Full Screen Websites

Full screen websites are those that fill the entire browser window (but not necessarily the entire screen), no matter what the screen resolution is. As screen sizes and resolutions are growing and internet speed is increasing, it seems like more and more web designers use full screen images for their websites backgrounds. Oversized background images can be stunning and have more visual impact than the traditional tiled background graphics.

It is said that bigger is better and it must be true, seeing that full screen websites are everywhere on the Internet. This trend has been probed to be successful with portfolios, restaurant, and fashion websites, but it seems to be gaining popularity in other kind of sites too and can be found everywhere. The presence of a huge image, can give a feeling of importance to a website by using the entire space available. A lot of content driven websites are using full screen designs as they allow websites to make an efficient use of space that helps them show a lot of information. A web designer can be sure its website will be viewable and look the same on all types of screens and resolutions by using a full screen layout.

The browser viewport is a fluid medium. There are many options to produce full screen backgrounds and ways to place HTML over the images. Some websites depend on a flexible layout to stretch across the browser window, while others use large images with a fixed size to produce large backgrounds. But the easiest way to stretch any background image in a browser window is to use a background image in CSS.