Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Backgrounds

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/tilings/tilings.htm

Today I saw this website which told me about tiling backgrounds, I made a few on photoshop and decided that I was terrible at backgrounds, here are the two I made


I have decided that I am terrible with backgrounds, which is why I did some research.
I looked at these websites to get some ideas as well as inspiration
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/backgrounds-in-web-design-examples-and-best-practices-2/
http://www.noupe.com/design/website-backgrounds-70-impressive-trends-how-tos-best-practices.html

and then I decided I would look at the Apple website, to see what professionals would do with layouts.
http://www.apple.com/mac/

I was very surprised. It is very plain, very white. But Apple products always tend to be so. So what should a history professor's website look like? Parchment didnt seem very original...quills, pens littering the background is an idea.
I really liked this website background, so I may go with something like this, using some of my father's photos
http://www.viget.com/inspire/

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