The Backgrounds or borders of your web page will be the First Impression of your web site a visitors gets when they visit your site. Consideration of what that first impression will be, must be a serious decision.
Which better serves my pages, backgrounds or borders? Backgrounds are normally a single color, single picture, or an image that repeats itself over the entire area of the page. A bordered background uses an image only on part of the viewing area, and a larger area for text. This site uses "Borders", like the Black border on the left.
Here is an example of a "tiled" background. (CLICK)
Here is an example of a "tiled" background that is seamless (CLICK)
Here is an example of a "border" background that repeats. (CLICK)
Here is an example of a "border" background that is seamless (CLICK)
For more examples and FREE samples, see QUICK VIEW below.

• Text should be easily read thought the background.
• Backgrounds should be easily associated with the content of the page. A background with pictures of tigers, may not be the best background for a story about how to fix tube type radios. Although it may be very colorful, it may not convey the message your trying to get across.
• Load time. Some backgrounds and borders are quicker loading than others. Their file size varies, and when choosing a background this should be a consideration. If your pages contain alot of graphics, try using smaller file size backgrounds. Or if a background is a large file size, on your first page, use more text - less graphics to allow the background to load into the computer "cache", it will then load quicker on pages that have a large amount of graphics. 
• Change backgrounds on pages only when necessary. The pages of your site will load quicker if you use the same background on different pages. Even backgrounds that are similar, will need the full time to load if you change them.  Computers see each background as a new file to load no matter how similar they are.