20 Great Examples of Parallax Scrolling Websites

Parallax scrolling is a web design trend where the background content – image or more and more often video, is moved at a different speed than the foreground content while scrolling.

There are many different degrees of parallax scrolling, from a complete site with things jumping out when you scroll down the page, to a relatively simple static background with foreground scrolling. This effect now pretty often are used in Premium WordPress themes, so you can check these themes too to get more inspiration.

If you are not familiar with this website effect, at first maybe you will not understand what is it and how to they do it. But all is very simple: out there are a lot ready to go WordPress themes with build in Parallax scrolling effects, there are a lot of jQuery scripts. But today we will not show you how to create Parallax scrolling effects but results of it: Here we have collected some of the best parallax scrolling sites for your perusal. Please visit each site to see the effect.