Backgrounds


Can you read this? I can't!

OK, this hits the highest on the annoyance scale. You want to make it a Schtickluch to put an annoying, ugly, high contrast background image on your annoying page. When you are choosing your ugly image from the many web sites with ugly web clip art you want to make sure that there is a text color that blends easily into it. Then make sure you put that text color on the page so the text is not readable. In fact, so unreadable that any boring content on the page can only be viewed by selecting all the text so it's highlighted. Another way to see if it will churn your readers' stomachs is to do this: remove all the text so it's just a background and then stare at the page for 5 seconds. If your eyes water, then it's annoying enough to put on the web.


If you want some really ugly backgrounds on you page, then here is a list of some common annoyances:

Now you realize why browsers have the ability to turn off images!


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