User Guidance. Often a necessity, but not all users require guidance. We often see pages with FAQs, but do they really need to take up half the page? 1LD has decided that no, they don't; they don't even need to be permanently visible, just accessible. The new Assist stack hides away your questions and answers until they are needed.

Assist adds a simple button to your Stacks' page. The button shape, size and colour is entirely up to you. When the button is clicked, An accordion with your list of options opens, displacing the page content below.
When you click one of the options, an info panel replaces the list. This all happens with subtle animations and is a great way of hiding any form of user guidance until it is needed. A real space saver!

Stack settings

Assist is an innovative space saver that allows you to suppress your questions and answers until the are really needed.

A melodeon, or 'squeezebox' as it is sometimes called (Quetschkommode if you're German), is a musical instrument. It is played by expanding and compressing a set of bellows whilst pressing a combination of buttons.

Weavium's 20th stack, Melodeon, doesn't play music, but it does expand and compress when hovered and it displays buttons when clicked.

Melodeon; a row of columns. When one of the columns is hovered, it expands whilst the adjoining columns are compressed. When clicked, the column expands to full width, the vertical title flips to horizontal and both a 'more' button and an icon are displayed. The more button opens up a content slider below the expanded column and displays further information.

The number of columns that Melodeon displays depends on the number of child stacks that have been added. Both the maximum width and the height can be determined so that Melodeon could also appear as a row of buttons. The columns are neatly stacked when displayed on mobile, but setting the breakpoint to a width higher the the maximum expected viewport also allows Melodeon to be stacked when viewed with a desktop browser.

Stack settings
Max Width – px
Mobile Point
Height
Widths – Min Width, Hover Width
Radius
Spacing Padding
Title Size – Initial, Expanded
BG Icon Size
Icon Offset
Expand Toggle – Button Size, Icon Size
Toggle Radius
Content Width
Padding

Items Mobile
Heights – Min Height, Hover Height
Icon Size
Icon Offset

Colours & Fonts
Title Font – 17 options plus google fonts
Content Font – As above
Colour settings for all content.

The child stack settings can override each of the section settings.

Guide your users, one step at a time. Step from 1LD allows you to create step-by-step sections that lead users to a solution for their problems. Want to show your visitors how to fix their bike? Do you need to explain how to download and install your software? Step is the ideal solution.

Step displays two panels, the left panel shows a menu; the main panel contains the numbered steps/instructions for your visitor to arrive at a solution. The Menu panel displays the steps necessary and gives an idea of how many steps remain to be completed. When your visitor has digested the first step, she/he can either click the 'Next' button, or click the next step in the menu.
A clipboard Symbol slides the menu panel out of sight when it's not needed. And Step is, of course, fully responsive – when viewed on a mobile device, the menu is hidden by default and simply activated by clicking the clipboard.


Once Step has been added to a Stacks page, you can get straight to work, the procedure is simple. Add a Title to your first step – it is automatically added to the menu panel. In the stack container, add the stacks that you need for your description and add your content. Just about any stack is acceptable, including contact forms.
Once you have the first Step completed, you can add further Step child stacks and then set about formatting the display.

Stack settings
General
Maximum Width – Sets the maximum width of the entire stack
Minimum Height – Set minimum height
Radius –Corner radius
Mobile Point – Breakpoint. Note: the sidebar hides and is be toggled by clicking the clipboard icon.

Restart Icon & Button Sizes – Icon size, width, height
Icon colour – Colour of the checkmark icon.
Title & Description colours
Restart Button – Icon & Background
Background – Colour, Double Gradient, Triple Gradient, Image

The possibilities of Step are only restricted by your imagination. I can think of a couple of web designers that will immediately find a use for the stack.

Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight. In web design, we have come to understand parallax to be two objects on a page that scroll at different speeds. Usually a background and a foreground content.

Parallaxer from Shaking The Habitual is the second take on parallax effects in as many weeks and it adds a new dimension to the effect we've become used to. Not only can the background images scroll up the page, they can also scroll to the left or the right. And, because the background image is not defined as a CSS BG, it works on mobiles*. The fact that the image is a 'normal' image, also means that you can add Alt tags to improve your SEO results.

In its default state, Parallaxer adds an image to your page that scrolls slower than the rest of the page. You can set the scroll speed between 10 and 50. A stack container can be activated that allows you to add stacks to be inserted over the background image, either centered, or in one of the four corners.

Stack settings
Image – Warehoused, Local
Alt Text
Restrict Height?
Effect Scale – 10–50
Direction – Up, Left, Right
Add Content – Deactivated by default
Placement – Four corners or Centred

Until 20th June 2018 a discount of 20% can be had by using the code: sth-ninja-parallaxer.

*Tested on Android using Chrome and Firefox

Panels is Weavium's latest contribution to the Stacks scene. Full page animated panels that expand, when clicked, to display whatever you care to drop inside.

When first inserted into a Stacks page, Panels displays a single panel 1000px wide. The panel contains an icon, a title and a stack container into which you can insert the expanded content. The panel may be configured to have a flat colour, gradient (via the Panels item settings) or an image. The Icon – from a choice of four icon fonts – may be replaced with an image.

By adding item child stacks, the panel is divided into two, three, four etc. panels which either have the max width you've set, or fill the container that they are in. When one of the Panels is hovered it expands, the icon gently bounces and a text e.g. 'Read More' slides up into the panel. When clicked, the panel expands to fill the full width of its container and displays the container stacks.Stack settings
General
Max Width – px
Max Height – Vertical Mode, Horizontal Mode
Radius
Mobile Point – Breakpoint px

Section Panels
Icon BG Size – Initial, Active
Icon Size – Initial, Active
Icon Radius – Initial, Active
Title Size – Initial, Active
Title Spacing – Initial, Active
Title Weight
Content Width
Content Padding
Help Text
Help Text Size
Hover Stretch – Desktop, Mobile

Colours & Fonts
Title Font – 18 options plus Custom
Content Font – as above
Icon Colour – Icon, BG
Title [colour]
Help Text
Content – Header, Text, Links
Overlays

The item stack settings allow you to set the individual Icon or image plus a background image and allows the override of all colour settings.

Weavium's expanding stacks are amongst the best available. Panels is no exception and is a highly flexible way to display additional information within a confined space.

NOTE: Ion Icons have just been upgraded to version 4 with which Panels is not yet compatible. If you wish to use Ion Icons, I recommend you download the cheatsheet for version 2 which is 100% compatible.