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Controlling Web Page Backgrounds With CSS
By xaby | October 2, 2007
For many years, web sites all over the world generously offered free tiled background patterns to budding young web designers as a way of “enhancing” their web pages. Derided by many designers in the field as tacky, these backgrounds were generally used sparingly, if at all, by professional designers, especially where download speed was of major concern—and in those heady days of 14.4kbps modems, download speed was always of major concern.
How times have changed in the past ten or so years! With the advent of CSS and the increased proliferation of broadband, backgrounds have become an integral part of web design and development. Backgrounds are no longer simple repeated patterns or, in more abstract cases, extremely large photographs. Nowadays, they form the basis of many a well-designed site. From CSS rollovers and “Faux Column” layouts, to form styling and fluid layouts, backgrounds have become an integral part of the developer’s toolkit.
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