The Etsy Mini is a cute little widget that you can add to your website to display your shop's or your favorite Etsy products. It can run on Javascript or Flash. You check mine out on the sidebar here.

It's a neat tool, but you can't change the background color very easily. For whatever reason, both the javascript and flash versions are locked down to a white background, which is annoying for those who have sites with a color background--like mine.

So I wrote a little tool / tutorial that you can use to do just that--change the background color. You can even change your username font color. But that's all it does. It doesn't hack the Mini in any way, but it just overrides the color codes that their code set. You can make a simple edit to the Mini code (if flash), or load the script on your own site or host it on mine (if javascript). The instructions are all there on this page.

Just convo me on Etsy or leave a comment here if you need help setting this up. Enjoy!