Valentine’s Day Themes: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer

Official Valentine’s Day Theme

This is the OFFICIAL theme for Valentine’s Day. Show you browser some love with a beautiful display of read and purple hearts, flowers, chocolates and Valentine’s imagery gracing your Firefox or Internet Explorer browser. In addition, this theme is interactive providing great dining suggestions, gift ideas, and the ability to send eCards or shop for flowers right from your browser! You can even watch the best Valentine’s Day videos directly in your browser’s sidebar. This is THE theme for Valentine’s Day 2012.

Love Birds Theme

This theme was created by one of our fans using our browser theme tool. Theme designer “MaDonna” created a cute and whimsical Valentine’s day inspired theme with two love birds kissing in a backdrop of a pink heart. A perfect gift for your loved one to show them how much you care.

Be My Valentine

This theme is a classic style Valentine’s Day theme for Firefox or Internet Explorer. Candy hearts grace the right-hand side of the theme along with a vintage pink background and a cursive “Valentine” font. This is a great theme for the classic Valentine’s Day fan.

Hearts for You

This is another user-created browser theme for Valentine’s Day. “Hearts for You” is an abstract design with dark red hearts, conveying a truly romantic feel for your browser.

Google Chrome Valentine’s Day Theme

Google Chrome theme fans don’t have many options when it comes to Valentine’s Day themes. This Google Chrome Valentine’s Day theme features a lighter pink and light blue background with love hearts floating through the theme. A beautiful skin for Chrome theme users.

Create Your Own Valentine’s Day Browser Theme

Some of these themes were created by readers just like you using our do-it-yourself browser theme creator. In less than five minutes you can create your very own theme and upload your design to our browser theme gallery, exposing it to thousands of visitors instantly. Feel free to give it a shot and let us know when you’ve created your very own Valentine’s theme.

We often talk about our interactive themes as offering an immersive visual experience integrated with content and functionality. I don’t think, however, we’ve referenced the intersection of the visual theme and integrated content. Specifically, how we’ve enabled the browser chrome to be an active communication tool and not just a placeholder for the theme and address bar.

Features

We’ve made the theme dynamic for partner’s like The Daily Beast, who put a thumbnail of their current feature story right into the browser theme. It’s a visual invitation back to their site that updates throughout the day allowing the user to keep up with the hot story of the moment. It’s compelling, it’s cool and it’s engaging. You can see a large screen shot on The Daily Beast’s browser theme download page. The image of Tiger Woods is the photo that updates automatically.

Sponsorships

For some partners, we’ve placed sponsorships into the browser chrome. Ontario University Athletics extended their sponsor agreement with the Dairy Farmers of Canada’s “Recharge with Milk” campaign and integrated the logo into their theme design. It’s a great example of making the sponsorship work while maintaining design integrity. The continued high percentage of click through is testament to its effectiveness.

Commerce

We’ve even leveraged the capability in our own topical themes, connecting our Valentine’s Day theme to the Ghirardelli Chocolate Store. The design incorporated a box of Ghirardelli chocolates and utilized that design element to provide a direct link to their store, turning the passive design into an active revenue opportunity.

It’s great stuff and it’s working. In the week’s to come there should be even more potential for making the themes ever more engaging.