I think having a set in stone background is great and all, but only for certain webpages. I personally like a parallax scrolling background though. Going through this chapter was sort of helpful for when it comes to making our own webpages for if we were to need gradients, or just background images in general. I think I’ll be trying the linear repeating gradient sometime soon just because it pops text out so much. I also learned while throwing my typeset images into illustrator that it actually isn’t giving me any helpful code at all. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong to be honest. I watched the videos and my files just bring up the code to make the image a background image?
Going back to the videos; the one that was like 50 minutes talked about an app called Adobe Kuler, which turns out is pretty freaking sweet. You can literally take a picture of anything that inspires you color-wise with your phone, and Kuler will pull certain colors out of it and then let you save it as a theme that’ll automatically be synced into all your adobe programs for use in designs, which I think is pretty sweet.