Parallax Scrolling Effect: The Old New Concept

23Aug '12

Parallax Scrolling Effect: The Old New Concept

In: Resources, Showcase/By: Helen Hill/0 Comment/

We bet you remember those games of 80’s-90’s, like Mario Bros and Mortal Kombat. In such games the technique of parallax scrolling can be noticed in the moment when several background layers with different textures move with the different speed which creates an effect of a 3D space.

Nowadays parallax effect is being used while designing websites, though we see it not very often because the technique is rather difficult to implement. Nevertheless, parallax scrolling is a cool design effect which unstoppably walks into the world of web design. If you look on one of the websites with the parallax scrolling you will notice that while you scroll the page down several different elements, which are on the page, move with the different speed. This is how parallax scrolling is displayed when different layers of the images are imposed upon each other and move with their own speed while the page is being scrolled creating a 3D effect.

However, parallax scrolling is not limited with the vertical page scroll or straight line scrolling only. If you remember the Nintendo games where the heroes were moving horizontally from L to R along the screen, you understand the plot. As you see, this concept is also not so new. Apart from it, the use of parallax scrolling should not be limited with a chance to create an artificial 3D effect only. You can add various effects on the site page, for example, icons moving according to different paths, their zooming in and out during the scrolling.

Parallax scrolling effect will help you to enliven the website where not a lot of content is presented. It can be a perfect solution for the sites with About Us section, Contact Us and Mission Statement only. Parallax is an excellent trick which you can use to catch the eye of your clients. You can make use of it either when creating a single-page site or a multifunctional website.

Taking into account that parallax scrolling is a visual effect we’d like to proceed from words to something more obvious – to the real examples of parallax scrolling effect. That is why you can now estimate a showcase of websites which perform the effect in the best way.

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