Posts Tagged ‘backgrounds’

Add Custom Backgrounds to any WordPress Theme

First, my apologies for not writing for so long. There has been so much happening and so many cool things out there now.

We especially enjoy finding new features that anyone can implement. Even someone without any coding knowledge what-so-ever.

With the new releases of WordPress, it is now extremely easy to customize the background of your WordPress theme, for self hosted installations.

From your Admin Dashboard, click on the Appearance button on the left and then click Editor.

Locate the file called functions.php in the list on the right and click the file name.

In the editor window, scroll down to the bottom of the file just before the last “?>” and type in the following text:

add_custom_background();

Now click the save button at the bottom of the page.

If you now click on the Appearance button on the left again, you should now see a choice for Backgrounds appear in the list. If you click on this, you will be able to replace the current background with an image or any color you choose.

You can also control the way images repeat and their alignment.

So easy isn’t it?

10 Online Background Pattern Generators

With many web design projects, it is seemingly the items with the most subtle results that can require the most effort. This is certainly true with backgrounds.

You have probably seen some cool effects like stripes or other background patterns that seem to set off the design of a web page perfectly. Well now these professional, subtle looking effects can easily be implemented into your own pages with a minimal amount of effort thanks to the efforts of a few programmers.

The following is a list of online background pattern generators that will create a background pattern for you to download and use in your web design. We hope you find these useful.
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Online Background Pattern Generator

In another one of our projects, we had a design that required a white content area with the area behind it filled with a pattern. Unfortunately, the background pattern was something that the client was not happy with at all.

In the interest of time, they asked us if we could find something nice and fix the pattern. Even though this background pattern is a fairly small part of the website, it has a large visual impact on the site. Therefore, it was important that I spend some time finding several options for the client to review. As I carried out a frustrating, time consuming search for mediocre patterns, I ran across the Tiled Backgrounds Desginer website.

Within a few minutes I had three different homepages for review, each with a diiferent pattern and corresponding style. The tools is very easy to use and provides a tabbed interface for building your own background patterns. You have the option of specifying your colors, pattern images, scale, opacity, canvas and even the rotation of the pattern.

I highly recommend this tool for every Web Designers arsenal of tools.