Facebook Timeline Pixel Mystery



jerry-digital-strategist

There must be some headache with the new Facebook Timeline pixel widths out there.

March 30th, 2012 is the date and it’s coming up fast!

Some page owners have already begun implementing, but making it look good requires some tweaking.

SkandNet Media (Download the PDF here) made this handy infograpic:

However, beware that these Facebook Timeline pixel measures might be off. Things happen when the image within Facebook as you upload them.

If we look at the recommendation from Vectorash.ro, you can see that the profile picture have a different size.

And the difference is quite noticeable.

Well, I’m sure we’ll see some novel creativity with the cover photo, but is it just me or isn’t this a bit like blinking objects in web design?

Hopefully we’ll get to see some sleek designs as well in the near future…


8 comments
rajerthat
rajerthat

You might be attracting a whole new fan base of Tupac lovers. 

Robin Rutberg Goncalves
Robin Rutberg Goncalves

Interesting post and an awesome comment content, including factual information completing the post and a Tupac reference. Checked all my boxes.

SkandNet Media AB
SkandNet Media AB

Hi, SkandNet here. We got all sizes from different Facebook sources. Regarding the issues here, we checked Facebook´s FAQ again. Hope that helps! Direct copy from Facebook´s FAQ: https://www.facebook.com/help?faq=125379114252045 Cover photos are 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall. If you upload an image that's smaller than these dimensions, it will get stretched to this larger size. The image you upload must be at least 399 pixels wide. https://www.facebook.com/help?page=336062209769713 Page profile pictures are square and, depending on the size of someone's screen, display at 125x125 or 150x150 pixels. The photo you upload must be at least 180x180 pixels. We recommend uploading a square image of your brand's logo. Rectangular images will be cropped to fit a square. Page profile pictures display next to your Page's name around the site, so yours should stand on its own to represent your Page. You can also be creative with how your profile picture and cover photo go together. On your Page's cover, the profile picture displays 23 pixels from the left side and 239 pixels from the top of your cover photo.

Doktor Spinn
Doktor Spinn

Thank you so much for this guys, I really appreciate that you're listening and that you took the time to contribute with these insights. Big up!

Jesper Åström
Jesper Åström

The problem with giving designers too much power is that they give you hell as a developer by adding an odd pixel here and there... And then there is the problem of the developer getting back at the designer by making things appear differently than they did in the UI design psds... in the middle there is the education co-ordinator, working on the tutorial end of the scheme, not making any sense at all, as she or he is preoccupied with trying to decipher the internal miscommunication of sorts... as Tupac puts it "screaming thug til I die before I pass out..."

Doktor Spinn
Doktor Spinn

Oh, a Tupac reference, my friend. Loving it.

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