Background Gradient & Image
EverWeb doesn't have a way to insert a color gradient in the background and the method of inserting an image is definitely NOT suitable for respoonsive pages.
Gradient
The ThemeKit Basic Background widget creates a background with a two color gradient with adhustable gradient angle
Background Image
The standard method of inserting a background image should never be used since the re is no option to insert alt text for the search engines and screen readers.
Browser Background Image
An image inserted in the background has to be stretched across the whole of the browser background which requires a compromise in quality to keep the image down to a reasonable size.
In Use
The ThemeKit Basic Background widget inserts the images in HTML <img> tags to allow alt text.
The image is inserted in three sizes for the various devices and has a lazy loading option.
The image is set to fill the browser/device viewport rather than the background so that smaller images can be used without degrading the quality.
The image has the option to add an overlay with controls for color and opacity to reduce the impact of a "bright" image.
The overlay can be set to animate in on page load with controls for the animation time and delay set in milliseconds.
