Comments on: Twitter Background Images http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:19 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: blogmoneymania http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1508 blogmoneymania Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:59:21 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1508 I LOVE that pic you have for your background -it looks like a silver plate photo. Gorgeous! I LOVE that pic you have for your background -it looks like a silver plate photo. Gorgeous!

]]> By: violet http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 violet Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:16:51 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1104 Good info - thank you. And I love the sepia copper mine pic! My twitter background is a pic from our holidays last year. It's a scene from Savoury Island off the coast of B.C. I tweaked it till it showed just one image of moi on the left while the rest of the partial tiles are just bits of the scenery. Good info – thank you. And I love the sepia copper mine pic!

My twitter background is a pic from our holidays last year. It’s a scene from Savoury Island off the coast of B.C. I tweaked it till it showed just one image of moi on the left while the rest of the partial tiles are just bits of the scenery.

]]> By: Matt Clark http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Matt Clark Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:07:53 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1102 Good stuff! The left side is the "safezone" — just make sure you design for small resolutions and large. Too many times I see backgrounds that are cut off. The minimum would be 1024x768 and the max 1920x1200 :) You can check out our free backgrounds at www.tweetpages.com too :) Good stuff! The left side is the “safezone” — just make sure you design for small resolutions and large. Too many times I see backgrounds that are cut off. The minimum would be 1024×768 and the max 1920×1200 :)

You can check out our free backgrounds at http://www.tweetpages.com too :)

]]> By: LisaMurray http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 LisaMurray Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:14:32 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1101 I love this article. And I have wondered about your background image. And being from Arizona, I got a kick out of finding out what the picture is. A while ago, I just created a basic template. I'm not sure if it's "me" but now that I've read this article, I will look around and seek to upgrade. The problem is that most people seem to be on Tweetdeck (or the like) so the backgrounds don't show up. I don't know, what are the percentages? How many people are accessing our Twitter pages with their web browser vs. Tweetdeck/etc.? Thanks again for the great article! - LisaMurray :-) I love this article. And I have wondered about your background image. And being from Arizona, I got a kick out of finding out what the picture is. A while ago, I just created a basic template. I’m not sure if it’s “me” but now that I’ve read this article, I will look around and seek to upgrade. The problem is that most people seem to be on Tweetdeck (or the like) so the backgrounds don’t show up. I don’t know, what are the percentages? How many people are accessing our Twitter pages with their web browser vs. Tweetdeck/etc.? Thanks again for the great article!

- LisaMurray :-)

]]> By: Renee Alexander Hamilton http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Renee Alexander Hamilton Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:08:56 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1100 WOW-I was half way through your blog and thinking of tweeting you to see what you think of my background and then WOW you mentioned me. THANKS MATT! For the record, I put a lot of thought into my background, I wanted it to reflect that I am fun yet strong and of course point out the 3 things I am always doing: talking, thinking and (hopefully)doing good! WOW-I was half way through your blog and thinking of tweeting you to see what you think of my background and then WOW you mentioned me. THANKS MATT! For the record, I put a lot of thought into my background, I wanted it to reflect that I am fun yet strong and of course point out the 3 things I am always doing: talking, thinking and (hopefully)doing good!

]]> By: Brian Hanson http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Brian Hanson Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:09 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1099 Low res users like 1024x768 can try a trick. Hold down control key and click the + or - keys with your browser open. This will adjust the browser resolution. This is not changing the computer resolution, only the browser. You can also use the lil magnifying glass located in the bottom right of most browsers. There you can also make adjustments. If you use FireFox you can get the add on "NoSquint" and the sky is the limit! Hope this helps all you corporate folk! Low res users like 1024×768 can try a trick. Hold down control key and click the + or – keys with your browser open. This will adjust the browser resolution. This is not changing the computer resolution, only the browser. You can also use the lil magnifying glass located in the bottom right of most browsers. There you can also make adjustments. If you use FireFox you can get the add on “NoSquint” and the sky is the limit! Hope this helps all you corporate folk!

]]> By: Steve Cerruti http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Steve Cerruti Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:16:58 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1098 Robin, Yes, that is an issue and it makes it hard to design Twitter layout that works over multiple resolutions. Of course with Firefox a quick right-click and View Background Image will reveal the hidden secrets. IE 8 is not as convenient, but you can still save the background with a right click and view it by itself. The problem I see is all of that useful information tells me that Twitter needs to provide additional profile fields, or a single large HTML capable field. By having that information only available in the site design (i.e. background image) it is lost on users of other Twitter clients. Once the fields were available it might be possible to provide more site design capability to display that information as part of the design for Twitter.com users. Steve Robin,

Yes, that is an issue and it makes it hard to design Twitter layout that works over multiple resolutions.

Of course with Firefox a quick right-click and View Background Image will reveal the hidden secrets. IE 8 is not as convenient, but you can still save the background with a right click and view it by itself.

The problem I see is all of that useful information tells me that Twitter needs to provide additional profile fields, or a single large HTML capable field. By having that information only available in the site design (i.e. background image) it is lost on users of other Twitter clients.

Once the fields were available it might be possible to provide more site design capability to display that information as part of the design for Twitter.com users.

Steve

]]> By: Robin Zaleski http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 Robin Zaleski Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:50:21 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1097 We've been using a simple background but with art that includes all our twitter names and all our conference logos and websites for sometime now. My issue with the way that Twitter set up the background is that it is meant for at least a 1280 x 768 screen resolution. Those of us stuck with corporate-issued 15" 1024 x 768 laptops or monitors can't see the right half of the column of art on the left side of the screen. All that great info on Comcast Cares, Media Temple, etc is lost on us. I wonder if we cold get Twitter to change the absolute positioning of the body of the page so that it hugged the right side of the screen instead of the center... We’ve been using a simple background but with art that includes all our twitter names and all our conference logos and websites for sometime now. My issue with the way that Twitter set up the background is that it is meant for at least a 1280 x 768 screen resolution. Those of us stuck with corporate-issued 15″ 1024 x 768 laptops or monitors can’t see the right half of the column of art on the left side of the screen. All that great info on Comcast Cares, Media Temple, etc is lost on us. I wonder if we cold get Twitter to change the absolute positioning of the body of the page so that it hugged the right side of the screen instead of the center…

]]> By: Rich Kirkpatrick http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 Rich Kirkpatrick Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:39:19 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1096 I have wallpaper from Rock Band, one of my favorite video games on Xbox that I get to play with my family. It lets people know I like music and yes...even video games, besides being a minister at a church. It gets a lot of fun responses so far. Maybe its time to change, though. I have wallpaper from Rock Band, one of my favorite video games on Xbox that I get to play with my family. It lets people know I like music and yes…even video games, besides being a minister at a church.

It gets a lot of fun responses so far. Maybe its time to change, though.

]]> By: Chris Dattilo http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-background-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 Chris Dattilo Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:46:14 +0000 http://mattsingley.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-1094 Thanks for the helpful tips. I work for a nonprofit where we've been wrestling how to handle multiple people tweeting from the same account. Authenticity is important, so I like both Comcastcares and Mediatemple's examples vs. a Hootsuite type solution (multiple people not identified tweeting for one account). Helpful link to the Photoshop tip as well. Thanks Matt! Thanks for the helpful tips. I work for a nonprofit where we’ve been wrestling how to handle multiple people tweeting from the same account. Authenticity is important, so I like both Comcastcares and Mediatemple’s examples vs. a Hootsuite type solution (multiple people not identified tweeting for one account).

Helpful link to the Photoshop tip as well. Thanks Matt!

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