Valve gives Steam developer and publisher pages a lot more customization options

Valve have announced major changes for Steam developer and publisher pages, allowing devs to customize them a lot more to their liking.

With the latest updates developers can now customize the colours and images shown on the pages, along with adjusting all the lists of games exactly how they want. The pages are still opt-in, but Valve have also set-up various templates developers can pick if they want to have a page but don't want to dive in deep with customization.

In a news post Valve developers mentioned to devs: "You can do as much or little with your new homepage as you wish. Set it up to run automatically without further edits, or get hands-on with updating as frequently as you want" and additionally noted:

• Just the defaults - The easiest setup is to simply create one of these new homepages to replace your existing homepage. The initial setup creates a page with default sections that work great out of the box for most cases.
• Configure for automatic updates - Building on top of the default template, you can customize your new homepage with your own choice of sections that automatically populate with your latest releases and new upcoming titles.
• Customize for special occasions - Optionally, you can stage future versions of your homepage with special graphics, video, and layout to support the launch of a new game or major update. Enable and disable alternate versions of your homepage whenever you wish.

There's also a Steamworks developer video that goes over all that's new:

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Sounds pretty good - nice to see Valve offer developers more options. This way developers (and publishers) are more likely to link you directly to their special page to get an overview of all of their stuff on Steam.