We’ve featured moving backgrounds using native HTML/CSS/JS animation before, but using video in backgrounds is quite the challenge given how it eats up more resources. Let’s see how effective these websites use this feature in this week’s Friday Focus.
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Like the two other sites, the video background appears only in the homepage. The overall look here is warm, earthy, handcrafted—mixing two “scratchy” typefaces and a vintage color palette. Everything looks customized, even the music page uses play/pause control buttons that blend in.
The video background runs a shorter loop than the other too, so that’s something to consider when using such a thing, although I’m afraid the quality suffers a bit. This one page site doesn’t need much else to its design, either, because it’s the design of its product, an iPhone app, that will grab your attention.
There’s a purplish/pinkish hue to the video on the homepage that regrettably disappears in the other pages, where brown dominates. I do like the page transitions and other animations though, all carried out in a slanted fashion. There’s also a neat slideshow technique in the Virksomhet page.
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