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Background Patterns. Best Places to Find Seamless Background Patterns. Web Designers are always in need of background patterns. In an effort to reduce your time searching the internet, we’ve put together a list of the best sites where you can find seamless patterns. Pattern Head WebTreats Brusheezy Patterns Squidfingers ava7 Patterns Kaliber10000 Pattern 8 deviantART Patterns DinPattern Noqta Patterns About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience.

Related Posts shares 200+ Seamless Patterns Perfect for Website Backgrounds We’re always on the lookout for great freebies to share with our readers, and today we’ve got some seamless patterns. Read More 100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds Seamless patterns are a great way to add interest and detail to a web design background. 100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds. 1026 shares 200+ Seamless Patterns Perfect for Website Backgrounds We’re always on the lookout for great freebies to share with our readers, and today we’ve got some seamless patterns. Seamless patterns are a great way to add a lot of detail to a design and fill up a big area, such as a background.

Here are over 200 patterns that are perfect for creating… Read More 46 shares Best Places to Find Seamless Background Patterns Web Designers are always in need of background patterns. 30 Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design. A trend in web design that has been popular for a while, and still seems to be gaining momentum, is the use of big background images. It’s an easy and effective way to add lots of interest to a design and set the overall tone with one photo or illustration. However, doing this is a bold move and you run the risk of creating a web site that has too much going on. So it’s important to find a balance between the background and other elements of the design. To give you some inspiration, here are 30 examples of web sites that use this technique effectively. Stephan Siegrist Noah Stokes – Es Bueno Grand Canyon Skywalk Yes I am Precious Because Studio Sur La Piste – Carlos Immersive Garden Sayonara Mavic Derek Welsh Airwalk Piero Martinello Studio Tilt Giles Revell Chicago L-Shirts SabotagePKG Mike Stocker Photography Coal Headwear Twelve Restaurant Go To China Festival Mundo Paul Smith Merus Medis Bar The Squad Summer Love Free Agent Depot 160over90 Turkish Cosmetics Source: Site InspireThe Best DesignsCSS Mania 412 shares.

30 Awesome Textures for Creating Subtle Grunge Designs. 67 shares Adding Depth with Pixel Perfect Line Work A pixel is a single point in a raster image. Computer displays are capable of showing millions of these at a time. So how can one lone pixel have an impact on a web design? It probably can’t. However, if you extend that pixel in one direction, it becomes a line, and in the hands… Read More 38 shares Subtle Details: Taking Web Designs to Another Level Have you ever looked at a web site and immediately been impressed with it’s design? 25 Excellent Examples of Using Texture in Web Design. 301 shares Spring Up your Designs with Some Free Flower Textures Textures are a good way to add personality, depth and interest to a design.

But the key to using textures is to not over do it. In other words, keep it subtle. To celebrate textures and spring, which is just around the corner, we decided to gather some free flower textures for you to use… Read More 285 shares New Free Textures for your Delight Having good resources is important to every single designer, and that is why we like to keep our readers filled with options when it comes to fonts, patterns and textures. 50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs. 444 shares Top Gadgets for Designers Designers are very creative people and always strive for unique experiences, services and products that deliver high quality and remarkable experience. There are dozens of gadgets available in the world but only the best ones end up on the desks or pockets of creatives. I have collected some top-notch gadgets that are delivering extreme quality,… Read More 486 shares Apple Dictates the World’s Visual Design Every time Apple redesigns their software, specifically iOS, the entire design industry landscape changes.

40 Excellent Examples of Texture in Web Design. 303 shares 11 Inspiring Examples of Textures and Patterns in Web Design Here at WDL we like to browse the web to find inspiring websites to show our readers. Every week we like to gather lists based on styles, trends and nice elements we believe you will like it. Elements like textures and patterns, which have been around for a while and are still being used to… Read More 432 shares Colorful Logos for Your Inspiration We’ve rounded up some examples of logo designs that make excellent use of color.

50 Inspiring Examples of Texture in Web Design. 390 shares 11 Inspiring Examples of Textures and Patterns in Web Design Here at WDL we like to browse the web to find inspiring websites to show our readers. Every week we like to gather lists based on styles, trends and nice elements we believe you will like it. Elements like textures and patterns, which have been around for a while and are still being used to… Read More 449 shares Colorful Logos for Your Inspiration We’ve rounded up some examples of logo designs that make excellent use of color. 80+ Fresh New Textures for Creating Web Site Backgrounds. As you’ve probably figured out, I love designing with texture. I also love sharing textures here on WDL. When done properly, a texture used as a background can add depth and set the over all mood for a web design. Here are over 80 textures that have all been released in just the past couple of months and can be very useful for making backgrounds.

These are all beautiful as they are, but for truly unique results, I encourage you to use these as foundations for your own creations. painted textures vol. 12 (12 textures) Vintage IV Texture Pack (9 textures) Two vintage textures (2 textures) A Little Dirty (8 textures) 8 new paper textures (8 textures) Nebulae Grunge (10 textures) Grungy Dirty Wood (20 textures) Light Grunge (5 textures) Concrete (5 textures) About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 294 shares Spring Up your Designs with Some Free Flower Textures Read More 285 shares New Free Textures for your Delight. Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices - Smashing Magazine.

Advertisement Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling. Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are enormous. One of the major changes you will notice is the background. Today, backgrounds are one of the core features that determine how visually interesting a website is.

The background holds the theme of the website, and there are a vast amount of possibilities when designing a website background. You may also be interested in the following related posts: The Basic Background Structures Before talking about how to design a good background, we need to go over basic background set ups. Body Background The body background is the most “distant” background. Content Background The other level of the structure is the content background. Option 1: Content and Body Background Layered The first structure is multiple layers of backgrounds. This is one of many styles that use a layered approach. 63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials - Noupe Design Blog. Apr 14 2008 Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.

In this post you will see how web designers had carefully created background images to influence how the websites is visually distinct but considerate of their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content. We have hand-picked background image resources and tutorials one can use to create amazing background images for the next website design. You might enjoy reading these posts: Stunning Examples and Trends Let’s take a look at some great website designs that are very well engaged to the background images 1) Viget/Extend 2) Jazz Clubs 3) Viget/Inspire 4) Straw Poll Now 5) Hebatec 6) Legendary Aircraft Plain and Simple 7) Lukasz Tyrala 8 ) Subdued 9) Singularity Concepts 10) Eddidit 11) Not Your Average Joe 12) Cubeclub Chemnitz.