1. What is parallax?
If you are looking for a definition of parallax, here it goes. As far as the web (especially design) industry is concerned, parallax is the arrangement/animation of images in a way that lets you feel the distance between them.

For example, imagine that you are looking through the window of a moving vehicle. You will see the objects closer to you moving faster compared to the distant ones. The sun stays still while the trees, buildings and other objects move.
In this post I would like to walk you through different posts, examples and tutorials that would help you achieve this effect.
This technique was initially used in 2d video games and now mostly seen in single page portfolio websites and website headers.
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