Monthly Archive for September, 2010

So you want to display background images on your website?.. Coincidence – me too! Firstly why not pause for a second and refresh this web page for a while and appreciate the lovely photography :P

Mac OSX, Safari 5.0 screenshot

If you’ve tried background images (unsuccessfully) in the past, no doubt you’ve come unstuck with a few of the same sorts of dilemmas as I have: the first culprit being content vs. image legibility, and the second being each image’s responsiveness to the viewport (will the image tile or stretch?; in which case you have to start thinking about tessellation accuracy and file size etc.).