Something I find annoying about Twitter is the fact that it doesn’t give you the option to centre your background image, it will only let you tile it or position it at the top left of the screen. This, combined with the fact that people will be viewing your Twitter page with varying screen resolutions, poses a challenge to the design aspect of it.

There are however a few handy tips that you can use when creating an effective Twitter background and few people have written some best practices like these to help you out.

I’ve gone for the background graphic fading to colour technique to keep it inline with the look of this site.

Also, if you can’t be ars*d designing your own you can download them from places like twitterbackgrounds.com.

WordPress have now made it possible for instant syndication of all blog posts. RSSCloud now means that blog content can be as up to date as services such as Twitter. Their .com users are already using the benefits of this feature and there’s a plugin available for all self-hosted blogs which means an upgrade isn’t even necessary.