Hello all
I am trying to implement a fixed background for a website like one over here. Searching around for it told me that I can use background: fixed or background-attachment properties for this.
My problem is the image which will be used as background. I am thinking about following issues:
Can somebody guide me on these points?
Regards Vikram
That is not a single background image. Its mostly a bgcolor, except for the side clouds. Using a single large image as a background will dramatically slow down your load time.
There's no specific guideline. You need to make the image as large as necessary to satisfy the requirements of the design. If you want someone with a maximized browser window on a 30-inch display to see a single unbroken non-repeating background image, then yes, you'll need quite a large image. It won't perform well.
The Twitter example is a wide but short image, set to repeat along its x-axis. It's wide at 2247 pixels, but perhaps unnecessarily so: it actually appears to be a fixed pattern that repeats horizontally four times within that 2247 pixel image. Nonetheless, you get the idea: make an image that blends gracefully into itself at its edges for seamless tiling, and/or blends into a fixed background color. Position and repeat it as needed, set the background-color of the page, and you're done.
