How to Customize Your Homepage

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Miss those days when you can customize your home pages to your heart’s content? This is what you’ve been looking for!

You can customize your IMVU homepage according to your preference. You can change the arrangement and availability of the homepage panels, header and body settings (text color and background), and you can even set your favorite page background. Here are some basics to get you started.

Note: If you are having difficulties making any of these changes, you may also try switching to a different browser.

Additionally, since Google Chrome Version 68 (release date: July 2018), the browser pushed a change that will cause problems for sites not using secure HTTP (HTTPS). Since more than half of all people in the world use Google Chrome, your homepage also has to use HTTPS to make sure it displays properly across all viewers. This has been enforced on all custom coding on IMVU.com homepages since June 6, 2018.

For your custom codes, simply change every HTTP to HTTPS. Most of these URLS will likely work --- if they do not, they will need to be changed. Unless they are updated, with HTTPS, your pages will not display correctly.

Customizing Your Homepage

STEP 1: Go to www.imvu.com, and then login to your account. If you are having problems logging in, click here.

STEP 2: Click on your avatar name to go to your homepage.

STEP 3: Click on an option below that you want to try on your homepage:

Changing Your Profile
Changing the Header Settings
Changing the Panel's Body Settings
Moving Homepage Panels
Changing the Page Background
Removing a Panel

Changing Your Profile

STEP 1: On the upper right corner of the About Me panel, click the Edit button.

STEP 2: Select Edit profile.

STEP 3: On the account overview section, select the information that you want to be displayed on your homepage such as your tagline, avatar image, and gender.

STEP 4: When you are done, click the Update Profile button to save your changes.

Changing the Header Settings

STEP 1: Click the Edit button on the panel that you want to customize.

STEP 2: If you want to change the header's text color, select Header text color.

STEP 3: Select your preferred text color from the color wheel, and then click Save.

STEP 4: If you want to change the header's background, select Header background.

STEP 5: To embed your preferred wallpaper to the background, enter the URL of the image that you want to use, and then select whether the image will be tiled or non-scrolling.

If you simply want to add color to the header's background, select your preferred header color from the color wheel.

STEP 6: Click Save.

Changing the Panel's Body Settings

STEP 1: Click the Edit button on the panel that you want to customize.

STEP 2: If you want to change the panel's body text color, select Body text color.

STEP 3: Select your preferred text color from the color wheel, and then click Save.

STEP 4: If you want to change the body's background, select Body background.

STEP 5: To embed your preferred wallpaper to the background, enter the URL of the image that you want to use, and then select whether the image will be tiled or non-scrolling.

If you simply want to add color to the body's background, select your preferred body background color from the color wheel.

STEP 6: Click Save.

Moving Homepage Panels

STEP 1: Hover your cursor on the header part of the panel.

STEP 2: When the cursor changes to a crossed arrow, drag the panel to your preferred section on your homepage.

Changing the Page Background

STEP 1: Click the Edit button on the upper right corner of your homepage, and then select Page background.

STEP 2: To embed your preferred wallpaper to the background, enter the URL of the image that you want to use, and then select whether the image will be tiled or non-scrolling.

If you simply want to add color to the page's background, select your preferred background color from the color wheel.

STEP 3: Click Save.

Removing a Panel

STEP 1: Click the Edit button on the panel that you want to hide from your homepage.

STEP 2: Select Hide this panel.

Troubleshooting Tip:

Do you find that the customization panels disappear even before you can successfully make changes, or the changes made do not show up on your screen? Maybe changing the colors and backgrounds only returns a blank screen for your homepage. This may be due to browser compatibility issues. You may try clearing your browser's cache (check out these instructions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge), or you may try using a different browser. You may also try going in Safe Mode before making any changes, by clicking on the Safe Mode button on the upper right hand corner of your homepage. You can always revert any changes by resetting your homepage panels in your Account Settings.

Want to apply the same formatting to all the panels? You may always tick the Apply this setting to all panels option to avoid having to repeat the formatting changes you made for individual panels.

Also, you may wish to do your own coding on your homepage by clicking on Edit custom HTML/CSS. As of the moment, we are unable to provide specific coding help for such customization concerns, but you may utilize the countless resources available over the Internet.

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