I have a different sort of post for you today: A post about pair of websites that I have found that are really quite useful. Quite often when I am creating a website or webpage for some reason or other (today I needed one for bloworm), I keep finding that it always looks a bit plain. These websites that I have found today help to partially solve that problem. They are full of simple tileable textures that look great as backgrounds in many different contexts.

The first is called subtlepatterns.com. It contains a bunch of free to use textures that go well in the background of something without standing out.

The second is called transparenttextures.com. It is similar to the website above - but the textures it provides are transparent so that you can overlay them on top of something else. These are good when you have a colour in mind, but want to add a little something to it to make it look a little less plain.