If you’ve ever created a Twitter account and customized it with some text, you would have discovered that the amount of text that you can display to describe yourself is very limited.

This is where designing, creating, and publishing a creative Twitter background and using it as your billboard comes into place.

Many designers and creatives utilize actual illustrations and images that will attract the viewers’ attention. By capturing a reader’s imagination in the process, illustrative backgrounds will most likely remain within their memory for a longer period of time.

Here are 100 creative Twitter backgrounds that feature illustration, that should inspire your own Twitter designs.

Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible.

The more usable a site is, the more satisfying it will be to interact with it — and happy visitors translate into happy customers.

Ideas about what makes for the best website design don’t always translate perfectly when put into practice. Elements that one person might consider easy to use may actually turn out to be confusing for someone else.

In this article, we’ll review 10 tools that you can use to improve your website’s usability even if you’re on a low budget.

Cats and dogs. Cain and Abel. Designers and developers. These are just a few of the great historical face-offs.

Designers and developers often seem to come from different planets and have completely different brains.

Developers want a website to work right, designers want it to look right.

While these goals have a lot of overlap (and, of course, I’m stereotyping here a bit), the differences often come down to the designer and developer’s expectations of success.

Managing expectations is a matter of communication: making points clearly to the other side, finding common ground, and agreeing on goals.

Okay, so maybe it’s not that easy, but it is important for both sides to at least try to understand each other.

In an effort to promote goodwill between designers and developers, I will share some pet peeves I have encountered and explore the issues that lead to them and their solutions.

This week we’re starting a new trend here at WDD: Our favorite tweets of the week!

We tweet a lot of interesting stuff during the week highlighting great content that we find around the web that can be of interest to web designers.

Starting today and every Sunday, we’ll be featuring a selection of the best links that we tweeted during the week.

Although the best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, I realize that if you follow many blogs you might miss a few of our tweets, so this should be a useful and cool compilation of what you may have missed.

Note that this is just a small selection of the tweets that we sent out this past week. For the full list, simply follow us @DesignerDepot