20 Attractive Websites That Make Background Patterns Work
When you mention patterned/tiled backgrounds, people immediately think of horrid MySpace pages and web designs circa-1990’s. It is therefore a worthy achievement when an artist is able to use this technique to make a website look stunning and attractive. An effective background design pattern can leave a memorable and positive feeling on the people who view these works of art.
by Ben Ostrowsky
Here I’ve compiled 20 beautiful and artistic websites that use tiled patterns to set their webpage apart from the ordinary.
1) Enlighten Designs
2) DNA
3) Sideshow
4) We Do The Web
5) Impressive Work
6) Hotel Belwether
7) David Loop
8) Olly Hite
9) OnTrack
10) Elitist Snob
11) Imagined Creative
12) THE SIDES
13) Tanya Merone
14) kesone.de
15) Jen Gordon
16) Viget Labs
17) variable.nz
18) Robert Beerworth Blog Australia
19) MAKAO
20) Saint Augustine Bed and Breakfast
These are all designs I feel have truly achieved a unique look by using a background pattern instead of going the safe route with a solid color.
Do you have any other websites to add to the list? Did I miss a website that belongs here? Be sure to leave the links on your comments.
24 Comments
An Jay
February 13th, 2008
Great article.
Josiah
March 10th, 2008
One of my favorites will always be 24-7 Media.
http://www.24-7media.de/classic/
Such hotness.
Carla
March 19th, 2008
Some excellent examples here. I may even lose my fear of patterned backgrounds now!
Alexander Hahn
April 3rd, 2008
nice! but it`s keasone, not kesone (-;
Jacob Gube
April 3rd, 2008
Alexander,
I sincerely apologize for the spelling mistake and I’ll correct it ASAP. You know how it goes when you work late at night :).
Alexander Hahn
April 23rd, 2008
oh yes! it’s 3.18 am now(-;
Sunlust Designs
August 14th, 2008
That’s a nice list, hope that it’ll inspire me to redesign my website finally.
I came across enlighten designs before, one of designers there made a tutorial that I used for my first website ;-)
manikandan
August 29th, 2008
i want an attractive template for Natural and ayurveda web site….. plsss help me sooooooon….
cayo
February 16th, 2009
hi everyone, i need some ideas, how to make an attractive web site for summer beac bar plz help me sooooooooooooooon………!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leslie
February 19th, 2009
I love when I stumble a across creative sites like this by chance. Thanks…just what I needed to start my day!
Dom
May 7th, 2009
Simple seems to work best, love the Olly Hite site.
Ben Stokes
December 30th, 2009
I agree with Dom – keep it simple, not to keen on the overpowering backgrounds. But I guess sometimes we have to do what the client wants.
Muzika
February 9th, 2010
I came across enlighten designs before, one of designers there made a tutorial that I used for my first website ;-)
nick
June 27th, 2010
nice article, love ‘The Sides’ website.
Vin
July 20th, 2010
http://derricophotography.com uses a nice background
don
August 30th, 2010
nice article
The Fount
October 21st, 2010
Backgrounds can work well when they are integrated into the actual design of the website like DNA, The Sides and Jen Gordon.
Irfan Suleman
October 30th, 2010
Some of them are really good…
nivan
December 14th, 2010
hey nice work.I am designing an education website with piyush, could you help me design some backgrounds.
Loyden
February 8th, 2011
One of my absolute favorites is Plentywish ( http://www.plentywish.com )
xshiva
March 4th, 2011
Nice but I want some thing better.
gabriela
April 12th, 2011
They look really nice, but seems like they look very alike one from another…
Techpraveen
September 18th, 2011
My custom login page looks cool with attractive background pattern ;)
Humayun Khalid
October 11th, 2011
fantastic ………..
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