Web Site Tips for Webmasters

Backgrounds

Backgrounds are often an interesting study. It seems that when a person discovers they can place a picture or graphic as a background on their web site, they do it with gusto. Here are some thoughts on backgrounds:

• The background should be subtle--the idea of the background is to blend in with your site as a backdrop for text and other content. With some backgrounds, forget even trying to read the text, just look at the background and attempt to figure out what the designer is trying to say with pictures.



• Be sure your background is suitable for high resolution screens--web designers often use backgrounds with a left border. The width (side to side) of that graphic should be a minimum of 1300 pixels. If not, this is what happens on a high resolution screen. With the large screens available today, 800 x 600 resolution is not even considered an option. There are plenty of people who have their monitors set to 1280 x 1024 and higher resolution.