In the last Twitter tutorial I showed you how to set up your picture – the one that people see everytime you tweet. So… people will see all these little faces, something like the picture below:
Next step is to add a great background picture to your page. A lot of pages have customized backgrounds. And… there’s a real quick of getting a nice picture that takes up the whole background, if you just want to get started quickly. You can always get a customized background later on, with your name and other things written on it. Best thing to do first though, is to get started.
So…. here’s one easy way. Find yourself a large picture of something you really like – you’ve probably already got one on your computer or on your digital camera.
- Use your favorite Picture editing tool to make sure the picture is about (doesn’t have to be exact) 1,747 pixels in width and about 724 pixels in height.
- Change your picture (image) to a “gif” format, and when you do that reduce the resolution of the picture. This will make it smaller so that Twitter will upload it.
- Log into Twitter and go to “Settings” (from the menu) then select “Design” from the sub-menu.
- Scroll right down and click on the button that says “Change Background Image”
- Click on the “Browse” button (like you did when adding your picture in the last lesson), then from your computer files, select the picture that you just modified.
- Click on “Save Changes” (don’t select tile background)
- Now you should have your picture covering the whole background of your page, similar to the one on Julieanne van Zyl Twitter page. See picture of the page below…
