Showcase of the Parallax Scrolling Effect

Here are 30 amazing websites that utilize the parallax scrolling effect. At the bottom of the post, I’ve also linked to a few tutorials on how to achieve this effect in your own designs. Enjoy!

Mo’s and Bows

 

Eric Johansson

 

TedxPortland

 

Smokey Bones

 

Billy’s Downtown Diner

 

David Beckham

 

Cultural Solutions

 

Campaign Monitor

 

Appmiral

 

egopop

 

Beer Camp at SXSW

 

Kisko Labs

 

Kontakt & Impressum

 

Row the Pole

 

Atlantis World’s Fair

 

IWC Shaffhausen

 

Nike Better World

 

Improving Speed

 

The Beatles Rock Band

 

Head 2 Heart

 

XHTML Slicing

 

Johan Reinhold

 

Loopclick

 

Dezignus

 

Farmhouse Fare

 

Rastape

 

Jan Ploch

 

Cantilever Fish & Chips

 

Netlash bSeen

 

Sullivan NYC

Software Repair Instructions using Pc Companion (Windows) or Bridge for MAC.

Extended guide that should help you fix the pattern lock issue on your phone, please follow the instructions carefully:

 
Visit this link:
http://www.sonymobile.com/us/tools/pc-companion/
Click on Download PC companion
Run the software
 
Turn the phone off and disconnect it from the computer
1. Disregard any instructions to connect the phone until you complete step 9
2. In the welcome screen you will see the different modules available for you including the "support zone" option. Click on "Start" below it.
3. On the next page Click on "Start" under "Phone/Tablet Software update"
At this point if you get an error stating that "unable to install update components" or "server is bussy" Please proceed to step 12. If you not see that error then continue with step 4.
4. The program will show a window saying "Could not find phone/tablet". Click on the option below that reads: "Repair my phone/tablet" the program will issue you a warning on the content that you will lose during the update
5. Choose the option to continue.
6. The program will issue a final message warning you of possible data lost during the update. Click on the checkmark and then on "Next/Continue".
7. After that, the program will download the necessary information (5 to 6 minutes) and it will present you with a list of phones.
8. Choose the Phone from the list then click on "next" then you will see a new section telling you how to connect the phone. (don't connect it yet)
At this point the phone must be off and disconnected from the PC.

9. Connect the cable to the PC not to the phone, then wile pressing and holding the indicated button (in the steps on screen an specific button will be shown for you to press on the phone) connect the cable to the phone and keep holding the indicated button until the program says "the update of your phone has started..." (in some cases a message of  "Installing drivers" will appear before the message of "the update of your phone has started..."  is shown.)
10. If you failed to follow the steps correctly the phone will turn on and it will request that you "Proceed with the following steps, slide down the notification bar", If this happens disconnect the phone from the cable, turn it off and repeat from step 9).
11. If the phone is connected properly, PC Companion will proceed with the update ( It will tell you to let go of the back key) then wait for the update to finish and follow instructions on screen to disconnect the unit.
 
Dear customer,
12. If "unable to install update components"
1. Close Pc companion
2. Install Java from: http://www.java.com
3. start Pc companion again and try to do the software unlock process once more.
Note: If you wish only to update the unit wait for the program to open and then select the quick link on the uper left corner that says "Update Phone/Tablet" and follow the instructions to perform the update. (the PC may request for the phone to be placed in Mass Storage mode. Do this by going into Settings>Xperia>Connectivity>USB connection mode)
Some computers may block the installation of the update service, if this happens use this:
http://www.sonymobile.com/us/tools/update-service/ this is the Standalone update software.
If the Phone is unresponsive (Then do this extra step and when done proceed to redo the repair process:
Press and hold the power button and the volume up button at the same time for 10 to 15 seconds. This will reset the unit)

Bridge For Mac instructions on my post bellow.
Note: This procedure does not work for the Xperia Play R800x (Verizon and other Non SIM card variants of the Xperia play that lack MTP support.  It does work for the R800a At&t's model)

CSS Hack Target to Safari & Chrome

Problem Statement:

It is inevitable that there will be situations where you need a CSS rule to target a specific browser. This hack targets Safari and Chrome (webkit browsers) and works with Safari 5.1.2 and Chrome 17.0.963.56 version.

Dependencies:

A webkit browser (Safari or Chrome)



/**
* This hack targets the Webkit browser engine 
* which includes Safari and Chrome.  
*/

 @media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {

/** Code goes here..... **/
 div.foo { width: 100px; height: 100px; border: 1px solid red; } 

}

Different viewport meta for iphone and ipad

I found two simple solutions to set different viewport meta for different devices with jQuery. This work for iPad, iPhone or any other device to for that matter.

The first solution for changing the viewport per device. This method uses the width of the device to change the meta data.

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, 

user-scalable=no" /> 

<script>

if ($(window).width() < 600) { 

     $('meta[name=viewport]').attr('content','initial-scale=0.54,

     maximum-scale=0.54, user-scalable=no'); 

}

</script>

The second method is to use the “User agent” tag, to check what kind of device it is. This method of Changing the viewport is not as precis due to different resolutions on the iPad or iPhone based on the model.

<!-- in head -->  <meta id="viewport" name='viewport'> 

<script>      

function(doc) {

var viewport = document.getElementById('viewport'); 

if ( navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i) || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) {

   doc.getElementById("viewport").setAttribute("content", "initial-scale=0.3");          

 } 

else if ( navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) ) {

   doc.getElementById("viewport").setAttribute("content", "initial-scale=0.7");          

 }      

}(document)); 

</script>

Flexible Grid Tools For Responsive Websites

Here, we are presenting 44 flexible grid tools that will help you in creating responsive websites. Here is the full collection after the jump. Enjoy!

Gridpak
Responsive Web Design tool for creating grids by Erskine Design.

The Grid
It’s a 12-column flexible grid that can scale out to an arbitrary size (defined by the max-width of the row) that’s also easily nested, so you can build out complicated layouts without creating a lot of custom elements.

Golden Grid System
A grid system for responsive web design. Includes folding columns, elastic gutters, a zoomable baseline grid, and a delightful grid overlay script.

Susy
The web is a responsive place, from your lithe & lively development process to your end-user’s super-tablet-multi-magic-lap-phone. You need grids that are powerful yet custom, reliable yet responsive.

Columnal CSS Grid System
The Columnal CSS grid system is a “remix” of a couple others with some custom code thrown in. Columnal is an elastic grid, while some code inspiration (and the idea for subcolumns) are taken from 960.gs

Semantic Grid System
Set column and gutter widths, choose the number of columns, and switch between pixels and percentages. All without any .grid_x classes in your markup. Oh, and did we mention it’s responsive?

Responsive Calculator
Just a simple calculator to help turn your PSD pixel perfection into the start of your responsive website.

Adapt
Adapt.js is a lightweight (842 bytes minified) JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser renders a page. If the browser tilts or resizes, Adapt.js simply checks its width, and serves only the CSS that is needed, when it is needed.

Gridless
Gridless is an optionated HTML5 and CSS3 boilerplate for making mobile first responsive, cross-browser websites with beautiful typography.

Simple Grid
Responsive. Infinite nesting. One class per element. Simple.

Base Framework
A super simple, responsive framework designed to work for mobile devices, tablets, netbooks and desktop computers.

Bourbon Neat
A lightweight semantic grid framework for Sass and Bourbon.

Kube CSS Framework
Minimalistic and sufficient for everything, adaptive and responsive. Revolutionary flexible grid and beautiful typography. Absolute freedom with no imposed styling.

One% CSS Grid
One% CSS Grid is a 12 column fluid CSS grid system. It’s been designed as a base for building responsive web layouts easily, quickly and with minimum effort. You don’t have to take care of resizing and rearanging your layout for each platform separatelly. One% CSS Grid will do all this for you.

RWD Grid
rwdgrid is just another Grid system based on popular 960grid , which is responsive and ranges from mobile, tablet, laptops and wide screen displays. Naming convention of this grid system is similar to 960 grid system, where underscore is replaced by hyphen (increases readabilty).rwdgrid is having different Grid system made for 1200px+ Displays, 960px+ Displays, 720px+ Displays and Mobile screens.

Responsify
Responsify is a browser based tool, which allows you to create your own responsive template. Think of it as a foundation for you to build upon. You can customise the grid to suit your content, rather than trying to make the content fit the grid.

Simple Grid
Simple Grid was created for developers who need a barebones grid. Simple Grid works well with 1140px layouts but easily adapts to any size of layout. With fluid columns, Simple Grid is responsive down to mobile.

Toast CSS Framework
Toast is a CSS framework made as simple as it can be, but no simpler. A plain-English responsive grid makes simple layouts a breeze, and with box-sizing you can add padding and borders to the grid, without breaking a single thing.

Ivory
IVORY can easily adapt to any size screen from phones to TVs. It offers 4 different width layouts 1200px, 1140px, 1024px & 960px. You can define your own width also.

Responsive Aeo
Convention over configuration, just twelve columns,less code to learn means less bugs to solve.

Gumby
Gumby 2 is built with the power of Sass. Sass is a powerful CSS preprocessor which allows us to develop Gumby itself with much more speed — and gives you new tools to quickly customize and build on top of the Gumby Framework.

Skeleton
Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17″ laptop screen or an iPhone.

1080 GS
The 1080 Grid System expands upon Nathan Smith’s 960 Grid System by simply adding an additional 120 pixels while utilizing the same margins. Thus, anyone who has ever used the 960 Grid System to design can easily do so with the 1080 Grid System.

960 GS
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.

The Grid System
The ultimate resource in grid systems.

978 GS
978 is a grid layout system that uses 12 columns at 54px, with 30px gutters. This comes out to a total of 978px, which uses up most of the space on a 1024×768 monitor.

Grid System Generator
The grid system generator will create custom grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments.

Responsive Grid System
The Responsive Grid System isn’t a framework. It’s not a boilerplate either. It’s a quick, easy & flexible way to create a responsive web site.

Mueller Grid System
MUELLER is a modular grid system for responsive/adaptive and non–responsive layouts, based on Compass. You have full control over column width, gutter width, baseline grid and media–queries.

Variable Grid System
The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

34 Responsive Grid System
34Grid is a Responsive Grid System based on “equally distributed columns” layout basis. In contrast to other great grid systems (@see bottom of page), 34Grid provides equally distributed columns for each row. (and also column complements for inequal distributions)

ZEN GRIDS
A responsive grid system built with the power of Sass.

LessFramework 4
Less Framework is a CSS grid system for designing adaptive web­sites. It contains 4 layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid.

Fluid Grids
A CSS Framework for Rapid Interactive Prototyping.

Flurid
A cross-browser CSS grid framework that doesn’t hide pixels in margins!

Gridset
Designing grids with Gridset is as easy as dragging guides in Photoshop or Fireworks. Gridset provides whatever you need: PNGs, a comprehensive cheat sheet and CSS.

Tiny Fluid Grid
The happy & awesome way to build fluid grid based websites.

Style Tiles
Style Tiles are a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicate the essence of a visual brand for the web.

Responsivepx
Responsivepx – find that tricky breakpoint.

Multi-Device Layout Patterns
Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes.

Responsive Web Design Sketch Sheets

Responsive Design Test Bookmarklet

Screenqueri

Proportional Grids

referance : smashingapps