Those who enjoy surfing the internet and admire the beauty in websites have almost definitely noticed the introduction of a new design concept: the parallax. The parallax itself is a technique that explores component independent movement, creating astonishing 3D visual effects in the page. This effect relies heavily on the scrolling event, where each component can move at different velocities - during the scrolling - in order to grab users’ attention and direct it to a certain area/information. But what types of parallaxes exist? Why and where should we use them? These are a few questions we'll try to answer in this article.

A few minutes surfing on the internet is already enough for us to see how common it is to have centered elements in a web page layout. But how to do it? How to have elements perfectly centered in the web page? This article aims to explore a few CSS alternatives on how we can get the job done. First we are going to talk about horizontal alignment, and then we’ll explore vertical alignment.