ShadowBox JS in action
Just a quick update to let you know that my Flash demos will be from now on be displayed in ShadowBox.js via the ShadowBox JS WordPress plugin. Its a lightweight javascript library that allows you to show all kinds of media on your website in a slick popup window. You’ve probably seen them before on video and image gallery sites.
While the ShadowBox JS plugin will handle all your images, videos, SWFs, etc… by default, I prefer to manually determine which media will utilize it. And to do so, its as simple as adding “rel=shadowbox” to your anchor tags, which I use in my Box2D demo post:
<a rel="shadowbox;height=600;width=800;"
href="http://savagelook.com/demos/box2d/box2d.swf"
target="_self">
<img class=" " title="Box2D demo"
src="http://savagelook.com/images/box2d_full.jpg"
alt="Box2D demo" width="516" height="487" />
</a>I avoided pre-built blogs for the longest time because I’m a ridiculously customization driven programmer, but with what WordPress has available for free, I wonder why I wasn’t using it all along. I highly suggest ShadowBox.js for your WordPress blog or any website that needs a little extra eye-catching flair. And let’s face it, if you’ve been around my blog for any amount of time, it’s all about eye candy.
