to the AOL service, you will load myAOL at the same time.

These steps work with AOL 9.0 and AOL 9.1.

Keeping with our open platform philosophy, we are pleased to announce that myAOL is now offering some of your favorite Goowy yourminis widgets to be added to your personalized home page. The flashy yourminis that have been added to the myAOL Gallery include the following widgets:

1. yourminis: Clock
2. yourminis: AOL Video
3. yourminis: Veoh Video
4. yourminis: Would You Rather
5. yourminis: Amazon Wish List
6. yourminis: twiiter
7. yourminis: To Do List
8. yourminis: iTunes
9. yourminis: Pop 3 Mail
10. yourminis: Best Week Ever
11. yourminis: Brightcove Video
12. yourminis: MP3 Player
13. yourminis: Event Countdown
    

Visit the myAOL Gallery to find a yourminis category in the left column. Clicking on the category will display all of the yourminis widgets currently offering on myAOL (see gallery image below).
With yourminis on myAOL you can create an entire page filled with widgets similar the page below. You can edit the yourminis widgets within myAOL by simply clicking the color icons in the top right corner of each widget and your changes will be automatically saved for you. Personalize your myAOL page with yourminis today!

Finally, special thank you to Alex Bard, Gary Benitt, Jeremy Suriel, Sashi Bommakanty and the rest of the San Diego-based yourminis team - it has been a lot of fun working with you to make yourminis on myAOL a reality.

We are pleased to have just added a local news widget to our content gallery on myAOL. The widget is powered by Topix and offers an aggregation of local news based on the ZIP Code you provide when you first visited myAOL. We are extremely pleased to be working with Topix. Check out the widget below:



If you don't recall what ZIP Code you enter or want to change it, simply add the widget to your page and then click on the "options" link in the top right corner of the widget.

CLICK HERE to find out more information about the Topix Local News widget and add it to your myAOL page NOW!