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June 8, 2015
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  • June 8, 2015
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Is it possible to change the background image for the My Marketo dashboard?

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Best answer by Grant_Booth

Hi Eric,

The various background images are set in the UI and can't be customized, although they are changed to different photographs every few months or so.

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Grant_Booth
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Level 9
June 8, 2015

Hi Eric,

The various background images are set in the UI and can't be customized, although they are changed to different photographs every few months or so.

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    kim.meyers
    Level 2
    October 6, 2015

    Is there a story behind the pictures used in the backgrounds?

    Dan_Stevens_
    Dan_Stevens_
    Level 10
    October 6, 2015

    Yeah, I think it's time for a refreshed image of the "amusement park skyride" that's been on the homepage for at least six months now.

      Grant_Booth
      Grant_Booth
      Level 9
      October 7, 2015

      Out of curiosity, I did a little research and this is actually pretty easy to do with browser extensions, for example Firefox has one called Stylish that lets you write your own CSS rules:

      Stylish :: Add-ons for Firefox

      I believe Chrome has something similar.

      Using your browser's element inspector to figure out the ID or class of what needs to be changed, you can edit the style of pretty much anything you want. Keep in mind that if you're seeing some UI performance problems in Marketo, after clearing your cookies and cache, you'll want to try disabling extensions like this one as well.

      Here I use the element inspector to find the ID of the div where the background image is set:

      Here, I create a rule in Stylish to override that element's background-image property:

      And here's the result in My Marketo: the background image that loads is of the moon Pandora from Avatar:

      Have fun, and remember to keep it SFW! But keep in mind that if you do this, you'll miss out on the new images we set to be the default background

      Grant

        Jamie-Carey
        Jamie-Carey
        Level 4
        October 7, 2015

        Nice work Grant!

        Grant_Booth
        Grant_Booth
        Level 9
        October 7, 2015

        Engage!

          Philip_Tieu
          Philip_Tieu
          Level 5
          October 7, 2015

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          Anonymous
          October 7, 2015

          Now the thing to do is publish a userstyle with your image picks:

          https://userstyles.org/

            Grant_Booth
            Grant_Booth
            Level 9
            October 7, 2015

            Good idea!

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              Anonymous
              October 9, 2015

              Tampermonkey or Greasemonky plugin, depending on your browser.

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