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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Paper Planes

are normally used to represent speed or a medium to send message. Here goes a list of sites that use Paper Planes.

Paper Planes in websites

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Hi, hope you had a great week end! I know it’s been a while since I posted something, so here it goes…

In one of my previous trend reviews, I had mentioned about the cofeecup trend. What if you drop the cofee on your table or paper? yes, it becomes another trend

Do you think adding some coffee stains to your design would make it look better? Here goes a list of hand-picked designs that proves it! I’ve included links to tutorials on how to create such stains in photoshop as well.

Stains in websites

Coffeenatic

iSpoil

teh C peng

The Greg Brady Project

The Piss Biscuit

Mike Desjardins

What would you need to create these cool hot stains?

Its simple…

Photoshop brushes

Now, how to create these brushes?

Its not that hard. Here goes a nice tutorial by web design library But make sure not to spill your entire coffee after reading this

Coffee stain social networking iconset

Wallpaper

A coffee stain

wallpaper

for to keep you inspired.

And finally, a twitter theme

I hope you enjoyed this post. Stay tuned!

Web2.0 rockets and gliders

are visually appealing elements, normally used to indicate speed. Here goes a list of sites that follow this

trend

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1. A Pilot

2. Div Voted

3. Drupal Con

4. Get Me Fast

5. iSlayer

6. Jeff Sarmiento

7. Little Kids Bedrooms

8. Rawkes

9. Sopa

10. Mix Online