The tradeoff is appearance vs responsiveness of the site. Images are cached (usually) so if you are using a large background image for effect and it is on all pages then there is an initial hit afterwhich there should not be a problem. I use a rule of minimal - unless the background is going to make or break the site then keep it simple - so for a site selling oil masterpieces - it could be a good idea - for a site like ebay - forget it.
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by: sokharoitPosted on 2009-10-25 at 22:47:47ID: 25659867
Sure you can use large background image, but you need to think size, my recommendation is not over 500kb like the website you mentioned the background is about 600KB another important point is with and height must be at least 1600 x 1280 for standing and fix background in this case I meant full photo background. Here an example : http://www.brahman.com.kh/ i did before.
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