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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
I know what you're talking about, but why would you make it 1600 wide? If you're just doing a color fade, make it 1px wide. Loads faster, looks the same. By making it 1600 wide, you're just wasting bandwidth. Even if it's just a few k.
If it's not a color fade but an image fade, then you're still screwing yourself for people with larger resolutions, unless it's an image that is horizontally repeatable.
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No. You misunderstood. Of course there would be no reason to do a simple gradient 1600 wide. I'm talking about an image with a real design... like this bg from MTV..
http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/char...mes/35/hat.jpg
This doesn't exactly "fade-out" but it does have white edges so if your resolution is above 1600 wide, it looks perfectly normal.
Same principal with this yellow one..
http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/css/char...mes/26/hat.jpg
Just make the bg color white or yellow respectively and it doesn't matter what resolution users have.
Different bg images and a couple css tweaks make that site look completely unique everytime you refresh. (
www.mtv.com)