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August 21, 2012: Colorbox Image Gallery

ByAnnette

Would you like to include a slick image gallery on your website? Let’s take a close look at the “Colorbox” image gallery system. This is a free/Open source  jquery/javascript system for showing image enlargements on an overlay. It’s widely used on the web, but how is it done?

If you want to download the current version, visit this page:
http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox
This will give you the required files. We’ll set up a demo gallery, and deconstruct the .css and .js settings to tweak the design to our liking.

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