One of the most compelling trends has been the use of stunning photos that span the user’s entire window as the background image for a site’s homepage. This kind of website design has a huge visual impact and is almost guaranteed to be remembered by its visitors. Whether you are looking to highlight a memorable location, product, or person, the strategic use of a full width background image on your site can make an impact like nothing else.

Here are six examples of how sites are making use of this concept. Notice also that some sites are using a slideshow effect to rotate among multiple full width images. This creates even more stunning visual impact, and allows for showcasing various features or points of interest.

Note: Turn your speakers down before opening these sites since at least one of them plays music automatically upon load.

1. as-architecture.com has rotating full width images….

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Have you ever tried to enlarge a small gif or jpg image to about 10 times its size, so you can use it in a large format on your website? If so, you’ve probably realized that the image quality seriously degrades when you try make the image bigger. Bitmap images, also known as raster images, are files in formats such as png, jpg, gif, bmp, tiff, and psd and when their sizes are increased, pixelation occurs, causing the resized larger images to look blocky and blurry. Vector images, on the ohter hand, are based on precise mathematical shapes, which can be scaled up or down, large or small, without losing any quality. Vectors are great images to use, but creating vectors from scratch is beyond the talents of many non-designers.

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Google Plus has suddenly changed its logo from a matte black background with a white plus in the center, to a red background containing a white partially chopped g+ within it. This is bound to cause confusion and countless webmasters have already placed the old icons across their pages. If you want to be one of the first to make the switch to the new red icon, here are two great icon sets that you can download for free.

PixelPinch has a set of icons in sizes 128×128, 256×256, and 512×512. Each is available in Rounded, Gloss, Square, or Custom styles, and includes not just the new Red, but all the Google colors. Contains .PNG format as well as .PDF and .CDR vector files.

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Seriftuts has the new red Google Plus icon in two versions,…