Somebody Has To Do It!

Alright everyone, somebody is going to have to do a complete tutorial on creating a website using the parallax effect in 365 Premium. I just cannot figure out how to do it in a classy and really clean way. The Xara documentation is vague and of no help to me on this one.

A video tutorial would really be ideal!

I appreciate it...

After some trial and much error, I may be figuring it out a little bit. Take a look at what I'm working on: http://ricksworks.com/portmans/

The idea is to create "sections" that have the appropriate image scroll in at the right time.

I think 'Music Lessons' and 'Rentals' need to have their images swapped.

Discounting the fact that I dislike the effect, I think you have done a very good job of that. I agree with Paul, the images may be better swapped.

I think nice job so far.

Thanks everyone. I do like the effect but I also think that it has been overdone.

Looks really nice, congrats!

... but did it "stutter" while scrolling for anyone else?

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Originally Posted by pauland

I think 'Music Lessons' and 'Rentals' need to have their images swapped.

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I cannot tell because I get no images on those two.

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Originally Posted by Dijenga

... but did it "stutter" while scrolling for anyone else?

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Not for me

Sorry this one went wrong,

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Originally Posted by Pixelpusher

After some trial and much error, I may be figuring it out a little bit. Take a look at what I'm working on: http://ricksworks.com/portmans/
The idea is to create "sections" that have the appropriate image scroll in at the right time.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but,under Music lessons both kids and adult classes photos and text should have their positions reversed or at least the photos flipped horizontally. Particularly kids classes bothers me because the "kids" photo seems to lead the eye out of the photo/text composition. Maybe that's what Paul and handrawn are referring to.

The 'Music Lessons' and 'Rentals' images are now correct. Before they were swapped.

The blue band for 'Rentals' isn't properly aligned with the image.

I understand the 'stutter' comment - I noticed it wasn't smooth scrolling always and I find that when I view using Chrome or FireFox, it's smooth after the images are cached, it's not so smooth on Safari.

Not so keen on the sans-serif menus, and some menu options, particularly on mobile, don't do anything.

Stylistically the site is a mixture of 'Classic' and 'Modern'. I'm not sure that's so good.