With time, static websites have become outdated, and audiences are now more engaged with interactive websites. To make your Elementor website interactive and engaging, we bring you a new extension— Interactive Animations in Essential Addons. This extension is all about a whole new approach to your website animations. With the powerful set of controls, you can animate anything, anywhere, anytime to capture the visitor’s attention.
In this blog, we will let you know what this extension is, the different use cases of this extension, and how it brings more interactivity to your Elementor website. Plus, we have a SURPRISE for you at the end of the blog. Let us get started.
Why Use Interactive Animations on Your Elementor Website?
In simple words, you need to use interactive animations to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. Gone are the days of sticking with simple, traditional animations for our websites. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to make your website more interactive and lively to the audience. A few prominent reasons why you use interactive animations:
To Enhance User Engagement
No doubt that animations can significantly boost user engagement with dynamic and interactive content. Only if your website is interactive, visitors are more likely to stay on your site and explore all the things that catch their attention.
To Highlight Important Information
To prioritize the important information that you want to let your visitors notice, making them interactive is a must. Your website’s key information (e.g., calls to action, important notices, special offers and more) needs to catch the attention of your visitors, that is where you need to do animations. It increases conversion rates that ultimately help you achieve the business goals.
To Improve User Experience
With all the animations, the user can get the best experience while browsing the website. Interactive animations’ smooth transitions and elements make your site virtually appealing and easier to navigate for the users.
As you know why you need to use interactive animations on your Elementor website, now let us debug what makes the extension stand out— all the key features of the extension.
Interactive Animations in Essential Addons: Collaboration of Scroll, Trigger, & Load Time
With the release of v6.0, Essential Addons introduces a new logo and a revamped website to the users for a fresh and new experience. Not ending here! It also comes with 3 incredible new extensions and improvements. Interactive Animations is one of them from that list.
If you want to add interactive effects to your static site and make it dynamic, Interactive Animations could be an extension you need to explore. It allows you to create responsive animation on your website that triggers based on page loading and scrolling time. The animation possibilities are huge as the extension provides a variety of animation styles.
Without having any coding expertise, creating an interactive website is only possible with the Interactive Animations extension from Essential Addons. It is time to create interactive websites that truly engage the visitors. Let us have a look at all its standout features:
Animate Elements to Make Your Site Engaging
As we already mentioned, the extension offers different types of animation settings— Easing, Yoyo, and Stagger; that can bring your Elementor website to life with responsive design options.
With the easing feature, you can control how the animation progresses over time, choosing from nine different types or sticking with the default setting. This allows you to create varied effects for your animations.
The Yoyo option lets the animation reverse direction with each repeat, adding more dynamic movement to the element. You can easily activate this by turning on the toggle.
Additionally, the stagger option helps you delay the start times of animations for different elements, making your website animations more organized and visually appealing. You can set the delay from 0.1 seconds to any duration you prefer.
Create Animations the Way You Prefer
With the extension, you can customize your animations the way you want. You can animate any section, column, container, or widget in Elementor with the help of ‘Duration’, ‘Delay’ and ‘Loop Count’ on your elements that glued visitors to your website.
Scroll to Trigger the Animations on Your Website
Essential Addons’ Interactive Animations ScrollTrigger feature lets you create impressive scroll-based animations without needing to code. You can scrub, pin, or trigger elements as you scroll. It is exciting to watch elements come to life while scrolling.
To see and enable the Scroll/Trigger feature, simply toggle on the ‘Enable ScrollTrigger’ right from the Elementor control panel. All the features of the ScrollTrigger option will be revealed to you.
🌟 Scroll Start & End Point: With the option, you can set the start and end point to specify when your animation will trigger with your scrolling.
🌟 Markers: Every developer will love this option of Interactive Animations extension. The markers mainly refer to the start and ending points of animations during the development.
🌟 Scrubbing: The option is for synchronizing the scroll position with the progress of an animation. It makes the scroll bar function as a scrubber, controlling the animation between the ScrollTrigger’s start and endpoints.
🌟 ToggleActions: With ToggleActions, you can trigger a linked animation when the page reaches a specific scroll position. You can also choose from several actions (play, pause, resume, reverse, complete, restart, reset, or do nothing) at four different points: when the animation starts, when it ends, when you scroll back to start, or when you scroll back to end.
🌟 Pin Settings: If you want to keep any specific elements in a constant position anywhere on your web page when the user scrolls through the page. This helps you to keep your important content visible and accessible— provides seamless user engagement.
Guide to Use Interactive Animations in Essential Addons on Your Elementor Website
Configuring Interactive Animations is very easy and straightforward. Follow the below step-by-step instructions to style and configure the extension on your Elementor website.
Step 1: Activate Interactive Animations
Before you begin, ensure that the EA Interactive Animations extension is activated in your plugin. To do this, go to your WordPress dashboard and click on ‘Essential Addons.’ Then, select the ‘Extensions‘ tab. Find the ‘Interactive Animations‘ extension and click the toggle button to turn it on. Finally, click ‘Save Settings.’
Step 2: Configure & Style Interactive Animations
To use this extension, go to your WordPress dashboard and open a new or existing page. Click on any section, then go to Advanced → EA Interactive Animations. Turn on the ‘Enable Interactive Animation’ switch to activate the extension.
Once you’ve done that, you will see all the settings under EA Interactive Animations.
👉 Learn More: How to Style & Configure Interactive Animations
Bonus: More Exciting Extensions & Improvements of Essential Addons 6.0
As we said, the release of Essential Addons 6.0 is huge. Apart from Interactive Animations, Dynamic Tags & Hover Interaction is also on the table as a new extension. Moreover, Conditional Display has come with a lot of improvements. Let us explore them briefly.
1. Dynamic Tags Extension [New]
Imagine your website greeting visitors by name or showing their location. That is what Dynamic Tags can do. These smart tools pull in real-time data to personalize your website. They help you customize content and information, making your site more dynamic and engaging.
2. Hover Interaction Extension [New]
Have you seen how some websites have cool effects when you hover your mouse over something? That is called hover interaction. With this extension, you can easily add those effects to your site. You can pick from different animations, color changes, or even show hidden things. These interactions make your website more fun and keep visitors exploring to find all the neat surprises.
3. Conditional Display Extension [Imrovement]
Do you wish to get the ability to control the visibility of specific content or elements on your web page under certain conditions and criteria? And by any chance, are you using Elementor for your website development? You can effortlessly do that with the Conditional Display extension.
Create Engaging Website with A Special Birthday Discount on Essential Addons 6.0
We are celebrating Essential Addons’ 7th birthday with the launch of version 6.0. To say thank you for your support, we are offering a Flat 20% discount on all Essential Addons plans. Celebrate with us and take your website to the next level today.
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