We have decided to feature some Twitter backgrounds that we find really inspiring. Here is the first set of 10 twitter backgrounds we think you may enjoy. If you have come across some profile on twitter that uses creative background image, please feel free to inform us. You cna also suggest your own in your comment on this article. Enjoy.

Lee Maplesden

Brian Paulowicz

Kim Dean Art

Scott Clark

Think Design

Lorenzo Gabba

Djuro

Just Tweet It

Giographix Studios

James Ridlo

Alrigh, it is 17 of October and is time to announce the winners of our first contest Win 1 Year Free ElegantThemes Membership which was created on September, 15. First of all, i would like to Thank you all for your participation in the contest and i hope you will watch our blog for the next contest announcement. We actualy plan to have bigger rewards from now on and the next contest schould be exciting for our blog readers. To be able to be one of the first to hear about future contest announcements, we encourage you to subscribe to our RSS Feed. We cannot promisse a new contest to be announced very soon, but we plan to have the next contest for the New Year Eve and have the contest opened for longer period with bigger awards of multiple items and some hard cash :-).

Well, dont want to keep this article long, so here are the 3 lucky winners that won 1 year membership to the complete ElegantThemes Library with unlimited themes support on their forums. The winners are:

• Blaine Bullman
• Designer1993
• SarasotaWeb

Congrats guys and i hope you enjoy the contest.

This 3 lucky readers of our blog will be contacted shortly via email to receive the login details to access the ElegantThemes library. Thank you all again for your participation and i hope to see you again at our next contest.

Introduction - Here’s your chance to redesign the logo for the world’s number one freelancing website and win the grand prize which has jackpotted to US$15,000! GAF has passed their first million registered users, and they need an exciting, vibrant image which will help propel them to the next level!

Yes, thats right…an huge $15,000 dollars reward is waiting for you. The Breaking News is that GAF has luckily purchaised the domain name Freelancer.com and as a result GetAFreelancer will now be known as Freelancer™!  Based on this unexpected great news, now they extended their already existing logo design competition.

What does this mean?

As a result, GAF will be handing out all the original prizes (2nd to 10th place) this week (Friday 9th October) except the US$10,000 Grand Prize and People’s Choice award to the entrants for the GetAFreelancer logo, and extending the competition and jackpotting the grand prize to US$15,000 and total prizes to over US$20,000 for development of a new logo for their new name, Freelancer™!

Why have they done this?

The current developments it is the best thing to do rather than complete the current competition and then seek a redesign. GAF will be awarding the original 2nd to 10th place prizes this week to the entrants in the first round.

Yes! there will be ten new prizes for the new logo for Freelancer™!

As more people learning day by day how to use Twitter for self-promotion or brand marketing, many developers start to create their numerous applications using Twitter API and offering all the Twitter users multiple ways to make money on Twitter. I am sure there are dozen of methods on how to monetize your twitter account, but today we are going to review a few of the most recent ways to make a few easy dollars.

Most obvious method to make money on Twitter is related to visual advertising and this is possible to do with our Twitter backgrounds we use at our profiles. As you know, profiles and  twitter updates get enough attention from various followers, some companies have seen that and start to offer their tools to help you monetize your twitter account…one of them is TwittAd. TwittAd offers 2 ways to monetize your Twitter profile, post Twitter account for advertisers to aponsor and Opt-In to advertiser campaign.

Another method is let advertisers buy premium tweets. The one company i know is Magpie, their offer to twitter users to send sponsored updates with the texts and links submitted (paid for) by potential advertisers. It looks like this is also one of the most prefered methods by both partises, advertisers and publishers. One more similar service is TwitPub that also lets advertisers buy premium tweets that will only be distributed strictly to one’s approved followers as they only work with private Twitter streams. For publishers…make money as you tweet! TwitPub will reward you with high 80% Payout! Fast payment and scale quicker while you generate earnings with TwitPub’s innovative business model.

Something that is very interesting application for twitter that will let you calculate the value of your twitter account. TweetValue will even let you sell your account after verifying you are the owner. The application provides also badges you can use on your website or blog to showcase the value of your twitter profile.

Alright guys, it is time to start with some Give Away Stuff on BestBlogBox. As our first give away action, we have decided to buy for 3 of our our readers one year membership from ElegantThemes. In other words, 3 lucky people will get access to complete library of amazing premium wordpress themes for 1 year…and best of all, for free! If you’re looking for a new and eye catching theme for your WordPress blog or website, then here is the chance for you to win 1 year membership worth $19.95. Elegant Themes is a premium wordpress themes shop managed by Nick Roach. He craft his creations with a goal of simplicity and strive to inject each design with a dose modest elegance. ElegantThemes make sure that each theme performs flawlessly in each of the major browsers to insure maximum functionality.

Each of Elegant Themes’s WordPress themes come widget ready, coded in valid xhtml 1.0 transitional and CSS and compitable with all major browsers. Elegant Themes respects each customer by providing attractive and user-friendly templates and theme support for free on their forums.

HOW TO WIN A COPY?

1. Post a comment here and tell us shortly why you prefere WordPress as CMS. Make sure to enter valid email address in the “email field” as this email will be used to contact you if you win.
2. As 2nd, you will need to Subscribe to our RSS Feed, you can use the same email address you used for the comment post.
3. And as last we ask you to ReTweet this article using the “retweet” button on top of this article, if you dont have an Twitter account,  get one here.

The entries will be accepted until October, 15. There will be 3 lucky winners that will receive free one-year ElegantThemes memberships! The winners will be selected from the MySQL comments query randomlay and announced on October, 17 and contacted via their emails provided at the comment and the rss subscription.

It was time for the next freebie release, here is an fully layered TV DISPALY PSD file created by one of our contributors which you can DOWNLOAD FOR FREE. This TV Display is created at 300 DPI and the original file is at 7696×5648 pixels. There is also an 72 DPI file at 1200×867 pixels which you can view here to see the details. The PSD file is created in a way you can have some more customization options for the display and match it to your creations. You can use the file in many different projects to display some of your creations on it in more creative and professional way.

You are free to use this file on your personal or customers commercial and non-commercial project, however you may not redistribute, resell or claim exclusive ownership rights of this file. You can link to this article or Ping it, but do not provide direct download url…you can also Digg, Stumble, Buzz-up this post using the bookmarking services buttons on bottom of this article. We are going to have more of such Freebies and submit them here on our blog for free download, you may want to be the forst to know about updates?…go ahead and subscribe to our RSS Feed.

Here is a collection of 26 trendy photoshop web styles created by one of our contributors. This set of photoshop styles is available for FREE DOWNLOAD. You are free to use this styles on your personal or customers commercial and non-commercial project, however you may not redistribute, resell or claim exclusive ownership rights of this file. You can link to this article or Ping it, but do not provide direct download url…you can also Digg, Stumble, Buzz-up this post using the bookmarking services buttons on bottom of this article. We are going to have more of such Freebies and submit them here on our blog for free download, you may want to be the forst to know about updates?…go ahead and subscribe to our RSS Feed.

For thos who are tired of all this glossy, shiny, sparkling trends, this is the kind of styles you may really enjoy. Simple matte overlay with modern and trendy colours. You can use this styles to enhance your website feel and look, create amazing banner backgrounds, create buttons or simply style any text parts on your creations.

26 Styles in the .asl are (as shown on the item preview above):

- 18 colourful matte styles
- 4 black to transparant styles
- 4 white to transparent styles

The package include:

- 1 ASL file (the styles file to instal)
- fully layered PSD source file
- JPG preview image
- Help file on how to instal the style

Here is a chance for you to redesign the logo for world’s largest freelancing platform and win $10,000 HARD CASH. Submission Deadline is September 30th, 2009 (Midnight EDT). GAF is a global marketplace for online jobs where businesses connect with independent service providers to outsource their work. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, the site currently has over 935,000 registered professionals and businesses from 234 countries and territories worldwide.

DETAILS & PRIZES

Submissions are now being accepted through September 30th 2009 (midnight EDT). All contest submissions must be entered through our online submission form and must conform to our Contest Terms and Conditions in order to qualify for entry. Artists may enter multiple submissions. Late submissions will not be accepted, no exceptions.

Grand Prize: US$10,000 & Master Logo Designer Insignia added to user’s profile.

Announcement of the top finalists will be on Monday the 5th of October, 2009. The top finalists will be chosen based on a variety of factors including originality, creativity, ingenuity, and the artists efforts to promote their design. Following this, the final top 10 will be announced on Friday the 9th of October. On Monday the 12th of October, the fifth to tenth places will be announced. On Wednesday the 14th, fourth and third place will be announced. On Friday the 16th the winner and runner up will be crowned!

See the FULL GUIDANCE, RULES, PURPOSE and SUBMISSON FORMAT DETAILS

Here is our next FREE TEXTURES release, an great denim texture that you can use as website, blog, twitter, myspace profile page or any product presentation background. This set comes in 3 colors…blue, brown and black so you can choose the clor that suite your needs. The textures are in 72 DPI resolution and at 3000 x 2000 pixels.  You can also use this textures as base to create your own background using some abstract or grunge photoshop brushes. This small set is available for free download exclusively only at BestBlogBox that was created by one of our contributors…we hope you will find an great use of this textures.

 DOWNLOAD THE DENIME TEXTURES SET HERE

You maybe interested to get notified when a new textures set is released on BestBlogBox, we can suggest to subscribe to our RSS Feed and get notified. If you are interested with some of the premium textures of this author, you can view them HERE.

We all know the importance of followers on Twitter and the twitter-power. For sure, there is both, a “social play” and a “social communication” aspect to Twitter that makes it productive as a promotional tool for pointing to interesting things you’ve found on the web as well as a tool for building credibility and influence. Turn your Twitter account into a viral machine working round the clock for you growing your follower base and allowing you to spend time on the important things like Branding Yourself. Stop using all this expensive softwares and Twitter-Bots to increase your followers. Here is an easy and totaly free system that will get you ton of followers in almost no time. The system concept is not new…this is the power of leverage. Leverage is a method used by everyone who is successful, basically it uses the power of numbers. By joining the system,  you will automatically start following the first 8 people in front of you. A message posted on your twitter will automatically be formated with your unique link…meaning, that when people follow through to your twitter link, they will have to follow you in position 1 to use the system themselves.

This is an “Set it and Forget it” system…here is an example, lets say you referred just 4 people to the system and each of those people referred 4 more. The scheme below shows how quickly your twitter following would grow: