: Image as a background for a website - good or bad? Blogger has some quite awful templates to offer, but one way to make it look less terrible to the eye of a layman (me) is with this background

@Heady270

I strongly disagree with use of such background pictures. You want eye of user to be brought to your main content, not your background !

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@Kristi941

Unless you use a dynamic template, you have almost total freedom to customise in Blogger - without having to pay for self-hosting.

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@Heady270

The good:


You like the way it looks.
It makes it easy to identify your blog (uniqueness).


The bad:


Check the file size. Large images can slow down the site. I'd try to limit it to 150KB.
It ends up being the branding for your website (what makes your website identifiable), but it looks rather generic. You probably want to brand your website more strongly.
It isn't going to be visible on all screen resolutions. You have a wide monitor. Users with laptop screens, mobile phones, and portrait monitors are never going to know that the image exists. They will see the rather boring look and feel to which you object.


Some other options for a more exciting look to your blog would be:


A cover photo
A logo
Your own color scheme

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