Enhancing the Display of Images on Your Site with Slimbox »
I'm not a big user of images - though I have a digital camera, I typically end up using it less than I probably should. I think one of my goals for next year will be to actually get some of the images off the memory card in the camera and let people see the pictures I've taken. One step in that process is to get them in a format that makes them nice looking. A single page without much around it, as you often see on a web page, can be downright ugly. Enter Lightbox.
This JavaScript framework is a fairly simple way to display pictures with a sort of frame around them - the image is actually assigned a special HTML segment, and the surrounding section of the page is blacked out, giving the viewer a much more pleasing experience than a simple image without much around it. There are three problems with Lightbox. The first is that it's big, the second is that it's slow to load and the third (and most important) is that it doesn't work! Luckily, there are some options.
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