The brilliant Lightbox 2 javascript/css, written by Lokesh Dhakar, allows you to present images in a slick window, while darkening the rest of the page. It adds a whole lot of design panache to a website, and adds very little to page load times. It does not require any browser plugins to work. It uses javascript and when a browser doesn’t support javascript, the code fails gracefully.

I have recently been experimenting with a WordPress plugin developed by Rupert Morris that makes the implementation of Lightbox 2 a snap.

Click on the images below to see Lightbox 2 in action. Hats off to Lokesh and Rupert. All images courtesy of www.flickr.com in accordance with the Creative Commons attribution license. Attributions in alt tags of images and full attributions at foot of this page.

Attributions

• Red Bricks by DonnaGrayson http://flickr.com/photos/donnagrayson/92843510/
• Pink &Yellow Wall by DonnaGrayson http://flickr.com/photos/donnagrayson/92843509/
• deep blue sea (wall) by christing-O- http://flickr.com/photos/christing/1447039348/
• Orange texture by geishaboy500 http://flickr.com/photos/geishaboy500/2370469559/
• layer_texture_011 by cwbuecheler http://flickr.com/photos/cuse/1152651136/
• Stair by Neil 101 http://flickr.com/photos/neilw/204239787/
• Wood Blue Texture by cirox http://flickr.com/photos/cirox/2392965854/
• teXture 004 – Rusty Metal by Just.N8 http://flickr.com/photos/themacguy2k/3280287142/

Tags: Lightbox 2
Categories: design, innovation, user experience
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