And, I'm remiss, as I haven't done our YouTube channel background properly (it's just the logo) and our Twitter one is a simple repeated logo! It's on the very long list of things to do.
However, we do try and make sure that our clients have a custom background for Twitter and YouTube that fit with their site design. Some are prepared to invest the small-ish cost of getting a designer to do this and some aren't. YouTube is tricky to do well if you don't have Photoshop skills!
Nonetheless, it's what we recommend. A consistent look across your own website and your social media profiles is obviously a good idea - just look at what major label artists do to see the consistency of their look! In fact, look into what they do all the time in social media and steal their best ideas!
This oldish post on Mashable has some good pointers and is worth checking out - although the dimensions listed for Twitter are now wrong for the new layout - check our post here (point 2) instead for that.
If you Google 'YouTube Background', you'll get loads of detailed info and endless videos that show you how to do it if you have the skills.
Obviously, if one of you in the band is a designer or if the people that designed your site can do the backgrounds, you're sorted.
However, if you are after an all-in-one solution, check out these people - Custom Page. We've used them several times for various backgrounds and they will be doing ours for Make It In Music when we get five minutes!
The quality is good and they're reasonably priced and they deal with the photoshop stuff that gives me a headache!
That said, they have lots of free backgrounds that you can use as well, and a really good tutorial on how to make your own here.
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