Subtlepatterns.com is a great free resource for high quality repeating backgrounds for use in your designs. It was created and is actively maintained by Atle Mo. With subtlepatterns.com you can simply browse all of the backgrounds and when you find one that you like you can download the image. He even provides a 2x version
I have been using CSS background properties for quite a few years and have only used what I have needed. There are some pretty cool things that can be done with backgrounds that I was not so familiar with. In this article I’ll highlight some of these not so common options. background-origin The background-origin property
After writing my post Use CSS Calc to Properly Position Background Images I had some folks point out that you can now use the new Four-Value syntax for the background-position property to achieve the same effect. I was absolutely blown away when I saw that this was finally possible. I’m mean, this just makes sense