Why use large images?
Large images are favorites among web designers for good reason. They’re trendy and aesthetically pleasing. They arrest attention with an appealing picture and lay the foundation for the text color and site background. For the majority of web users who skim and scan rather than read text, a picture with a short headline can quickly telegraph a message and get them interested in browsing the site. Many sites like image banks, movie sites, music bands and games sites concentrate on selling products using multiple media, like video, slideshows, images and audio and only minimal supporting text.
How are large images used?
They can be used in several ways, such as the hero image, the full-screen or full-width slider, the rotating gallery and the parallax banner, to name a few of the many options open to web designers.
The power behind the magic – CSS3
Thanks to CSS3, we can now have a perfect full-screen image or image background that fills the entire page with a centered image and retains image proportions with no white space around and no unwanted scroll bar. So go on, display your magnificent images at full 100% responsive width across most major browsers.
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