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February 28th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy
The brilliant (External) 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 (External) Rupert Morris that makes the implementation of (External) Lightbox 2 a snap.
Click on the images below to see (External) Lightbox 2 in action. Hats off to Lokesh and Rupert. All images courtesy of (External) www.flickr.com in accordance with the (External) Creative Commons attribution license . Attributions in alt tags of images and full attributions at foot of this page.
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/
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