Incorporate textures in your web site designs and keep users on-site longer! Texture enhances users’ experience by creating depth and making content easier to read.
Homemade web designs, which utilizes texture as one of its visually appealing elements, has been a trend for quite some time. You can read more about web design trends in our recent article, 6 web design trends that are here to stay.
Want to incorporate texture into your next design? Here are some awesome web site inspiration and texture resources that we recently shared via twitter@99designs.
30 inspiring examples of textures in web design
50 fresh and free texture packs to spice up your designs
Form and function: websites that combine beauty with usability
Metal textures
10 highly interactive, beautifully illustrated web designs
6 free high resolution plastic wrap textures
35 navigation menus for your design inspiration
40 amazing and free texture sets
20 inspiring examples of textures in web design
Textures in web design: examples and best practices
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Based in San Francisco, Allison (Alli) Stuart works as Community Content Coordinator at 99designs. When she's not writing blogs and communicating with designers, she is working on her Children's Book. She also enjoys extreme sports, like sky diving and traveling to new places. Alli has a Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in Graphic Design from Louisiana State University, her home. Geaux Tigers!
Very useful tips are here.The usage of textures in websites has become quite popular.Depending on the contents or the styles of the pages in the website, the textures must be chosen.Thanks for sharing such a good post.
I love textures in web design! It adds this extra premium detail feel. Thanks for the sources, I might use something later. ;)
Great, I hope you do! :)
I like the textures in Website Design. You may also checkout texture in my website at http://www.incirclemedia.com
I like this post.
Awesome post Allison, cheers for sharing! Great to have both resources and design examples in the same post, I am very glad that I checked the site this morning! Textures really can make a design and finish it off nicely. Very inspiring stuff, like the way you have given examples of texture use in web design but also resources to textures themselves, very useful. Thanks!
Textures is easiest part of web design. Designers love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and eye-catching. Thanks
Nice and very informative post. Your opinion is more or less the same as main.Web development is an art and web design a new creativity of a new idea.Careful planning is essential, and the designer should bear in mind the different ways in which viewers interact with the site.Thank you very much for the comprehensive article.