Parallax was made popular in web design by Ian Coyle with the launch of Nike Better World. Personally I think it’s a great way for story telling websites and portfolio sites and can be quite effective when used properly. In spite of having received a lot of criticism of late, Parallax still remains a hot trend for Joomla! templates. You can use parallax templates to build a wide niche of sites, especially portfolio sites and landing pages. In this post, we have collected the best Joomla templates from the Envato Market, that makes use of the parallax effect.
Vastudio
Vastudio is a fully responsive, creative one page Joomla template that supports drag and drop customization. It also supports 4 different types of intro styles.
Wunderkind
Wunderkind is a easy to use one page parallax template with aloads of great features. It has been designed to make it easy to customize. Choose from either a fullscreen slideshow or a fullscreen YouTube video running in the background of your page. Simply put any YouTube URL into the code and your away.
SmartOn
SmartOn is a great Joomla template with clean, modern deign,fully responsive and packed with awesome features.
Floyd
Floyd is a 100% responsive HTML5 and CSS3 theme. It’s perfect for agencies, corporate and business sites. It’s powered with twitter Bootstrap 3.0.
Bloora
Bloora is an Joomla template based on the powerful Gantry Framework that comes in light and dark theme. It comes with a blog, photo gallery and newsletter component.
Visia
Visia is a fully responsive and retina ready portfolio Joomla template that offers stunning design, really great compatibility. It comes with 6 Add-ons like eMail List Subscription Form, AJAX portfolio, etc.
Bubbles
Bubbles is a Parallax one page Joomla template with a page builder. The theme is fully responsive and comes with 2 homepage layout styles. It’s compatible with Joomla 2.5.x/3.x.
Max
Max is a minimal and elegant one page template. It could be used for different type of sites, such as personal portfolio, small agency, landing page, artist, food and all kind of business sites. Max has a flexible layout and it comes to you with 70+ options panel! The power is in your panel. It’s clean coded, 100% validated template with extensive documentation.
Arwen
Arwen is a Responsive one page joomla theme. It has multiple colors style and 2 layout to select. You can set different patterns for boxed layout. You can also use RTL layout and multiple languages. Arwen with powerful features, easy to customize, power admin, cool effect.
Wisten
Wisten is a responsive one page parallax Joomla template with a lot of great features. It has been designed to make it easy to customize. Choose from either a fullscreen slideshow or a fullscreen YouTube video running in the background of your page. Simply put any YouTube URL into the code and your away.
There you have it folks Joomla template, using parallax design. These Parallax templates can be used to add spark to your Joomla! website. If your design shows most of its info in one page layout, Parallax is something you should surely consider using!