Website background--feedback please! (56K Warning!)

[xRyokenx]

I like it upside down. It almost looks like you're looking into some really grungy box, lol.

[Vital]

If your going to use it as a background for a website, make sure you optimize for a webpage. Because you do not want to have anything 56k warning on your site. And you should make it a more used resolution, or make it "tileable"

Here is an optimized versionYours was 3.2mb, this is only 80k. And it looks decent.)

Another optimized versionThis is 800k, but a lot better looking)

And I like it. Maybe try using some more shades of brown.

[billygoat333]

also, you could break it up using tables and adobe fireworks which would actually make the code for ya for the tables. pretty sweet software.

[Drum Thumper]

Tables are bad. I do my work with css.

If I decide to use this in a professional setting, I will optimize it, and slice away. The problem with using a busy background such as this is the shear size of the background images, whereas something like a gradient-based background (as long as it is linear gradient and not a radial) can be cut down to a x px by 1 px file and be used that way, thus decreasing the amount of bandwidth needed to display the page properly.

Right now, I'm using this on my myspace page (of all places).