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Composition
Width and height varies. Twitter’s design is centred, and shifts left and right across the background image, depending on the size of the user’s display and their web browser’s window size.

The background design should support a wide variety of window dimensions.
Broadly speaking, there are four types of Twitter background designs: extended profile, big image, fade to color, and tiled (repeating):

twitter bg types Twitter Background Guidelines Extended Profile
Extended profile designs allow the user to expand upon their biographical information, display a self-portrait, along with other useful (but non-clickable) links (eg. their Facebook profile, email address, etc). Extended profiles are also usually based on big image, or fade to color designs (see below).
Big Image
Whether it is an impressive photograph or a just a really large design, a big image design is great for big impact. Unfortunately, they don’t work well at all window sizes. Savvy designers can also include extended profiles and/or fade to color in a big image design.
Fade to Color
Fade to color designs add some visual interest, without the risk of ending in a harsh edge on larger displays. To achieve this, the image is blended at the edges into a single colour, which is then specified as the background color.

Tiled (repeating)
Tiled background designs produce a pattern-like effect. The main advantages of tiled designs is they work at any window size and are fast to load. However, the inherent repetition can be a drawback.

 

Optimal Dimensions
1280px is a common width to optimize for. Check with your contest holder.
This allows for two 250px wide columns either side of the main content area.

Minimum Dimensions
Small displays may obscure graphics placed to the left of the main content.
Most modern displays have resolutions greater than 1024 × 768px.

Maximum Dimensions
Larger displays may obscure graphics placed to the right of the main content.
1920 × 1200px should account for most display resolutions.
No more than 2560 × 1600px for expansive photographic-based designs.
This supports 30-inch cinema display resolutions!

Branding
ontwerps suggests 191 × 36px as optimal dimensions for branding (eg. a logo). The width is what is important here—not so much the height.
Add approximately 12px of padding from the top to neatly align with the top of Twitter’s logo.
A little padding along the left edge (20px to 40px) is nice and easy on the eye.
If text is incorporated into the background image then small font sizes should be used with caution (due to pixellation).

File Size
Twitter restricts images to a file size of 800 KB, or less.
Aim for 100 KB, or less.

File Types
Twitter accepts: GIF, JPG, and PNG file formats.

Color Palette
In Twitter, you can customize Twitter profile colors, under Settings › Design. Using hex codes, you can change the color of the background, text, links, sidebar, and sidebar border.

Download PSD Template

tt twitter micro3 Twitter Background Guidelines

  • Go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Categories
  • Add your Product categories here but do note your category ids, you can make a list of your category ids in a notepad file.
  • There might be a possibility that you need to define extra attributes for your products so for that go to Catalog >Attributes >Manage Attributes and click Add new Attribute. You can also save your Attributes sets based on the attributes you have defined.
  • Now go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Products
  • Add four to five products manually.
  • Now go to Magento Admin > System > Import/Export > Profiles
  • Click Export all products.
  • In Data Transfer choose Local/Remote Server (If you choose remote ftp, then you will have to provide the ftp information)
  • Any select Local Server (though its upto you) and click Save Profile.
  • Now click export all products again and then click Run Profile on your left.
  • This will save a csv file of your manually added products on to your local/remote folder
  • Download that csv file on to your computer using any ftp client (filezilla).
  • You will have a csv file having columns of all the product attributes such as store, websites, attribute_set, type, sku, category_ids, has_options, name,meta_title etc
  • Populate these columns with your products and add the category ids that you had already saved in a notepad file in category_ids column to properly assign the products to their respective categories.
  • When you are done, go again to Magento Admin > System > Import/Export > Profiles and click Import all products this time.
  • Click Upload file, browse for that csv file and then click Save Profile. (Or you can upload the csv file via ftp client such as filezilla to var/import folder)
  • Now again click Import all products, click Run Profile, Select the csv file that you have uploaded from the drop down and then click Run Profile in popup.
  • Products will start importing into your Magento Store

Problems with the import/export feature ?

I got the import/export business working by:

1. Using the default Export All Products profile and making sure to set the file name ending to .XML not .XLS
2. Using Excel to edit the file.
3. Using the default Import All Products profile to import.

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