(Twentyten) Background image tiling ever a good design?
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Twentyten allows me to create a tiled background from any image. It’s very cool.
Where I’m unsure … is using a repeated/tiled image a good choice for a blog that I want people to take seriously? Or does it fall into the category of “geeky features that should only be used in jest,” like elaborate slide transitions in PowerPoint?
I admit to being design-challenged. I’d love to hear from the designers and artists in the community.
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In my opinion, your tiled image is very distracting (it’s hard to read the text when there is so much going on around it; it’s as if you are showing the world that if it can be done then it’s a good idea to do it. Just my opinion, but you asked, so I’d advise: don’t do it.
Then again:
My background image is tiled vertically with a horizontal gradient plus the words “Japanese Recipes” down the right side. I know some folk who find it too busy and colorful and unbalanced. That is me: guilty of being a geeky-feature person…Also keep in mind that on different monitors with different resolutions, different browsers, small screens (iPhones for example), etc: your background will look different to your readers.
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Your one bit of background image is an interesting picture. My opinion would be to make several headers: one or more including that picture. The headers will change as readers look at other pages if you select the random header option…
A gradient or tiled texture would be better to highlight your posts more professionally.
Again, that is just my opinion.
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A gradient or tiled texture would be better to highlight your posts more professionally.
Thanks – this is super helpful. Can you explain what you mean by “gradient or tiled texture”? This vocabulary is all new to me.
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By a gradient I mean a background color that goes from light to dark as the background on my blog. It could be a gradual change from one color to another.
If you want your background dark on top and light on the bottom, you’d make a long narrow strip (even only 1 pixel wide) which you’d have tile horizontally. Mine is a skinny strip that goes from white on the left to dark green on the right and it tiles vertically.
I made mine in Photoshop, but any sort of image editing program (or paint program) could be used. Here is one online (I’ve not tried it, but assume it would work fine:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/gradient/ ) -
You can make a textured background by taking a super close up of something with texture, like sand or wood or fabric or wrinkled paper. It could be a small square that repeats vertically and horizontally, or a long narrow image that repeats only one way, or a whole big image in the background.
Here are a whole bunch of images of texture:
http://www.google.com/search?q=texture+packs&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1371&bih=666&prmd=ivnsfd&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=1B9qTsjLBenQiAK4h823Dg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBsQ_AUoAQ -
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