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Backgrounds

A background should enhance your site not overpower it – don’t let it detract from the content.

• don’t use brightly coloured backgrounds that make it difficult to read your text
• remember that sound files in the background will impact on the loading time of your site as they are often big in size
• if you use a sound file in the background of your page give the user the option to turn it off
• some browsers don’t recognise background images in tables and cells so don’t use this method
• don’t use large images as backgrounds to your pages – get your message across with another technique

Remember to check out the World's Worst Website which was a deliberately bad website designed to graphically demonstrate the most common mistakes made by new Web Page designers.

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Jakob Nielson
Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant. He writes a fortnightly newsletter, Alertbox, on web design matters and has published several books on the subject of web design.

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The World's Worst Website
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