If you are going to do Damask, at least do it properly!
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Isn’t it fun when your friends email you telling you they think they have seen your design ripped off somewhere? Well somebody pointed me towards “Pastarazzi” in Chester, citing their background image.
Whilst not directly a lifted image, they have gone for a similar looking tiled, black and grey damask look ( you can see it at http://www.pastarazzi.co.uk ).
Now i’m not obviously saying invented this look (used here to great effect here on my own website) but its a real shame they have made a piss poor hash at it - the background isn’t fixed, and the image doesn’t actually line up with itself when tiling! Oh dear…
If you are looking for a proper way to do it, take inspiration from the following code (note the php file pointing to is a rotation script, you can just change this to your fixed image).
body{margin:0px;padding:0px;
font: 13px Tahoma,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#767676;
background-color:#fff;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;
background-image: url(../../images-re-align-design/BGrotator/rotator.php);
background-repeat: repeat ; background-attachment:fixed;}
