Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends, How To’s & Best Practices
- By Editorial
- Posted in DESIGN, Graphics
- 82 comments
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.
We have hand-picked different background image trends and tutorials you can use to create an amazing background images for your upcoming website design.
You might enjoy reading these posts:
How to Get the Following 14 Backgrounds?
1. Vigit Inspire Background
How To » How To: Make the Viget Inspire Background
How To » Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop
2. Wefunction Background
How To » Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!
3. SpoutCreative
How To » Realistic Stone Texture
4. Sony Bokeh Effect
How To » Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop
5. Goodbytes light Effect
How To » Abduzeedo Job Board banner in Fireworks
How To » Crazy Cool Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop
6. Hereslifeafrica Torn Paper Background
How To » Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect in Photoshop
7. Amuki Old Paper Background
How To » Creating Old Paper With Custom Brushes
8. Studio7designs Polar Lights Effect Background
How To » Polar Lights Effect
9. AdaptD Retro Rainbow Color Background
How To » Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
10. Okb’s Beams of light Background
How To » Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
How To » Create Intense Light Streaks
11. Jared Campbell’s Vintage Background
How To » Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design
12. Bart-Jan Verhoef’s Worn out Background
How To » Make it Worn
13. Boompa’s super colorul background
How To » Painted Photo Manipulation
14. Starbuckscoffeeathome’s Hand Written background
How To » Pencil It In
Creating your own Background
- Create a magical rainbow color flame in Photoshop
“One of the things I’ve seen around quite a bit lately is a transparent rainbow gradient effect on a dark background. It seems to me that flashy transparent gradients are in these days. They make me think about magic. Today I’ll show you how you can create a magical rainbow color flame.”
- Simple organic shapes the Illustrator way
- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator
- Large Website Backgrounds Do’s and Don’ts
- How to: CSS Large Background
- How to Create an Ice-cold Poster with 3D Text
- How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch
- How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
- Trendy Geometric Lines
Stunning Website Backgrounds
Instead of doing your own testing, below are some useful and time saving tools to help you play with web typography and make your own choices by giving you a real-time preview of many available CSS font properties.
- DeftCreative
- GreenglobeIdeas
- Friends of 42
- Istokpavlovic
- Matt Dempsey
- DesignDisease
- WorkAtPlay
- Nine Lion Design
- Mdxinteractive
- Retinart
- Nom Milk today
- Prowseed
- AgamiCreative
- Tnvacation
- Ronnypries
- Digitalmash
- BlkMtnStudio
- StudioRacket
- OakesDesign
- OldLoft
- ArtMetal
- 45Royale
- R0man
- Drvo u mom dvoristu
- Mindnever
- OrganicSupermarket
- HutchHouse
- Dundeeliving 404 Page
- Tohavit
- Edit Studios
- DawgHouseDesignStudio
matthew duerksen, 08 February 2009
Great lineup! A lot of different things going on!
Thank you!
Antonio Lupetti, 08 February 2009
Great list!
Simon [webdemar], 08 February 2009
Thanks for the great list!
Hercules, 08 February 2009
Amazing and useful list, great work.
Joffrey, 08 February 2009
Wow, stunning!
Gennice, 08 February 2009
Excellent list! Thanks so much for sharing such a big and useful list of tuts. Needed this for redesign on my blog.
joyoge designers' bookmark, 08 February 2009
great list thanks..
Vladimir, 08 February 2009
Great list!
demogar, 08 February 2009
Great list, no doubt!
Brayza, 08 February 2009
Awesome article, but why is it that all the really cool backgrounds and colours etc are only used on “portfolio/blog” websites?
RubineBoy, 10 February 2009
Other businesses tend to chicken out on expressive or very special designs. They are afraid of pushing the edge I think.
farah, 08 February 2009
cool!! i really love this! thanks hey~ (^-^)v
Brandon Cox, 08 February 2009
Wow! What a post – impressive, and almost intimidating. Gotta get to work on some backgrounds now!
kdsjfkj, 09 February 2009
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Kevin, 08 February 2009
Great post with lots of sites I haven’t seen before -very inspirational.
ravindra, 08 February 2009
superb job thank for list. look here 5000+ Color Gradients Set For Photoshop .
insicdesigns, 08 February 2009
nice list!
john, 08 February 2009
I thank you for the help it is really a very good article
Especially for beginners like me
Thanks!
Andris, 09 February 2009
good job. thanx for the great list.
Andrea, 09 February 2009
This is great! Thanks for the inspiration!
Aravind Jose T., 09 February 2009
I could well understand the amount of work done behind this.
You gone a step ahead and gave us some designs and then told us how to do that. Really Supreme.
I like that touch !
yugu - dzineblog.com, 09 February 2009
This is one Awesome list – three cheers
poin47, 09 February 2009
this is probably the best list of great tuts that I found for a long long time. great work!!
Frog, 09 February 2009
Nice list thx
Thomas, 09 February 2009
Great list Noura
suresh, 09 February 2009
Excellent. Very nice collection.
Thanks for sharing. forwarded to friends.
Paul Anthony, 09 February 2009
As usual – a brilliant roundup Noura. Great stuff.
Patternhead, 09 February 2009
Another great list, thanks for sharing.
JohnONolan, 09 February 2009
Amazing post, bookmarked this one for definite future use!
Manu, 09 February 2009
Great list
Thank you
DK, 09 February 2009
Wonderful Collection!
Thanks
DK
Richard S Davies, 09 February 2009
Just amazing, thanks!
Chris Spooner, 09 February 2009
Awesome post, great idea of combining real-world examples with online tutorials!
Doug Avery, 09 February 2009
We at Viget also wrote our own tutorial on making the backgound. You can read it here. Design Reviver did a great job with their tutorial, too, I’d recommend reading both.
Noupe, 09 February 2009
I am not sure how i missed this one, i have came across it before and found it very useful.
Just added it to the post now.
Thanks Doug :)
Aditya, 09 February 2009
Thanks a lot :)
dp, 09 February 2009
Wow, great list!
Jeromy, 09 February 2009
One Word Noupe…..
WOW!!!!
As always a list not likely to be beat!
Regards,
Jeromy
Jasper, 09 February 2009
Thanks, great list!
I’m definitely going to try some of these tutorials!
Nikhil Shahane, 09 February 2009
Epic post.. very very helpful. Thanks!
Eric Shafer, 09 February 2009
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-11/
CPG, 09 February 2009
Photoshop Open ! Go…
Drake, 09 February 2009
Awesome post, I wish someone would write a how to on the background for 365 Days of Astronomy. Anyone know where I could find one?
Mike Johnson, 09 February 2009
Awesome list! I’ve already checked out a few of the tutorials.
conrado, 09 February 2009
Thank you!
Whizkid, 09 February 2009
Awesome !!!
I m lovin it.
Ben Higham, 09 February 2009
Amazing list. Some very inspiring work in there.
myows, 09 February 2009
beautiful list – thanks for sharing,
very inspiring indeed !
zaiah, 09 February 2009
AWESOME!!! This is exactly what the doctor ordered. So many sites have wonderful examples of creative, innovative and modern work. But few of them show you have to create your own!!! Thanks and please keep them coming!
Abrishca Digital Media, 09 February 2009
What a massive list! Might take a while to get through, but plenty of inspiration to be gained. Thanks.
Gis, 09 February 2009
WooaOAooOAaa!! Crazy amount of inspiration!!
Thaaank you :D
aravind, 09 February 2009
Amazing post. :)
Jesse Korzan, 09 February 2009
Thanks from me and the crew at Work at Play for including our site on this great list.
Stacy Allen Hummel, 09 February 2009
Wow, I am honored to even be mentioned alongside some of these amazing designs. Great list and great post. Thanks!
not2comply, 09 February 2009
Cool..
thanx for the list…..
Keep up the good works.
Timothy, 10 February 2009
Really good post. Thanks
mr. tunes, 11 February 2009
quality publishing right here! thank you
eddie, 12 February 2009
I am always trying to make a awesome background as a site’s header
thank you for this post~
GoodBytes.be, 13 February 2009
Great list! And many thanks for including us as well, we really appreciate it.
GoodBytes
Multidesign, 14 February 2009
Impressive!
evan, 16 February 2009
wow! stunning! hehe its so big it made my fancy computer lag! haha
good work :)
saurabh shah, 19 February 2009
nice quality post … thnks for sharing
Amber Weinberg, 20 February 2009
Awesome resources!
blogsarticle, 20 February 2009
Impressive!
Ralph, 21 February 2009
There are many great Websides. Thank you for your hard work to colect this many websides. Ralph
Miles Tinsley, 22 February 2009
Wow. This is such a rich resource that gives an interesting snapshot of current web desgin trends. Inspiring stuff…
sean steezy, 03 March 2009
thank you. this is such a great site, glad i found it and RSS’d this stuff. thanks!
Ganesh, 04 March 2009
Superb, designs !! Thank you NOUPE !
Jamie Allsop, 30 March 2009
These are some really great examples of creative design here. I do really like Digitalmash, it has a simple layout and the part I like about it the most is the images in the middle, it is just different to what you normally see. I mean they are all great but that one just stuck out from the rest of them. This is a really useful resource for inspiration.
Business, 31 October 2009
I see a lot of sites where the text will be a light gray and the background is white – err! That’s very annoying and hard to read.
Devin Walker, 03 December 2009
Great list, I love transparency in web design.
Alan T, 08 December 2009
Great list – my site is so dull in comparison it’s very depressing
yashodhan deshmukh, 26 May 2010
its gud I like it as all the about guies
Harold Johnson, 14 July 2010
Great point, terrific website. Listen, did you guys read about Blizz looking to use Real ID on the online community? It seems they recognized that that is no way to win at wow, as they reversed their decision. Now we can all go back to playing wow without having to worry about compromised privacy. And they can go back to working on Starcraft. BooYAH!
Merrill Wilt, 07 November 2010
Will be blogengine superior to wp for some reason? Needs to be as it would be starting to be popluar of late.
Media Chandler, 13 January 2011
Thanks good looking stuff..
dp, 17 October 2011
Let me first start by saying I am def no expert! Every time I try and create a background like the above Tnvacation the background moves around when I change my screen resolution. For instance in the Tnvacation (if I create that) and I changed the screen resolution lower the background image would shrink towards the center of the screen. So you wouldn’t be able to see the phone, guy singing or the stuff at the top. It would be behind the DIV page. How does on correct that issue?
Thanks
dp, 17 October 2011
Well I figured out its just my body div getting larger and cover up more of my background. How do I stop that from happening?
Zaib Khan, 12 December 2011
wow i really like all the collection. Thanks for sharing
Dreamcatcher Studio, 26 December 2011
i love the how to section, great idea
Kuda, 11 April 2012
I must admit, I always vie drought liked the retro theme, actually … papyrus parchment. But all of these variations is extremely effective and beautiful.
Izrada sajta, 11 April 2012
Very impressive themes that are used in a very creative use of sites. The freedom of art is here to reveal the full effect. Thank you!