{"id":202,"date":"2010-09-11T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/personalized-twitter-background\/"},"modified":"2010-09-11T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T19:09:46","slug":"personalized-twitter-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/personalized-twitter-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalized Twitter Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading my morning RSS feeds, I saw an article about creating a custom Twitter background. Since I didn&#8217;t have anything else planned for the day, I decided to attempt an update on my profile.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, I had a picture of a lovely orange day lily, with the Contextures web address added at the lower left side. It was better than using one of the standard backgrounds, but didn&#8217;t reveal too much about me, or what I do.<\/p>\n<p>The RSS feed article had a link to a blog with Twitter background templates, and <a title=\"Twitter background instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk\/tutorials\/twitter-background-design-how-to-and-best-practices\" target=\"_blank\">instructions for creating<\/a> your own. My Photoshop skills are minimal, and I&#8217;m using a really old version of Photoshop, but I plunged in anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The article gave me some ideas for adding things to my background, and links to some graphic effects (although a couple of them were dead pages).<\/p>\n<p>Instead of lined paper, a coffee mug and stains, I went with the cover of one of my pivot table books, the Contextures logo, and a goofy picture of me. (Yes, I know that every picture of me has some level of goofiness!)<\/p>\n<p>Then I added my email address and Contextures address. 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