1. Using your favourite design software- we used Adobe Fireworks, which is specially designed for creating web images- create a new canvas which is 1500x1500px. This is about as big as Twitter will let you upload due to it's maximum file size limit.

2. Find yourself a decent copyright free background image that isn't dependent on size. Something patterned is good then you don't have to worry about any of it being missed off the edge or covered up by the main screen in the middle. We went for a seasonal background image (above).

3. 8 pixels into your canvas from the left, draw a rectangle that is 182px wide and as long is you need it to be in height. This is where your company information will go. If you make your rectangle any wider than this, some of it will be hidden by the main conversation screen on a 1024x760 resolution screen, which is what most of the population are still using.

Some of your information will be hidden to users who still have 800x600 resolution screens. But the number of users with this screen resolution is decreasing, so you should be pretty safe to most of your visitors.

 

4. In your rectangle, make sure you put all your vital information such as your company logo, your website address and your contact telephone number as well as a bit of a blurb about what you do. Unfortunately Twitter backgrounds don't allow you to have clickable links unless you use this firefox add-on for clickable links in Twitter but it relies on all your viewers having the same add-on, which is a bit of a stab in the dark to be honest, although a good concept if it were made a bit more global!

Hopefully, that's helped you out a bit. For a Twitter management quote or for a custom background design for your Twitter profile, contact us