Need some good background sites for web desining....

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by jhonnydepp, Jul 23, 2010.

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    hi guys i need some good sites where i can pick good backgrounds for web designing so please help me here.
     
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    Try a gradient and tile it horizontally. Another choice for backgrounds is to take an image (glowing fractals for example) and fade it out using a soft brush in photoshop to make it go behind the main element or the top corner (assuming a centered design). You could also horizontally tile stripes. All of these, fading into a background will help reduce bandwidth. Tiling an image as a background is generally a bad idea, as it makes it look as if your site was made by a 3 year old trying to learn HTML.
     
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    That's a ridiculous comment, there are a large number of websites that use tiled backgrounds very effectively, for example - http://www.subcircle.co.uk/.

    I'd say using fractal gradients is far more amateur than a nicely tiled background. It is of course my own preference to use very subtle backgrounds, often with no texture or pattern at all.
     
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