Learn Html with Kbdk: Background
Background:
- When deciding whether you want to use a plain color or an image you should consider the fact that very few of the web's 100 most visited sites use background images.
- Because it slows down the image loading time of the website affecting the websites performance.
- The few pages that actually do use images use very discrete and fast loading images with image formats like for the purpose.
- When picking the desired color - whether it be plain or an image - you should also consider the fact that some colors work with almost any other color - while there are colors that only work with a limited number of contrasts.
If you use green on a red background, it will look different than if you use the same green on a blue
background. Without digging into deep theories about colors, we will make a note on the fact that white,gray and black colors tend to be balanced against other colors. That is, white, gray and black work with any of the colors in the rainbow.
This is probably the reason that white, black and gray are the most widely used background colors found on the net.