Custom Themes

Want to totally change the look of your Posterous site? Now you can.

There are two types of customization:

• Basic theme and color customization is the simplest level that anyone can do. You can choose from a number of built-in themes that we'll be adding to all the time. Using color selectors, you give your posterous blog a twist all your own.
• Advanced full customization allows full CSS and HTML layout control over Posterous content.

We're currently building additional themes, but you can start customizing and writing your own. This guide will explain how you can write your own advanced custom themes.

We've designed the advanced level of customization to be specifically great for users who know CSS and HTML and aren't afraid to use it.

• HTML (aka Hypertext Markup Language) is the way we tell browsers what to display.
• CSS (aka Cascading Style Sheets) allow you to specify formatting and layout options. You should know what things like 'float: left;' and the difference between border, margin, and padding.

Got those things covered? Click one of the links above and lets get down to business.