Add an image as a Section background with parallax in Flow

A very dramatic responsive design idea is to use an image as the background behind a section.

If you add a parallax effect, as the user scrolls down the page the background image and the content over it will scroll at different speeds. This creates a sense of depth.

This lesson outlines the steps to add an image background to a Section on the Flow page and set it to a slow parallax effect.

Tips for controlling the display and design of Image Banner, Image & Text and Image & Motion sections

Steps to replace an image used as a Section background

Quickly create your own library of Sections to add to any page

A walk-through on how to add a Custom Character Set and a Custom Background to the Scenario Builder widget.

Steps to add a Label to an image.

Instead of adding text within an image file you can add Labels when authoring. This is great for identifying or naming parts of a diagram, for example.

If you move the image on a Claro page or if it moves or resizes in a Flow page the labels will stay in position in relation to the image.

The text in the labels is also included in Translation export files, making it easy to translate the text (much easier than editing the image in another application to ch...

Adding a background image to a Section on a Flow page is a great design idea. But images are often very complex visually and it can be hard to read text over them.

One way to help the text be more readable is to add a background color with a transparency setting to the text. The background helps the text stand out against the image while the transparency means the image can still be seen behind the text, providing an effect of added depth to your page.

In this lesson we’ll add a transparen...

Steps to add a Hotspot to an image.

You can add hotspots as a layer over an image. If you move the image the hotspot will remain in the same location in relation to the image.

Once you have added a hotspot you can use it as a trigger for a wide range of Actions such as showing or hiding content.

Steps to add a label to an Image Element.

The label is added as a layer within the image element.

If you move the element on the page, the label will move as well and remain in its location above the image.

Steps to insert an Image within a Text Element.

The text will wrap around the image, much like adding an image within a Word document.