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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Log into Twitter and go to “Settings” (from the menu) then select “Design” from the sub-menu.
4. Scroll right down and click on the button that says “Change Background Image”
5. 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.
6. Click on “Save Changes” (don’t select tile background)
7. 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…

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