Noupe Editorial Team April 14th, 2008

63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials

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.

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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


13) Otramancha


14) Peminoz


15) Time For Cake


16) Dale Harris


17) Kutz Town


18) BootbB


19) Springtime


20) Level Opacity


21) Eleven3


22) Swell Guys


23) Point Of E


24) Abduzeedo


25) Avalonstar


26) Pangaea Festival


27) Team Green Online


28) Deadmetropolis


29) Juxt Interactive


30) Introzo


31) Scoutingforgirls


32) David Hellmann


Where can you find background images?

Below you will find regularly updated online libraries and resources featuring hundreds of textures, patterns, brushes and images. They’ll come in handy when creating Photoshop brushes or your own background images.



Further Resources for Background textures and patterns

How to Control element backgrounds with CSS


Creating Your Own Backgrounds Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

Background images Generators

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82 comments

  1. Awesome list! I think Juxt has had that same look for a couple of years now – it’s amazing how some designs can really stand the test of time.

  2. @Gelay, @Sarah, @Ryan, Gunner Si
    I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for stopping by.

    Thanks @Matt, Juxt is one of my favorites.

    @David, You’re welcome. I really like your design.

    @James, silverbackapp.com is great too. I am not sure how we missed that ;)

    @Fubiz, i am glad you liked this post.

    @Binny V A, thanks for the stumble :)

    @Andrew Cafourek, Yea Vimeo has an nice background.

  3. Some of these backgrounds are really cool, special Level Opacity one. I appreciate the way you explain the CSS coding to add them as well.

  4. this is awesome. I’m thinking about redesigning my site some time soon. I’ve boomarked this article for future references. Thank you very much!

  5. Awesome list! I think Juxt has had that same look for a couple of years now – it’s amazing how some designs can really stand the test of time.

  6. Ha-ha!! I Was just browsing around, wondering if an online photography course was of some interest for me, and came across of this – an interesting read, thankx!

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  8. When laying in a background graphic, you need to consider all of the different monitor sizes. background graphics repeat themselves and could look weird on a wide monitor if
    you selected a background size to fit one of the older, smaller monitors.

  9. Interesting post! I was wondering, as I usually read most of the entries here is there any way I can get updates sent to my inbox?

  10. I loveeeee the texture background used in some of these!
    Although some of them when I clicked onto the website, it’s changed :(

    Anyway, still – very inspiring!!!

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  14. Nice Collection. Specially I like the BootbB website background image. And i am going to use some of the ideas from here.

  15. Wow. Really inspiring. Now I know where to go during my designer’s block moments. Awesome designs, thanks for sharing this! :)

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