"One page" / "long front page" web design? [closed]

Question

There's a web design trend that I've been seeing more and more in sites I come across. The thing is, I don't know what it's officially called, so I don't know how to look for the topic in web design sites or blogs. I'd like to find tutorials and articles regarding tips and best practices, but I haven't found any and don't know what people are calling this design style.

Basically, it's having a long front page (or inside pages too) with lots of horizontal sections with big images and text. It's sort of like one-page sites, but it's not one-page. It's sort of like Parallax, but it doesn't really use the parallax effect (not necessarily at least). It also goes very closely hand-in-hand with responsive design, as it shares that long vertical format made for lots of scrolling.

A couple of examples of what I'm referring to: www.marketo.com, www.ginzametrics.com, www.kinhr.com

I'd appreciate any help finding the official name of this, if there's any, or also any related articles or resources. Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe the technical term you're looking for is single-page application or single-page interface.

Google search results for the phrase "single page website" show that it is used to describe the same types of sites. One page website comes up as another synonym (onepagelove.com provides a collection of single-page site designs, for example).

However, single-page application seems to be the most official and comprehensive term. Relatedly, it is actively used as a question tag here at Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/single-page-application