Topic of the day
Thursday, 24 July 1997
Today's topic of the day is Web-page backgrounds. I have located a number of sites containing background archives for use in Web pages. They are listed in rough order of how useful I've found them. If you use any of the backgrounds from these sites in your own home page, please be sure to follow the site instructions regarding copyright, crediting, etc.
SITE OF THE DAY
This site has a wide range of background textures, including some really wigged-out ones. Check out the abnormal section for some truly wacky textures at http://www.meat.com/textures/aindex.html.
OTHER BACKGROUND SITES
This is the background page of Realm Graphics - they have other graphics resources as well. As for backgrounds, they have around 400 sorted by texture type (marble, stone, paper etc). Excellent.
http://www.ender-design.com/rg/backidx.html
This is a professional computer artist's home page, and as you can imagine, it's very graphics-intensive. If you've got a fast connection or plenty of time, it's worth a visit. The link points to his free backgrounds, but have a look around.
http://www.andyart.com/bg_top.htm
A nice collection of backgrounds with the useful feature of allowing you to download the whole set as one ZIP file.
http://www.triser.com.au/bgrnd.htm
Good collection (100+) of backgrounds on what appears to be a very FAST server.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/bgs.html
Quality free collection with the useful feature of being sorted by colour.
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1679/backgrounds.html
About 60 free backgrounds designed by the author, plus loads of other free graphics.
http://www.syruss.com/backs/backs1.html
Loads of backgrounds which can be browsed by name or by thumbnail.
http://www.netcreations.com/patternland/