Your space, your style: Personalizing your Windows Live space

You can use your title and tagline to identify yourself, express how you're feeling that day, or share your favorite saying or catchphrase.

To change your title and tagline, click Edit in the title and tagline module.

Enter your new title and tagline in the boxes provided, and then make whatever changes you want to the font style, size, color, and alignment.

Change the title and tagline for your space

You can add a variety of items to your space, including a blog, photo albums, or lists of things, like your favorite restaurants or shows. To add modules, click Customize, and then click Add modules.

The Customize menu displays a list of options for personalizing your space

On the Modules tab, you'll find a list of items you can show on your space. Click Show next to any of the items you want to show on your space. You can always hide modules later, so don't worry about trying something out.

The Modules tab displays a list of modules you can show or hide on your space

When you're done, click Close tab, and then click Save in the yellow customize bar.

You can also move modules around on your space. To do so, click Customize, and then click Rearrange or hide modules.

The yellow customize bar will appear. If you point to a module title, you'll see the Move pointer , which means you can move the module. To move the module, drag the module to where you want it on your space.

When you're done moving modules, click Save in the yellow customize bar.

You can choose from different themes and layouts to dramatically change the look of your space in just a few clicks.

• Themes are pre-set colors, fonts, and background images you can add to your space.

• A layout is the number and size of the columns on your space.

You can try out these options by clicking Customize. You'll see options for changing the theme or layout.

Use the Customize menu to change the theme or layout of your space

You can preview any changes you make before you apply them to your space. If you decide you don't want to make any changes, click Cancel in the yellow customize bar.

Changing the theme or layout is a good starting point for personalizing your space. You can also change the text colorand the font style of your space to make it look exactly the way you want.

Choosing a theme for your space automatically sets the colors and fonts on your space, but you can also choose to use customized colors or fonts.

Click Customize, and then click Advanced.

On the Advanced tab you can choose from different text colors, fonts, and background images

Here you can enter the colors and fonts for your space. If you know the RGB value for the color you want to use, you can enter it, or you can click the color picker icon to select the color you want. To find the RGB value for the color you want to use, go to the table of color names and their corresponding RGB values on the MSDN website.

Use the color picker to choose the exact color you want

Like themes and layouts, you can preview any changes before you click Save. And of course you can always go back to the way your space looked before—just click Cancel in the yellow customize bar.

Similar to customizing a computer's desktop image, you can make your space unique by using your own photo, picture, or graphic as the background image on your space.

Click Customize, click Advanced, and then click Background image.

You can set a background image for your space on the Advanced tab

Select Use a custom image for the page, and then click Browse to find an image on your computer to use as the background of your space.

If you have a small image that you want to use as the background, you can create a tiled effect by clicking Repeat on the menu. You can also change where your image appears on the page using the horizontal and vertical alignment settings, as well as change the transparency of your modules to show more or less of the background image.

Some things to note about background images:

• Large images are automatically resized to a resolution of 800 x 600 and converted to a smaller file size so the image won't affect the loading time of your space.

• Module transparencies greater than 0 (zero) might cause your space to load more slowly.