Top Tips for New Twitter Users

Twitter is expanding rapidly and if you aren’t already tweeting, then I suggest you do and we have put together a list of tips to help you get a good start on twitter.

Setting up your profile.
There is more to setting up than just signing up. What you should do is upload an avatar which will represent you, upload a avatar, add your location, add a link to your website (if you have one) and add a 140 character bio. Doing these simple tasks will make your profile a look a lot better than someone who has just signed up and hasn’t bothered adding their details. Look at the images below and you will see that adding your info makes you look a lot more respectable.

Good Profile
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Bad Profile
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Converting a PSD to XHTML/CSS

In this tutorial we are going to create a XHTML/CSS webiste by slicing a PSD, the PSD we will be using is the one from a previous tutorial we did on here called Creating A Nighttime Layout. I would suggest you get yourself a cup of tea as this tutorial can take over an hour to get through.
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Creating a Nighttime Layout in PhotoShop

In this tutorial we are going to be using PhotoShop to create a simple nighttime layout for a webpage. The tutorial should take around 15-20 minutes to complete and when finished will look like the image below.

Photoshop Nighttime Layout

So lets get started…

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Creating a custom 404 Page

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to create a custom 404 page for your website. A 404 page is the error page which comes up when a user tries to go to a page which doesn’t exist on the server, this can happen when someone a link to your site is outdated i.e. you have removed that page.
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Creating a CSS Rollover

In this tutorial we are going to teach you how to make a simple CSS rollover, a bit like the ones on the BBC iPlayer.
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