{"id":2071,"date":"2010-03-09T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2010-03-09T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:35:34","slug":"website-background-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/website-background-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Website background ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2072\" title=\"oldloft\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/oldloft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/oldloft.jpg 450w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/oldloft-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2066\" target=\"_self\">my post<\/a> about how things were in web-design trends back in the mid-90&#8217;s, today you can practically do anything. In the hands of a good illustrator or image artist, websites can look pretty amazing these days without necessarily resorting to methods that might break accessibility standards.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the Australian website for Lowe Studio and went around searching for inspiration on backgrounds. I arrived on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/03\/31\/backgrounds-in-web-design-examples-and-best-practices-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful collection<\/a> of websites with fantastic background ideas. (<a href=\"http:\/\/oldloft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Loft<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/03\/31\/backgrounds-in-web-design-examples-and-best-practices-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smashing Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of my post about how things were in web-design trends back in the mid-90&#8217;s, today you can practically do anything. In the hands of a good illustrator or image artist, websites can look pretty amazing these days without necessarily resorting to methods that might break accessibility standards. I&#8217;ve been working on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,89,134],"tags":[288,74,26],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-news","category-webdesign","tag-background","tag-design-finds","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}