Creating a sense of depth in web design is quickly becoming a hot trend this year. This effect uses layers to display the illusion of 3D effects and movements within a website. Below are a few awesome tutorials that go step-by-step to show you how to re-create this effect yourself, plus some kick-ass examples:

- Create a Funky Parallax Effect using jQuery
- jQuery and CSS single page portfolio, a vertical parallax navigation experiment
- Scrolling Parallax: A jQuery Plugin

parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax
parallax scrolling in web design vertical parallax