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Are you a fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar who wants to have your creative graphic work featured on Sarah’s Twitter page? Then be sure to check out this contest, which is open to everyone and was sent to us by the lovely Sarah herself:
Hi everyone,
Sarah here:
I wanted to do something fun when I reached 100,000 twitter fans but it’s hard to have a contest with only 140 characters, so I decided to ask my friends at Whedonopolis to host the contest info.
And thank you all for the 100k follows on twitter!!!
Good Luck and I can’t wait to see all the creativity!!!
XOXO,
SMG
You create a background for Sarah’s Twitter page and post it on Twitter with the hashtag #SMGTwitterContest, so SMG can see your work. She will then pick a background design and a profile banner to use as her Twitter profile until she hits her next 100k followers. A cool prize from the set of The Crazy Ones… and maybe even Buffy, will go to the creator(s) of the winning design.
If you plan on creating a background sidebar to go along with your background, create an image with dimensions around 235 pixels wide x 700 pixels tall and place your sidebar in the upper-right hand corner of your background when you’re finished.
Profile Banner: 520x 260Â Save both as a PNG file.Try it on your twitter to be sure it fits correctly.
No tiled images please! Be creative and use your imagination!
Here are some links that should help with getting the dimensions right:
Twitter Background
http://www.loudnoises.us/the-noise/how-to-design-the-perfect-twitter-profile-background/
Twitter Header
http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/how-to-design-the-perfect-twitter-header-image/
Help Uploading Your Background Image
https://support.twitter.com/articles/15357-customizing-your-profile-design#
Good luck to all on this awesome contest, and we here at Whedonopolis are just as excited as Sarah and her team to see the results!
Awesome start thinking I’m from colombia I can participate too?
How do you submit a design :)?
Love it Whedonopolis is apart of SMG contest
“post the image on Twitter with the hashtag #SMGTwitterContest”
All the details about the dimensions and limitations can be found above. 🙂
I believe you can, but just in case we’re in touch with SMG’s people for confirmation.
please let us know i’m from Chile i wanna participate too 🙂
Yes, this contest is open internationally. 🙂
International entries are welcome! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Does this mean I can’t make it on my iPhone, and it has to be on a regular computer?
Does the design have to be created on computer or can it be done through other methods e.g hand drawn?
Im trying to usea the background on my on account to see it fits but, the pic sav as PNG file dont work ? can someone help me?
Perfect, Thank you for your help.
How many are we allowed to submit?
We too :-]
We weren’t told there is a limit.
As long as you can convert it afterwards into a png. We’re going to ask the tech people if only as png or if it can also be as psd and/or jpg.
We’re going to ask
the tech people if only as png or if it can also be as psd and/or jpg.
i think you can create it wherever you’d like, as long as you’re able to submit it according to the guidelines.
how do you make one, because my profile/background I like and it would be cool to do but how would I tweet it
Can we submit just one of the two graphics, ie. just a banner or just a background, or do we need to submit matching background and banner? thanks!
You can do either or both. Your choice.
If you’re tweeting from the twitter website, after you click in the box to the left to type a message, you will see a little camera icon appear below the text box. click that, and navigate to the picture you’ve created. If your using a twitter app, it will be a similar process. Then when you tweet it, make sure to use the hashtag #SMGTwitterContest
Thanks !! cos really is not working
so the background has to be 1600 pixels wide x 1200 pixels tall exscally or can we resize it down a little bit ?
Cool!
do we suppose to just attach the pic to a tweet with the hashtag? is it gonna be the same size when you will copy it? and how can we upload 2 images (profile and background) if Twitter does not allow it? maybe it would be wiser to upload images on an image host site (there are plenty of them) and include a link in a tweet?
Or put a link in the tweet to where the artwork is.
All we can say is those are the specs we were given.