how to make your own facebook timeline cover

One of the things that I love about blogging is that you’re always learning. You were thinking one thing was the right way to do it and then you hear something else and realise that you want to change. I was always under the impression of keeping all of your colours and branding the same on your Facebook page. I thought that my timeline cover should be my blog header to keep it all consistent. Well Amy Porterfield, remember I called her Facebook guru and I do like to call it like it is, well she says let your timeline cover describe you. Ohhhhhhhhhhh. And so I realised that having my blog header as my Facebook timeline cover actually doesn’t tell you much about me.

So I went off to PicMonkey and realised (because I was trying to find the right layout of squares) that there is even a template with the exact dimensions you need for a Facebook timeline cover. Woo hoo. So here is how you do it. The first thing I did was go through flickr and my blog and pick a few great photos. Things that I love so cakes, knitting, quilting (not that there is much of that these days but I love it), fabric (plenty of fabric love going on right here at this house) kids (I’ve got plenty), a fun and fresh photo that I took and I saved them to my computer.

Then I went to PicMonkey which I use for putting text and cute little buttons on photos. Select create a collage and then go over to the left hand side. See that little button FB Cover. How easy is that. How did I not know about this. Crazy.

Ok so you’ve selected that and now you’re going to choose how many tiles you want and that’s up to you! You might want to focus on just a few photos or have a real variety. Just go for it. Up the top of the page you select open for uploading photos and they will appear to the left of the page and you just click and slide over. And if you want to shuffle them around just move them around between the squares.

You can make the white borders smaller by selecting spacing at the top of the left hand column and then save it (up the top of the page). Now if you want to put some text like your blog name or a little byline then you just click edit (it’s just along from Save at the top of the page) and add some text. Save your work to your computer and now you want to head to Facebook. When you click or hover over your timeline it will come up with the little button to Change Cover. So we’re going to click it and upload the collage you’ve just created and saved. Now you are done and can enjoy your new timeline cover.

And that my friends is how I changed my facebook timeline cover yesterday and I love it. It sums up who I am and when people come to my page for the first time they get some fresh photos and can see what I’m all about out. So go forth and make timeline covers………….even if you have a family business go and personalise it and get creative. It’s lots of fun.