This web site is about web site backgrounds. It will teach you how to create a good looking professional background for your web page. This page will give you good and bad ideas for your web site backgrounds. It will teach you to use colors so you can have a colored background and still read the text.

Design tip to create a good background for your web site.

• To create a good background it should not make the text hard to read.
• The color of the background should not compete with the content of the page for the users attention.
• Convert the image to a light colored watermark type, select colors which will contrast with the background image.

Design Tips of what not to do for good backgrounds.

• To ensure that the background does not overpower overlaying text.
• Do not use to small of text on your page.
• Do not use to many background images.

Two examples of good background design.

• http://www.wpdfd.com/
• http://www.brown.edu/

Two examples of bad background design.

• http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
• http://www.redbloodclub.net/

For Additional information on good background design.

• http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/main.htm
• http://www.goodpractices.com/
• http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_backgrounds.asp

Take my Quiz about background design to see what you have learned from my web site.

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