Sep 8

40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques

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 carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.

Illustrative & Sketchy Backgrounds

Camellie

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ScaryGirl

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CreativeJoomlaDesign

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Deanoakley

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Fritz-quadrata

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HugsForMonsters

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Hutchhouse

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CarrerasConFuturo

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Chucku

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Photoshoped Backgrounds

Littlebigplanetoid

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Gruny

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Cpeople

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Dreamerlines

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Matt Mullenweg

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Koodoz

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Lebloe

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Using Textures and Brushes

Beakable

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Ftdesigner

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Loukotka

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Ryanmcmaster

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Brownblogfilms

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Snopp

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Subvert

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Jameslaicreative

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MarkupAndStyle

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Repeating Pattern

ThingsThatAreBrown

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Soyuzno

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Go on Web

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Simple and Elegant

Envato

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Elliotjaystocks

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Multiple Backgrounds

Mergeweb

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StoryPixel

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Kevinlucius

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Carbonica

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Odosketch

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  1. Gennice 8 September 2009

    Amazing collection! These truly inspired me for redesigning my blog soon.

    Thanks!

    • danielthepoet 9 September 2009

      Agreed. Seriously just got my creative juices flowing.

  2. Alexandre Broggio ( Brasil ) 8 September 2009

    thanks for the collection ^_^

  3. Great collection, just retweeted it. Very inspiring indeed.

  4. Greg 8 September 2009

    Umm the image linked to and listed as Duirwaigh is showing the design from Matt Mullenweg’s ma.tt site

    • Noupe 8 September 2009

      Thanks for the heads up. Just fixed the link.

  5. Nathan 8 September 2009

    Awesomely inspirational collection ;-)

    Retweeted.

  6. Gabriella Azurra Sky 8 September 2009

    This is truly a great collection. Truly inspired :)

  7. Gabriella Azurra Sky 8 September 2009

    This is truly a great collection. Truly inspired :)

  8. BlogLuomLat 8 September 2009

    I like Camellie because it very cool :D

    I’m from Vietnam

  9. Thomas 8 September 2009

    These are some really awesome designs!

  10. courts_metrages 8 September 2009

    nice list ! thx :)

  11. Claireatwaves 8 September 2009

    Some of these are gorgeous!

  12. carl smart 9 September 2009

    great list, I love some of these designs.

  13. e11world 9 September 2009

    This will really help me design my up-coming blog. Thanks for the wonderful list.

  14. Jhay 9 September 2009

    Cool. Great! Thanks.

  15. Thomas 9 September 2009

    Really nice selection, I discover lots of them !

  16. Ivan Miši? 9 September 2009

    THX for the collection :-)

  17. Website Designers Stoke 9 September 2009

    Great list, thanks.

  18. madz 9 September 2009

    Errr, I can’t choose one, because I like simple blog designs, something that suits my personality.

  19. Ahmed 9 September 2009

    i love the Gruny its also in free wordpress theme u can search it

  20. PelFusion 9 September 2009

    creative and inspiring…

  21. Alex Yang 10 September 2009

    great list ;) thank you!

  22. muhammadiq 10 September 2009

    simply i love this post ! thanks

  23. Kat 10 September 2009

    Some friends of mine made the Scarygirl site, great to see it in the list ;)

    You can read an interview I did with them on Vectortuts+

    http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/interviews/interview-with-nathan-jurevicius-touch-my-pixel-and-renmotion/

  24. desgaus 10 September 2009

    love the post! very inspiring…thanks!

  25. John Moray 10 September 2009

    Such a great post. Thanks for sharing :)

  26. wien 10 September 2009

    i like GRUNY

  27. AtiKuSDesign 10 September 2009

    The last design I worked on had an interesting background which, at first was a tough one to code, but now I have it working and can use that technique from now on.

    Great list of inspiration, thanks!

  28. Bahy M. Ali 11 September 2009

    Thinkgeek.com also uses an awesome technique in using multiple backgrounds, it took me a while to figure how they did it, but it turned to be as simple as layers!.. that is a really inspiring post, thank you =)

  29. laura 11 September 2009

    Interesting backgrounds; wonder how long they take to load and how they are on mobile.

  30. john 12 September 2009

    thx for ur collection

  31. tutorialzine 13 September 2009

    Those are some amazing designs. Thanks for the post!

  32. Scripts Directory 14 September 2009

    Wow! you’ve a very nice list of creative designs. Keep on posting such useful things and let the creative juices flow.

  33. Interface 14 September 2009

    Great designs! I particularly like ScaryGirl and Camellie!

  34. steppinout 14 September 2009

    Awesome collections

  35. MetacomCreative 15 September 2009

    A lot of cool sites here! Background techniques are always great to see. Almost makes me want to re-do my current one, haha.

  36. Shanna from Roger West 17 September 2009

    Great collection! What was your criteria for choosing these sites?

  37. John | English Wilderness 19 September 2009

    A fantastic collection. Hopefully I can find inspiration to liven up my webpages.

  38. Alexandros 19 September 2009

    Utterly amazing collection!
    Thanks for sharing!!!

  39. m* 19 September 2009

    Great collection

  40. ghprod 6 October 2009

    Really amazing collection!

    they really outstanding of designed!

  41. Some really creative designs here – thanks for the post.

  42. sab 5 November 2009

    Thanks for the information. It will be useful for many.

  43. swets 20 November 2009

    Thanks for the information. It will be useful for many.

  44. Margo 20 November 2009

    very inspiring…thanks! ;)

  45. Website Templates 1 January 2010

    It is a nice collection and all designs are of the same capacity.Any one can get more better design by using search engine.

  46. Suunnittelua 21 January 2010

    Nice list. Thanks!

  47. Telugu Cinema 24 February 2010

    Your free wallpaper are all nice, simple yet elegant and very creative. keep up the good work.. You make people happy with your nice works..

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