If you have a Google Apps account you can change the default Google logos to your own, putting all your stuff in company colors. Whatever I work with I always customize to give it the smooth Hack Your Day feel, so I needed to put my own logo on there, no question about it.

It can pretty simply be done, all you need to do is go and manage your domain, click on domain settings and go to appearance. You will see that you can change the header image, although this will stay the same for all services. Be sure to make it exactly 143×59 or else it won’t work. For some reason Google crops bigger pics, but doesn’t put them in in the end.

Another word of advice to Photoshoppers, don’t just downsize your pic if it’s a lot bigger. My logo was about 2400×1200 and it looked horrible. The reason probably is that you’re going too small, sizing a huge image to 300×200 is fine, but with this size it didn’t work for me. I got around it by changing the size of individual elements, and then placing them together again. This makes sense as shapes are vectors, so can be resized in a scalable fashion, text looks better if you simply type smaller and gradients can easily be done again. It’s a little more work, but the result is much better.