Twitter background fun

I’ve spent some time today having a play with twitter. In particular I’ve looked at the design options they give.

At first it seemed fairly trivial, however I was soon forced to have a rethink.  The main issues I had were twitter reporting odd errors when uploading fresh background images.  Along with the variations caused by browser size differences.  To get a good looking background with some features on the left was hard without ignoring smaller browsers.  Looking around at other people with wicked backgrounds it’s clear they had the same issues.

I’ve always wanted a cartoon version of myself and it took so little time I was stunned.  I used WeeWorld which seemed the easiest and coolest looking that I found on a quick search.  I believe the result is instantaneously recognizable to those who know me.

Next up it was a case of finding a nice font to use for the text.  Luckily I had seen a twitter post with some nice fonts from my nice Sister in Law Celia.

In the end I also changed some of the template on the blog too I liked the font that much!

I’m quite happy with the end result here on my twitter