Backgrounds are so called for a reason. They’re meant to support and complement instead of attract and distract. This week’s featured sites, however, provide a whole other level of interactivity and usefulness to backgrounds. You decide if they’re a good idea or not. Either way, they’re interesting concepts that can only be executed on the Web, so, enjoy!

Nature-inspired websites come by the dozen these days, but this week’s featured designs up the ante. They’re really lovely, I promise!

Typography on the Web is growing bigger and bigger—literally! That is this week’s theme on Friday Focus.

This week’s Friday Focus features different institutions of society as design inspiration for the featured websites. Did they make you do a double-take too?

The use of pink in this week’s featured sites greatly differ from one another. Welcome to a pink edition of Friday Focus!

Rainbows are typically loud and attention-grabbing, but these sites have toned down the explosion of color to bring about a more modern look altogether.

The featured sites this week know how to use lighter, lower contrast hues of brown to evoke a professional, comforting mood.

It’s flexible layouts on this week’s Friday Focus. I’ll be loose with the definition though, since 100% fluid width layouts are so hard to come by!

Let’s have websites with boxed-in content this week. How were these designed to produce such neatly-arranged yet still visually interesting content?

Let’s have some collage and scrapbook style web designs for this week. It’s like the lighter, less angsty grunge!