Archive for the ‘Images’ Category

Facebook Style Photo Tagging

July 16th, 2009

Facebook popularized a great and convenient way of identifying people or objects within a photo. The technique is called photo-tagging and is used for annotating images. There are some pretty neat javascript classes to apply facebook style photo tagging to the image galleries on your website or blog.

Taggify

Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding image tooltips linked to certain image’s reqions. Image regions become clickable and tagged with some title, description and link. When visitor moves mouse over the image, Taggify widget shows a nice tooltip with related content provided by the publisher.

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Top 7 Modal Dialog Boxes Using Javascript (Comparison)

July 10th, 2009

Modal boxes are dialogs that float overtop of a web page without having to open a new browser tab or window. Modal boxes are usually a combination of javascript and css. These boxes are especially useful for displaying a full size image preview, multimedia content, contact forms or alert boxes.

There are some great modal box libraries are available for you to choose from. Below is a list of the best ones.

1. LightBox

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LightBox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page.

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