So in the Leadup to Build Conference I attended an ‘Evening With Airside’ a Design Company in London.  Sometimes its good too feel inspired and after I had heard them I felt just that.

These guys are competent in all things Design, Web, Graphic Motion, Video all the Shizzle Majizzle.  It was interesting how they work on Projects and what their thought and Processes are.

However then came the icon line of the talk.

‘We should care for our websites, continue to evolve them and challenge boundaries.’  This struck a cord, sometimes I can get stuck in a rut, I need to rediscover the passion that I once had and push my own boundaries both design and life.

Thanks Airside (even though I didnt get a free calender) #badtimes

Airside Online

At the end of January I began to redesign my entire website.  I felt it had such an out of date look that I began to resent it, this is a bad sign when you really need it to make some money.

I began to look at some current trends and realised that the ‘new look’ for this year is textured backgrounds. This could be anything from ’scrunched up paper’ too ‘rusty metal’ or how about a nice piece of wooden paneling? I thought I was watching an episode of Changing Rooms with Carol Smilie Smilie. There are so many sites out there offering free texture’s like here, here and here.

Ok so maybe that is not strictly true, I just included it for a good read but it got me thinking textured backgrounds make some great looking websites and in turn I decided to make one myself with a nice papery effect.

So here I have listed  Ten Great Websites with textures.  These all look great, but I am sure I have left some out, if you know of anymore leave me a comment ;)

1. Satsu Design, Isle of Man Web Design Agency

   

2. Scouting For Girls

   

3. Pikaboo

   

4. Element Fusion’s Internship Program

   

5. Revive Africa

   

6. Boot B – Unlimited Creativity

   

7. Web Designer Wall – Jobs

   

8. Lucy Blackmore

   

9. Slabovia