10 iGoogle themes that actually look good

by Jay Hathaway (RSS feed) Mar 12th 2009 at 12:00PM

Hell is other people's iGoogle themes. I love the custom Google homepage as much as the next person, but the selection of user-submitted themes is, frankly, atrocious. The list ranges from photos of Angelina Jolie to photos of some guy's dog, with very few options that actually hold up over weeks and months of being in your face whenever you open a new browser window. Instead of subjecting you to the worst of the worst -- maybe we'll save them for a Fugly Friday -- I've collected my top 10 well-done iGoogle themes.

Gallery: iGoogle themes that actually look good

Tags: google, homepage, igoogle, skins, themes

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rocketboy said 1:20PM on 3-12-2009

You're missing quite a few in that list...Solar System, PHP Coder, Flox, Earth-light, Grass, and Radiohead are ones that I'm currently using. But really, ya, most of them are god awful.

Jay Hathaway said 1:20PM on 3-12-2009

I'm not a fan of Flox, for whatever reason. I know it's really popular, though.

Rocketboy said 2:14PM on 3-12-2009

Flox replaced Maeda's scheme for me... I think I recall that I didn't like the way it dealt with wide screens. Either that or it just started booring me.

Rodney said 4:55PM on 3-12-2009

Yes, the Radiohead theme is excellent.

Rick Mesler said 3:30PM on 3-12-2009

You should look at Radiohead's theme and its awesome

Rishi said 5:27PM on 3-12-2009

I like the Chinese Papercuts theme.

Rishi said 5:10PM on 3-12-2009

I like the chinese papercuts theme a lot.

Dave A. said 3:41AM on 3-13-2009

Since I've discovered Tea House, I haven't changed it from that. That has been my theme for over 2 years. It changes themes 12 times a day and it has a special header at 3:14am (pi time), but doesn't get in the way of the search bar and it's cute. I find it relaxing, but that's me.

I even have it as my Gmail theme.

robb said 1:07PM on 4-21-2009

The burnout paradise one looks better then most of them......

Jash Sayani said 6:46AM on 4-22-2009

I tried making a theme on iGoogle but it does not show up!! :(

Lovezune said 12:48AM on 5-12-2009

I think I recall that I didn't like the way it dealt with wide screens. It changes themes 12 times a day and it has a special header at 3:14am (pi time)
http://www.zuneconverter.org

Val said 9:45AM on 5-15-2009

http://www.google.fr/ig/directory?type=themes&url=www.globalway.fr/iGoogle/globalway.xml

jhtrico1850 said 11:26AM on 5-22-2009

Google has an official one called JR that is the shit.

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