alternative to lightbox

bobalina · Jun 15, 2007, 11:41 PM

ive been using lightbox as my gallery for a year or two and have been happy.

but now i see it all over the place and it just doesnt have the same effect on me anymore

do you know of any javascript based alternatives lightbox that i could incorporate into my site?

this is an example of what it is at the moment

http://skcbc.com/archive/05/

Thanks

epochblue · Jun 16, 2007, 05:57 PM

Are you looking for something that behaves like Lightbox, but isn't Lightbox or are you looking for something that behaves totally differently?

If it's the latter, in what kind of effect are you interested?

jng · Jun 17, 2007, 01:51 AM

Lightbox and more so some of its alternatives are also customizable so that it doesn't quite look like every other site out there.

I've used a lightbox page like script to open up a page with image as I want it done instead and that's worked well for me. You can edit the how much the page dims in the JS file and in some alternatives, you can customize the CSS more. It's generally still obviously lightbox, but as least slightly different.

But overall, I'm still rather happy with lightbox.

epochblue · Jun 17, 2007, 10:48 AM

Are you tied to a specific JS library/toolkit? I know Lightbox is based on Prototype, but I don't know if you're using Prototype functionality outside of Lightbox or not.

Naturally, it will limit you if you're tied to a single toolkit and unable to use another.

bobalina · Jun 20, 2007, 04:21 AM

because i update the images regularly i find it painful having to write code for every image.

its also that generic look that is annoying. i might have to muck around with the css a bit more and the js to find something i want.

jng · Jun 20, 2007, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobalina

because i update the images regularly i find it painful having to write code for every image.

It's just a CSS class! class=""

What I did for some more static galleries is I wrote a PHP script that grabs images from a directory and puts them in a neat little gallery with their titles - sans .jpg - as their captions. No "update" required.

Such a solution might be what you're looking for.

Re: generic look. Hardly. I find sites that still open up images in popup plain windows generic.

Jun 15, 2007, 11:41 PM	#1
bobalina macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Australia	alternative to lightbox ive been using lightbox as my gallery for a year or two and have been happy. but now i see it all over the place and it just doesnt have the same effect on me anymore do you know of any javascript based alternatives lightbox that i could incorporate into my site? this is an example of what it is at the moment http://skcbc.com/archive/05/ Thanks __________________ MacBook 1.83 Ghz CD 512RAM 60GB HDD MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Penryn 15" 2GB RAM 200GB HDD iPod Photo 30GB iPod Classic Silver 80GB

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epochblue macrumors 68000 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nashville, TN	Are you looking for something that behaves like Lightbox, but isn't Lightbox or are you looking for something that behaves totally differently? If it's the latter, in what kind of effect are you interested? __________________ -- epochblue rolls with a 20" Rev. D Intel iMac, a 15" Rev. C PowerBook, an 80GB iPod classic, 2G shuffle, and a 4GB iPhone.

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jng macrumors 65816 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Germany	Lightbox and more so some of its alternatives are also customizable so that it doesn't quite look like every other site out there. I've used a lightbox page like script to open up a page with image as I want it done instead and that's worked well for me. You can edit the how much the page dims in the JS file and in some alternatives, you can customize the CSS more. It's generally still obviously lightbox, but as least slightly different. But overall, I'm still rather happy with lightbox. __________________ Cheers 2.33 C2D 15.4" MacBook Pro 2GB RAM

Jun 17, 2007, 10:48 AM	#4
epochblue macrumors 68000 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nashville, TN	Are you tied to a specific JS library/toolkit? I know Lightbox is based on Prototype, but I don't know if you're using Prototype functionality outside of Lightbox or not. Naturally, it will limit you if you're tied to a single toolkit and unable to use another. __________________ -- epochblue rolls with a 20" Rev. D Intel iMac, a 15" Rev. C PowerBook, an 80GB iPod classic, 2G shuffle, and a 4GB iPhone.

Jun 20, 2007, 04:21 AM	#5
bobalina Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Australia	because i update the images regularly i find it painful having to write code for every image. its also that generic look that is annoying. i might have to muck around with the css a bit more and the js to find something i want. __________________ MacBook 1.83 Ghz CD 512RAM 60GB HDD MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Penryn 15" 2GB RAM 200GB HDD iPod Photo 30GB iPod Classic Silver 80GB

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