Noupe Editorial Team September 8th, 2009

40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques

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.

Illustrative & Sketchy Backgrounds

Camellie

ScaryGirl

CreativeJoomlaDesign

Deanoakley

Fritz-quadrata

HugsForMonsters

Chucku

Photoshoped Backgrounds

Dreamerlines

Matt Mullenweg

Koodoz

Lebloe

Using Textures and Brushes

Beakable

Loukotka

Ryanmcmaster

Snopp

Subvert

Jameslaicreative

Repeating Pattern

ThingsThatAreBrown

Soyuzno

Go on Web

Simple and Elegant

Envato

Elliotjaystocks

Multiple Backgrounds

StoryPixel

Kevinlucius

Carbonica

Odosketch

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61 comments

  1. The last design I worked on had an interesting background which, at first was a tough one to code, but now I have it working and can use that technique from now on.

    Great list of inspiration, thanks!

  2. Thinkgeek.com also uses an awesome technique in using multiple backgrounds, it took me a while to figure how they did it, but it turned to be as simple as layers!.. that is a really inspiring post, thank you =)

  3. Wow! you’ve a very nice list of creative designs. Keep on posting such useful things and let the creative juices flow.

  4. A lot of cool sites here! Background techniques are always great to see. Almost makes me want to re-do my current one, haha.

  5. It is a nice collection and all designs are of the same capacity.Any one can get more better design by using search engine.

  6. Your free wallpaper are all nice, simple yet elegant and very creative. keep up the good work.. You make people happy with your nice works..

  7. This is a very nice collection! It is always inspiring to see what other designers are creating. I really liked the BrownBlogFilms design.

  8. Thanks for the review.

    Another thing, loving your blog layout. I had a similar blog to yours before I sold it on a few months ago.

  9. Nice collection, would like to share mine as well, simple and quick solution I did for my portfolio, thanks for the post.

  10. nice and thank you very much… your list helped me in my assignment.. just bookmarked this in case i forgot.. =)

  11. I create custom designs for websites, interfaces and
    webapps based on your requirements & preferences. I’m
    experienced in print and identity design too

  12. What plugs are you currently using to avoid spam?I’ve got TONS of spam in the comments on my blog. Cant take care of it :/. Akismet fails generally.

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