Highlight: Twitter Background
It seems the in thing right now is to have a custom twitter background. This is a great idea for authors and businesses.
But I urge everyone to be careful when designing their background. It’s easy to design what you think is a great twitter background and have it be partially visible to a majority of your followers.
Why? Screen size and resolution. If you design your background wrong, it will be useless to some of your users.
I recently began following Donna Amos. And when I went to her page I noticed her background was squished. I had my husband bring it up on his monitor to see how it looked there.
His monitor:
My monitor:
And here’s what it looks like at 800 x 600.
With that in mind, I set about creating a new background for my twitter page:
And the Pixelware Design twitter page:
You’ll notice that I’ve kept the image tall and skinny. Then I set the background of the twitter page to the same color as the background of my “background image”.
My images are about 126 wide x 524 pixels tall.
You can add a background and update your color scheme in the settings area of your Twitter account.
Good luck!
PS. Donna Amos always has great advice for entrepreneurs. You should follow her.