Cool And Very Creative Backgrounds in Web Design – Best Examples and Practices
The body background in web design is one of the most important part of the overall theme of the web site. Though it is the most distant of all the design aspect, it serves as the body of the entire design since it covers most of the areas of the website or template. These background designs can be any graphical content or images.
The backgrounds that are used in modern web design can be high-res images, textures and patterns, painted background or grungy types, dirt, paper, leather and many others – these are used to bring out the look and feel of the web design. Unlike the basic one-color background or gradient-type backgrounds, these creative background textures could attract more eyes if used effectively and harmoniously with the other contents of the web design.
Below are some of the most popular background designs that are used in modern web design.
Paper or Cardboard
This background style is perfect for grunge-type web designs or web designs which includes paper or carton images that serves as content background for main content images and texts.
Patterns and Tiles
Patterned backgrounds were used for a very long time in web design and still gives a very pleasing and elegant style to modern web designs.
Stones and Concrete
This type is mostly used in grungy web design where it could bring out a solid and firm feel to a website.
Leather and Fabric
This background sometimes gives a clean and very sleek look in a web design.
Wood Texture
Wooden-type is a very popular kind background used in many web designs – it can be used in personal or business-type website designs. We have collected some of the eye-catching websites with a wooden theme or background design in our previous post.
Lung Kong Physical Culture Club
Illustrated Background
Illustrated body backgrounds can be vector or hand-drawn images which gives a very unique style in web design.
Painted, Swirls
These backgrounds shows the creativity of a web design artist which shows effective display of brushes and and unique painted swirls as the main web design background.
Grungy and Dirt
Mostly used in personal and portfolio web sites however it can be used to any type of web design to give a very unique identity.
Here are other website designs with cool and very creative background. If you have other websites with a creative background then feel free to leave a comment. Cheers!
April 2nd, 2010
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April 9th, 2010
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April 17th, 2010
Hey Bono,
thanks for presenting my website.
Greetz from Germany,
Tim
September 26th, 2010
These are really nice and unique backgrounds. From this list I much like the Matt Mullenweg site. It is really attractive and unique.
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