Striped Backgrounds

Just a FYI for all of you web designers out there about pretty striped backgrounds.

I’m actually unsure if this is a LCD screen thing, or all of them in general. I actually don’t remember it from my old CRT screen, but let’s face it, who has a CRT these days? (OK, I’ll admit it I have one…)

Some websites like having a striped background, with an image like the following.

It does look pretty neat, and when it’s full-paged background it can give a webpage an interesting look.

The trouble is, scrolling. On screens like mine images like that do not work well when scrolling. The background does this weird flickering thing when scrolling along, and it does mean the website looks less cool, and more cheap.

I’d seriously advise you skip the tiny little stripes in background images. Try larger ones, they can look pretty good as well. Or, you know, a solid colour doesn’t hurt either.