Design texture is sometimes difficult to understand for beginning web designers because texture is how something feels, and web designs can only be seen. But as you can see in this texture gallery, texture in web design is a visual element that gives your designs depth. Compare the same simple design with flat color and textured backgrounds to see how texture impacts the design.

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Dress Up Your Designs with Texture originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 02:07:01.

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