Organize your Home Screen with Live Tile Generator (No Jailbreak Required)

[Aaron McCarthy]

Just as the title says.

Go to http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/ on your phones internet browser (IE, Surfcube etc)

It will generate a webpage with whatever title's you want so that you can organize your homescreen.

Once the page is generated click the bottom 3 dot menu and select "pin to start"

Done and done that easy!.

Enjoy guys!

By the way, NOT my work I just stumbled across this reading through some WP7 news threads

 

[Aaron McCarthy]

Just thought I'd add a few photos to show everyone how easy it really is. Literally just follow along with the steps shown and you shouldnt have any issues. It's about as easy as... well... it can be!

 

[Purple11]

But how did the color of other tiles changed?? For me it just shwos one tile with 'test' as black.. all other tiles have the old color..

 

[Aaron McCarthy]

What other tiles, my actual App tiles?... The Grey? That was done using a colour changer that you can use when you have a jail broken phone. This is not going to change the colour of all your tiles. This just adds custom tiles that you can use to organize your home screen

 

[Avandor]

http://blog.iqagency.com/?p=3751

Read about it here... awesome idea and it has organised my start screen beautifuly.

 

[eizsoft]

woow this is really great I hope Microsoft make something like this

 

[Avandor]

woow this is really great I hope Microsoft make something like this

Microsoft has already given you the ability to do this, and it works great. Check the links.

 

[RoboDad]

Microsoft has already given you the ability to do this, and it works great. Check the links.

That's true, and it does work, but it isn't a perfect solution. If the OS provided the ability to add special "title" and "separator" tiles (that don't respond to taps) that followed the user's selected color theme, then it would be perfect, especially if those special tiles could be half height.

Still, after adding my own categories last night, my Start screen is light years better than before. I think I may follow the example of the link you created though, and redo mine in Photoshop and upload them to my own web space. Then I could make better use of side-by-side tiles.

 

[hx4700 Killer]

This is pretty simple and somewhat eligant but frustrating in the fact that if you click on it you go to a web page.

 

[Avandor]

That's true, and it does work, but it isn't a perfect solution. If the OS provided the ability to add special "title" and "separator" tiles (that don't respond to taps) that followed the user's selected color theme, then it would be perfect, especially if those special tiles could be half height.

I agree... I have yet to click on any of the tiles I pinned (have 3 currently), but would be perfect if no link was added, just a simple separator style of tiles (with different lengths).

 

[tagazok]

Hello all

I updated the page (http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/) It’s now possible :
-to add a picture as a background instead of a color
-share the link so you can create them on your desktop and simply copy/past the url or you can share it with your friends.

And I also removed the white space at the left of the text.

So, you can now have things like that :

Enjoy

 

[zard]

Nice work! Thanks.

 

[zard]

Hello,

Suggest that you make colored squares with the upper half of the square in black and the bottom colored. In this way, the black upper half will give the illusion of black/blank space to separate the top tiles from the bottom category tiles.

Hello all

I updated the page (http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/) It’s now possible :
-to add a picture as a background instead of a color
-share the link so you can create them on your desktop and simply copy/past the url or you can share it with your friends.

And I also removed the white space at the left of the text.

So, you can now have things like that :

Enjoy

 

[eghostx]

very cool stuff, thanks a lot for sharing!

 

[jklier]

Nice work!

If there was a way to organize the app page by category I'd be very happy!

 

[ahmedfikry]

Thank you very much
This is working great for me...

I hate to be picky, but i have a question:

is it possible to make these tiles half the height but keep the width the same (rectangle not square)?

this way you can see the new app "category" but not space the tiles so much apart.... or do the tiles have to stay at the set dimensions (square) from MS?

also, is there a way to disable the generated tiles from opening on clicking them by mistake??

Thanks again

 

[RoboDad]

All tiles are square, 173x173 pixels. There is no way to make a half height tile today. And, unfortunately, there is also no way to make a tile that won't respond to a "click".

The technique that we are using here isn't one that was designed to allow people to display category titles. It was designed to allow people to pin links to web pages onto the start screen.

 

[Endeavour1934]

You can always link those tiles to any web you want.

1. Load the image you want as a tile in the browser
2. Type a new URL on the address bar.
3. Quickly press stop (X) before the phone starts loading the new site. The new URL will be on the address bar but on the screen you will still have your tile image.
4. Pin to start. Now you have a web link tile with a custom image background.

 

[FlowerPotmen]

Just as the title says.

Go to http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/

It will generate a webpage with whatever title's you want so that you can organize your homescreen.

Once the page is generated click the bottom 3 dot menu and select "pin to start"

Done and done that easy!.

Enjoy guys!

By the way, NOT my work I just stumbled across this reading through some WP7 news threads

Yes cool, But go to the link on you mobile phone Internet Explorere.

Not your desktop/laptop.

 

[dkp1977]

Yes cool, But go to the link on you mobile phone Internet Explorere.

Not your desktop/laptop.

What's wrong with it? Works like a charm. If it doesn't work for you, I assume your IE is set to mobile view instead of desktop view. Switch and check again.