What Happened to Vokes Burnley After Leaving?

Alright, let me tell you about my experience messin’ around with Vokes Burnley – you know, tryin’ to get that cool parallax effect on a website. It was a bit of a journey, lemme tell ya.

First off, I stumbled upon Vokes Burnley ’cause I was lookin’ for a simple way to add some depth to a site I was workin’ on. Everything felt kinda flat, and I wanted somethin’ that would make it pop without bein’ too over the top. Vokes Burnley seemed like it could do the trick.

So, I started by diggin’ into the documentation. It’s not the worst I’ve seen, but it’s not exactly beginner-friendly either. Basically, you gotta include the Vokes Burnley JavaScript file in your HTML, and then you use data attributes to tell it which elements you want to parallax.

Here’s where things got a little tricky. I had this section with an image in the background and some text overlayin’ it. I wanted the image to move at a different rate than the text when you scrolled. Easy enough, right? Wrong!

I messed around with the data-vokes-offset attribute for a while. This is where you specify how much the element should move relative to the scroll position. The higher the number, the faster it moves. I tried everything from 0.1 to 0.9, but I just couldn’t get it to look right. Either the image was movin’ too fast and looked jittery, or it was movin’ too slow and the effect was barely noticeable.

Then I started playin’ with the data-vokes-breakpoint attribute. This lets you disable the parallax effect on smaller screens. I figured this would be useful for mobile devices, where the parallax effect can sometimes be a bit distracting. I set it to 768px, so the parallax would only kick in on tablets and desktops.

But here’s the thing: the whole effect looked terrible on mobile anyway, even without the parallax. The text was too small, the image was gettin’ cut off, it was just a mess. So, I ended up ditchin’ the parallax altogether on mobile and just used a static background image.

One thing I noticed was that Vokes Burnley can be a bit resource-intensive. Especially on older computers or mobile devices, the parallax effect can cause some serious performance issues. The scrolling gets choppy, and the whole site feels sluggish.

To combat this, I tried debouncin’ the scroll event. This basically means that the parallax effect only updates every so often, instead of every time the user scrolls. This helped a little bit, but it didn’t completely eliminate the performance issues.

In the end, I got the Vokes Burnley lookin’ decent, but it took way more effort than I expected. I had to tweak the offsets, adjust the breakpoints, and debounce the scroll event to get it runnin’ smoothly. It’s definitely not a plug-and-play solution, but with a little bit of elbow grease, you can get some pretty cool results.

Would I use Vokes Burnley again? Maybe. It depends on the project. If I need a quick and dirty parallax effect, it might be worth considerin’. But if I need somethin’ more robust and performant, I’d probably look into a different library or roll my own solution.

Here’s a quick recap of my process:

• Include the Vokes Burnley JavaScript file in your HTML.
• Use the data-vokes-offset attribute to control the parallax speed.
• Use the data-vokes-breakpoint attribute to disable the parallax on smaller screens.
• Consider debouncin’ the scroll event to improve performance.
• Don’t be afraid to experiment and tweak the settings until you get the desired effect.

Good luck, and happy parallaxin’!