Lightbox your large-format graphics
Jan 10

Lightbox your large-format graphics

Lokesh Dhakar has put together a marvelous little hack called Lightbox to display large-format (“click to enlarge”) images on a web page. The graphic loads up over the existing page in an effect similar to OS X’s Dashboard.

Places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths. Keeps users on the same page. Clicking to view an image and then having to click the back button to return to your site is bad for continuity (and no fun!).

Be sure to click through and check out his demo. Just brutally, terminally cool.

by Joe   January 10, 2006 8:15 AM   |

Comments

by WWWGeek,   January 10, 2006 12:07 PM  

Whoa. I mean, just whoa.

by Deane,   January 10, 2006 1:38 PM  

I know of another very cool application of this same concept.

When you edit a page in Squarespace, it does this same thing -- darkens and fades the background, then centers a WYSIWYG editor right in the middle of the screen. It's a great effect.

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