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.

Steps to replace an image used as a Section background

Tips for controlling the display and design of Sections with Dividers

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

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 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...

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.

In a Flow page, the height of a Section is set by the height of the content it contains by default.

You can override that default height, though, and tell the Section to behave as if its height is a ratio based on the height of the browser window it’s being viewed within. Along with that height setting, you can set the content within the Section to align within the Section’s height. It’s a great design idea for creating a dramatic full-height Section on your page.

In this lesson we’ll set ...

Steps to change the background fill color on a Section in a Flow Page.

For this lesson the page has a Decorative Header section added to the top of the Page from from the Add Your First Section options on a blank page plus a second section added below that.

You can set a background fill color on any Section on a Flow page using these same steps.

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.