Make Your Own Google Talk Themes

Here is the tutorial on how to make the google talk themes

1) Searching for Google Talk themes:

"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\system\chat"

Copy and paste the above location in the My Computer address bar. (remove double quotes) Press Enter and you will see the default location for themes.

2) Create a new folder and name it gtricks.

3) Let us choose theme ClassicPicture because of its simplicity. Go inside the folder ClassicPicture and you will find another folder named Contents. Copy it.

4) Navigate back to gtricks folder. Paste the Contents folder inside gtricks folder.

5) You will discover folder named Resources inside Contents. And inside Resources you will find few more files like main.css, status.html and others.

Next is providing your own background image in resources:

6) Choose a image of size 300x250 which will act as theme background.
(Preferably a lighter color image). Name it aery.jpg .

7) Create a folder inside Resources folder and name it Images.

8) Put image Aery.jpg inside the folder Images.
So resultant cutomized backgroung will be
gtricks -> Contents -> Resources -> Images -> Aery.jpg

9) Navigate back to Resources folder and you will find main.css which specifies the style of theme.

10) Double click to open it and try to locate this code:

BODY {
margin: 6px;
}

11) Add background-image: url("Images/Aery.jpg"); to above BODY class.

now it should look like:

BODY
{
margin: 6px;
background-image: url("Images/Aery.jpg");
}

Save it.

12) You are done for the first part. Close Gtalk from the system tray and restart. Go to settings and them appearance to select theme.

If you are familiar with CSS then you can continue editing main.css to modify fonts, colors, text alignments etc.