Lightbox 2.0

First there was Lightbox, now there is Lightbox 2. Dont quite know how to say it but Lokesh has done a great job with this little javascript gem. Well whats is Lightbox? Put simply, Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. For those of you who have been visiting my portofolio, Lightbox was used to display the images. Since my images were taken from a database, it was relatively easy to setup. But the major drawback with Lightbox was that in order to view the next picture, you had to close the current image and select the next one from your list.

Lightbox 2 changes all that. Lokesh has integrated a slideshow feature which allows you to browse through to your images without having to close the current Lightbox window, going back and selecting the next image. Simple genius. The portfolio section of my website has been update with Lightbox 2. Still works as expected with the database.

With the attached CSS file, you can customize the way you want your Lightbox window to look like and if you are pretty proefficient with javascript, you modify the javascript code to add any other fields you require.