[Off-topic] JknRich:
Ok guys I'll try my best to give you easy way to customise your home screen further.

Once you have the basic mapped out the rest is pretty much straight forward.

So here goes. If something does not make sense please say.

Before I start all credit goes to the guys who made the skins that I am using.

Here is the thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36326720

I am not taking there work I am just helping people that want to know how to build there own custom home screens.

1. Download either Nova Launcher Or Apex Launcher. Some Customised themes will work better or Apex Launcher and some will work better On Nova. I got both the prime versions of both Launchers. Its not a big thing if you do not have the paid versions but can help.

CUSTOM LAUNCHER SETTINGS

Like I said Nova will work but it still needs a little bit of playing with to make it fit.

Apex Launcher/Nova Launcher

10 x 8 Grid

Hidden Status Bar and Dock

Set your margins to NONE

I used all UCCW widgets set at 5x1 and just made them fit the screen.

Also download the second set of files not the first.

2. Download UCCW (Ultimate Custom Widget) this is the base of your widgets to edit, add Hotspots etc.

3. For the people who not that great at designing make use of other peoples creations. They do not mind just give them a thanks. Find a design you like and download there .uzip files. Uzip is the file that UCCW reads. There is a great website for different home screens I shall post the link at the end.

For this I will be using the home screen made by

4. Blank Canvas open your Launcher and make sure its completely set to stock. Remove anything you have pre-installed and away we go.

5. So now you have your blank canvas. Your downloaded files. Also download the wallpaper that is to do with your theme. Open up UCCW and go to import skins.

Once you clicked this. This screen will appear

Make sure you have downloaded BK's second lot if files as I had problems with the first. Also remember where you have downloaded them as you will need to find the files

6. Once you have imported your skins you then click on Open/Import/Manage Skins

Once clicked you will get a list of your imported widgets that you have.

You click the widget you wish to edit.

It will drop it into the editing area. You then have a lot of options, but you do not need to play around with a lot of these as there already done.

The main ones are setting up your hotspots. These act as you app buttons.

7. Setting up your hotspots

Here we have BK's Bottom Widget it has 5 app buttons that need to be setup.

The apps are as followed. (From left to right)

Messaging

Browser

Phone

Camera

Email

For this tutorial I will be editing the message app.

You the need to select "Select Object"

Then hotspots

Then the widget will look like this.

The colour represent where you can push to make the app work when its in your home screen.

After this you need to select Hotspot

Then select app

Then select messages

And there you go that is the basics. Repeat for the next for just selecting a different app for the icons.

When it comes to setting up your email account you go back to select object. Then down to gmail then you scroll the bottom action section along till you get this.

Then select account and it will assign your gmail.

Remember though to do your hotspot for the app.

So the following steps will work for the Weather, clock and calendar widget.

Once this is done enable hotspot mode

This is found in the menu.

Hope this helps. Any questions please ask.

Also check this website out.

http://www.mycolorscreen.com

You will find some amazing home screens.