Gmail's New Look: Rolling Out Now

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Google has revamped its popular Web-based e-mail service Gmail with a new design, navigation changes, better search options, and HD themes.

A new and different looking for Gmail is now landing in users' inboxes.

The Gmail redesign, news of which leaked a couple weeks ago, is rolling out now, according to the Official Gmail Blog. Over the next few days, a "Switch to the new look" link will appear in the bottom-right corner of Gmail. All users will get the redesign soon after, regardless of whether they click the link.

Here's a refresher on what's new with Gmail:

New Design

Gmail now takes on a similar look to Google+ and other products that have received the redesign treatment. Buttons are a light gray with sharp edges, and a big red "Compose Mail" button adds a tough of color to the interface. If you were using the "Preview" or "Preview (Dense)" themes in Gmail already, the new design should look familiar. But now, you can control the density of information by clicking the gear icon near the top-right side of the screen.

Navigation Changes

Labels and chat contacts now stay in view at all times. You can also customize the left navigation panel to show more more labels and less chat contacts, or vice versa.

New Conversation View

Gmail no longer assigns arbitrary colors to the names of each person in a conversation. Instead, each message includes profile picture. For every previously-read message, the sender and a snippet of text are now separated onto two lines, instead of being mashed into one.

Slicker Search

A dropdown button in the search box now brings up advanced options such as searching by sender, recipient, subject and keywords. This streamlined search box takes the place of the "show search options" link in the old design.

HD Themes

Theme images are no longer blocked off by sidebars and other navigation panels. Images now extend across the whole screen, and Google is adding a new set of HD theme images from iStockphoto.

More Ads

Google doesn't mention this in its blog post, but the

for Gmail's new look shows ads in a couple new places. While viewing the main inbox, a text-based ad appears on top, and when viewing individual e-mails, the ad moves down below. The new Gmail ads look a bit like the optional "Web Clips" that users can add to Gmail, but these are different, because you can't scroll through them for editorial content.

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[Ambrocious]

Ya know, as much as I know Google is like a double edge sword, like a gun, it can be used for finding the most difficult of things AND it can be used to snoop on you, I still have a gmail account as my primary account. I suppose, Im stupid on top of not caring and balzy. Is balzy a word? Balsy? I'm drinking vodka.....LEAVE ME ALONE!

[CODYQX4]

The new layout in Google Reader makes me want to gouge my eyes out, then they put it on GMail which is also crap. Calendar is fine but whoever thought Reader doesn't look like pure horrible garbage when they made it needs to be institutionalized.

[Atasas]

lol, just checked my gmail account, declined new look, now seeing as what I have declined. Google is big and from friendly underdog has turned in to reallly big commercial venture, shame no real alternatives left , but I recon needs to be avoided now :think:

[toyo]

Just use a IMAP client with it and skip on the web interface completely.

[Atasas]

could, would, but do have an health condition: hate all mail clients, since M$ outlook and few other tested, but being incompatible with ie Sony Erricson PC Poop suite. live (Hotmail) and yahho are last century, so whenever need to- back to gmail... even on the phone