Customize Live ID Sign in and Registration experience

One of the biggest bits of feedback from customers that use Live ID on their website is that the Live ID sign-in and registration experiences should be customizable so that instead of a Windows Live brand and look and feel, the user gets a look and feel consistent with your website so they aren’t confused as to why the brand has changed.

Old Sign-in Experience

New Sign-in Experience

We’ve just launched the ability to customize the sign-in experience so that you can now achieve something that looks like this:

New Sign-in Experience Customization Areas

You can customize everything in orange:

The technical documentation is here:

• Overview on Customizing the Sign-in Experience 
  • Customizing the Sign-in page
  • Dynamic Sign-in Query String
  • Localizing the Sign-in Page
  • Sign-in Page Example
  • Sign-in Page XML Reference 

Old Registration Experience

New Registration Experience

You are now able to customize the registration experience in the following way:

• Thematically, by changing the fonts, colors, and images that appear on the registration pages.
• Contextually, by selecting a registration flow. A registration flow determines what information users must provide when creating a Windows Live ID, and how users are asked for that information.

Here is the documentation you need:

• Customizing the Registration Experience
  • Understanding Registration Flows
  • Associating a Registration Flow
  • Customizing a Registration Page
  • Registration Page Example
  • Registration Page XML Reference