You can personalize your Home page to suit your needs by rearranging, resizing or removing panels.
To move a panel, click on the title bar and drag it to the desired location.
To change the width, hover on the edge of the panel until the cursor becomes a double-headed arrow
then drag to desired width. Or, click the double-headed arrow icon 
in the panel header and select a width from the list (i.e., 1/4, 1/2, Full Width, etc.)To remove a panel from the Home page, click the Trash icon
and click OK in the confirmation window.To add a removed panel back to the Home page, open the User Preferences menu, select the panel you wish to add from the Add Dashboard Panels list and click to place it at the bottom of the Home page. You may then drag it to the desired location.
The
icon enables you to collapse the panel so that only the title bar is visible. Click it again to restore.Click the Maximize icon
in a panel to hide all other panels. Click the Minimize icon 
to restore the other panels.To restore the Alerts, Watch List and/or Task List icons back to the topbar if they have been removed, click the Restore icon
. To export the panel contents as a PDF, click the PDF icon
.
Other ways to personalize:
Change Action Tile positions and colors (click the Action Tiles link)
Change Theme (click the Changing the Theme and Theme Color link)
Change colors (click Changing Background, Menu Bar, and Panel Header colors link)