How To Get The Best From Your Backgrounds For Twitter
Image is everything; no matter how much we try to refute it. This is just as true regards web page design, as it is the design of our clothes. As more and more of us join the Twitter family of micro-bloggers, selecting the right backgrounds for your Twitter page is becoming increasingly important.
While the quality of your tweets will be all important, the image you present of yourself through your background will help keep visitors hooked. Having only seconds to make an impression therefore; it is paramount that you get your key information across.
Twitter themselves has of course done most of the groundwork for you and, the background selection they invite you to look through is, whilst not extensive, well presented and laid out.
Once you are more comfortable with using the micro-blogging sensation, you can of course start to express yourself more.
The quickest and most straightforward way to get your own background up and running is to simply upload an image from your desktop or such. There are few computer owners in the world today that cannot work this one out.
Once the image is selected, you then only need to decide which way to display it; tiled or centered. Be sure to check how the definition is altered when selecting this, and if tiling, make sure it doesn’t distract or create pain to the eyes.
The background is not all about the main graphic that sits behind the text of course; it is just as important to work on the color scheme, and tailor the layout and coloring of your text. Look at combinations that compliment; rather than draw the eye unnecessarily.
People who have a site (or a blog) can have “Twitter follow me buttons” on their site that will send them directly to your twitter page so that they can decide to follow you. After all, if they are reading your site, they must have an interest in what you have to say.
As with blogging in general; the backgrounds for Twitter you decide to run with should be reflective of you and your personal image. Take some time thinking about what suits you, rather than rushing to replace the Twitter offerings with something below standard.
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