zLayer jQuery Plugin - Orientate Elements

jQuery.parallax Download git clone github.com/stephband/jparallax Instantiation jQuery( '.parallax-layer' ).parallax( options ); What does jquery.parallax do? jParallax turns nodes into absolutely positioned layers that move in response to the mouse. With a bit of CSS you can either set up windows to see these layers through, or leave them free to roam about. The diagram on the right illustrates what jParallax does to the html: and here's a demonstration with some images: More demos demos/index.html demos/stalkbuttons.html - multiple parallax. demos/remotecontrol.html - parallax by remote control. demos/thumbnails.html - beautiful interactive thumbnails. demos/target.html - demonstrates how smoothly jParallax handles window resizing. Using jParallax The default behaviour of jParallax is to show the whole width of a layer in response to the mouse travelling the whole width of the mouseport. There are various ways to style jParallax effectively. Options Layer Options Events

What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design? Responsive websites respond to their environment Adaptive (Multiple Fixed Width Layouts) or Responsive (Multiple Fluid Grid Layouts) Recommended Approach Go All In On Responsive Make pages that look great at any size. “Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Small + Medium + Large One site for every screen. Everyone. The Boston Globe Largest responsive web design project to date bostonglobe.com Grey Goose Responsive site for Grey Goose with parallax scrolling animation www.greygoose.com Barack Obama The Obama campaign continues to be at the leading edge of web technology. barackobama.com Time & Money Older Browsers Performance Content Website vs. “Stop Thinking in Pages. Frameworks (save time) or Roll Your Own (more control) Best Practices Content Check Start Small (Mobile First) Exit Photoshop, Enter Browser Make It Modular Always Be Optimizing *Best practices still emerging!

SUPERSCROLLORAMA SuperScrollorama is powered by TweenMax and the Greensock Tweening Engine. Go to greensock.com for documentation on how to use it. Why Greensock/TweenMax? First, link to the jQuery CDN and then embed TweenMax.js and SuperScrollorama. When initializing SuperScrollorama there are several options you might want to change. $.superscrollorama({options}) vars: optional properties for the pin method (object): isVertical Are we scrolling vertically (true) or horizontally (false)? Example Use the addTween method to build your scroll animations. .addTween(target, tween, duration, offset, reverse) target: scroll position (number) or element (string or object) tween: a Greensock animation tween object duration: scroll duration of tween in pixels (0 means autoplay) offset: adjust the animation start point reverse: disable reverse animation on up scrolling (optional) In the example below, the animation fades in when scrolled into view. Pass in a function to the tween for when the animation is complete.

Create Your Own Trendy Parallax Website Layout Advertisement Introduction Apart form the pinterest dynamic fluid layout and big background image layout, parallax layout is still one of the trend in web design simply because it's a great technique to showcase product/service through an automated presentation by using scrolling. Take Minicooper Japan as an example, when user scrolls down the website, each slide introduces the car features with seamless, perfectly timed animations which is a really great user experience. In this post, we have a few of javascript plugins that are able to achieve pretty impressive parallax animations. Parallax Javascript Plugins It's not easy to make a parallax layout, because parallax layputs usually contain a lot of subtle animations and you really need to plan ahead for this. Sequence JS Sequence is the jQuery slider plugin with infinite style. Inspirations There are way too many parallax websites out there.