Initial Settings For A New Gmail Account

Once you have signed up and got a new Gmail account, I suggest to have some useful settings done before logging out of your account, so that every time you sign in again, you would feel a little more comfort in your Gmail experience.

• Update your Gmail Password Recovery Options, this is very important …read more
• Update your profile picture (your Google picture) so that your contacts or the people to whom you send the mail can see it …read more
• Select a best suitable theme for your Gmail account and have the looks that you would like …read more
• Put your Signature that would be appended at the end of the mails that you send to others…read more
• Put a Vacation Responder, if you will use Gmail for some official purpose or if you need to let some or all of those contacting you know that you are offline currently and will be back in these many days …read more
• Import your mails and contacts from other email account …read more
• Access your Gmail account offline …read more
• View YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews in your mails …read more
• Put a attachment detector in case you wish to send an attachment in your mail but actually forgot to attach the file …read more
• Create a document from the mail in your Inbox or the one you are sending or sent …read more
• Undo the mail sent mistakenly, if done within few seconds of clicking the Send button …read more
• Add a Calendar to your Gmail page …read more

And there are many more features that you can add to your Gmail account. In fact, you can change these settings at any time, not necessary that you should update them at the time of account creation. But if you have time, it is better that you know your email account and its capabilities and use it to its best from the very beginning.