Technical reasons for not having large background images in websites
- by kees-kist
Most websites tend to have either a solid color as background, or a small image that is repeated. Why aren't more websites using a large image (such as a photo) as background? I can think of the following reasons:
1) Problems with different screen resolutions. Too small and gaps start to appear on the left and/or right side for higher resolutions, too big and lower resolutions only show part of the image.
2) Bandwidth. Although this is unlikely to be a problem for most websites.
Are there any other reasons why such backgrounds are not being used more often?