The Altitude child theme is proving to be one of the most popular Genesis child themes around. Just see the showcase of stunning sites built on Altitude here.
Like all current Genesis child themes, Altitude is fully mobile responsive, and easy to customise.
It also sports a parallax design, a full width layout, with a long scrolling homepage and where the background moves at a slower rate to the foreground. This creates a 3D effect as you scroll down the website homepage. Used in moderation, it gives a nice, subtle element of depth.
Parallax designs are becoming increasingly popular and so more WordPress themes are being released which cater to this extra demand.
Parallax websites have a number of benefits, but also some downsides…
Advantages
- They look cool, which leads to better visitor engagement
- This can lead to longer visitor time on the website
- The overall website traffic can increase as a result
Disadvantages
- Heavier coding is required for the effect, which can slow down page loading times. If well optimised images are used, this problem can be minimized.
- Some people just don’t like long-scrolling pages
