I get more emails about how this than anything else:
“Dear Larissa,
How do you achieve that cool image gallery affect on your about page where the images overlay your content? It is so cool! I would love to do that on my site!”
For some reason I assume the whole world has heard of Lightbox JS but then I remember not everyone is a web designer. The great news is, it is really easy to achieve! Lightbox JS is the best invention next to sliced bread YouTube. This effect is achieved using JavaScript and CSS. Basically an external image is loaded into a hidden div which becomes visible when called. This has been growing in popularity over the last 2 years and is a great method for displaying larger images without the use of pop-ups (*cringe*) or a page refresh.
Here’s a variety of useful LightBoxes.
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Yes it is a great tool indeed, I have used it several times but did have some trouble with it when I had a conflicting plugin also installed.
http://germworks.net/blog/2007/07/16/wordpress-plugins-lightbox/
Helpful article, Larissa!
I´m a webdesigner from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and here, despite our full and rich interactive design context and community, there is a lack of good design blogs like yours.
so helpful. thanks! i’m just learning all this stuff for the first time so i really appreciate you sharing your wikkid knowledge!
you rock!
> I get more emails about how this than anything else
for some reason, I thought you get more emails like
“dear larissa, be my gf”
j/k
JS does miracles. Thanks, Larissa!
ahh, thanks for the information. It is a cool effect.
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For some reason, your main RSS feed isn’t hooking it up. I am getting hungry here!
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@ Josh,
II’m using Feedburner so I’m not sure why it was down but it’s back up now.
I changed my gallery to SmoothGallery from Thickbox.
I couldn’t find a page for this plug in but also floating about is a modded version of flickrRSS that works with lightbox to allow a flickr feed to open up with the lightbox effect rather than going directly to the flickr page.
Flickr probably wouldn’t like this plug in but it’s useful and fun.
I have been looking more at the photo’s then then at the techniek You used
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I use Greybox myself. Its just a little more then Lightbox, but I stil have to put more photo’s in it…..
There is a little work for using GB on WP, but the result is great..