Go to the site: [link]

Today AwesomeStart released a new feature that allows users to create their own startpage theme. The site previously let users customize their own startpage based on over four hundred themes in their gallery. Now users can create their own theme.

The new theme creator is now up at: [link] and is ridiculously easy to use. You enter the URL of an image, select a few colors, and name the theme.

The theme is saved on your computer via cookies, but you can then go the extra mile and publish it to the site. All you have to do is enter the URL you'd like and click the publish button.

Anyone can use a published theme by going to the chosen URL and setting it as their homepage. These pages can easily be shared using the "Share" link in the upper right hand corner of each page.

AwesomeStart has also integrated the new public themes into the main site search and gallery. After a brief delay, the theme will show up in the public gallery: [link] The gallery allows users to view submissions by tags to make browsing even easier.

Go to the site: [link]

It's fun to read the posts on our facebook page. For months now people have been speculating on the new mystery feature. We've finally got an announcement ready - you won't have to speculate much longer.

The new feature will go live this Wednesday, October 14th, 2009.

Beta testing has ended, and we're now cleaning the databases for launch. We've already said too much! See you Wednesday!

Go to the site: [link]

There is a brand new share feature in the upper right hand corner of every startpage. We started developing this feature as a part of our big feature update (which is planned to go up sometime in October). We decided to put up the sharing aspect early so everyone could start using it.

It's pretty simple - so you click "Share" in the upper right hand corner of the page and pick which site you'd like to share on. The site will open in a new window with all the information filled in. There's also a text field with some code incase you're just looking to show off your startpage via HTML.

We've coded the share popup so it will work on both javascript and non-javascript browsers. [link] [link] has also received an update to make use of the new feature. If you have a startpage set up, the promote page will display these sharing options by default. If not, you'll see the standard banner codes.

By using our own code rather than a third party plug-in like Addthis, the share feature will load faster and can expand to include other functionality in the future.

Click the "Share" link on your startpage and give it a try!

Go to the site: [link]

We love birthdays around here. They're international in celebration, universally recognized, and generally great excuses to eat cake. We're also big fans of looking back and seeing how far things have grown. As of today, AwesomeStart has been online a grand total of four years. That's like twenty-one in internet years, right?

This is usually the time of the year we gather 'round to reflect on the still surprising popularity and global reach of the site. This year is a bit different though…everyone's busy at work on the as-of-yet unannounced ''mysterious feature''. Seriously, what the hell is it?

Well, whatever it is, we're here to report it's in private beta! What does that mean? It means it's pretty much done but you still can't see it. We're sorry! All we're waiting on now is our self-selected team of startpage fanatics to get done testing it.

It's not as good as ''here you go!'' but it's certainly better than ''coming soon!''

As we say every birthday, AwesomeStart continue to offer everything for free. Yes, even the new mysterious what-not will be free. The best birthday present we could ask for is a mention on your blog, facebook, twitter, etc. Even if it's as simple as posting what page you use, help us out and tell people about AwesomeStart.com!

Go to the site: [link]

We've been busy at work on a brand new ''feature''. It's not so much a new feature like the previous one's we've brought you. Think bigger. We're not ready to say just what it is yet, but it should permanently fix your thirst for brand new startpages. This has been the top requested idea for over a year. We're hard at work on the final phase, so this brand new what-is-it should be going up really soon.