DMXzone Lightbox
"Ever wanted to open your great looking photos in a modal stylish popup, catch the user's full attention? Meet the DMXzone Lightbox"
Ever wanted to open your great looking photos in a modal stylish popup, catch the user's full attention? Meet the DMXzone Lightbox - It offers amazing Lightbox popup designs that catch the eye and amaze the user with its slick designs and easy usage!
The DMXzone Lightbox has been created with fully customizable design presets allowing you to explore your creativity and fit the Lightbox perfectly into your site design. With a single click you can add Lightbox functionality to any existing elements like images, links or forms! With the build-in DMXzone Resizer the Lightbox will directly resize your images, create thumbnails and even combine images in galleries, while getting a live preview of the Lightbox inside Dreamweaver. Enjoy your great Lightbox designed and drawn specifically for you.
The DMXzone Lightbox is the first ever Canvas based Lightbox control! With Canvas the design of your Lightbox is fully drawn online! No more including weird corner images to make it look good!
Features Highlights:
- Fully customizable design presets, with great round corners, all drawn real time with canvas! No more faking corners with images
- Configuring/editing already existing designs with DMXzone Lightbox Presets Explorer
- Ability to combine images in galleries that open in the Lightbox dialog
- Automatically resize images and generate thumbnails by using the build-in DMXzone Image Resizer
- Use Lightbox to open regular, existing links in the Lightbox dialog
- Great integration in Dreamweaver offering fully interactive live preview of the Lightbox options and designs within Dreamweaver!
- Build-in own Floater in Dreamweaver - all Lightbox elements are inspected by its own Floater, so you don't lose the ability to edit your images and links in Dreamweaver but rather you get additional options
Creating Lightbox Gallery with a Single Thumbnail
With this movie we will show you how to create a Lightbox Gallery with only one thumbnail on your page.
Lightbox Galleries Album
Amazing Panoramic Views Demo
Click on the thumbnails below in order to view the full-size panoramic photos and use the arrow keys to navigate through the Active Photo Viewer within a Lightbox window.
"Life Moments" Movies Gallery Demo
The demo features an amazing collection of HD videos from the young and talented artist Matthew Brown. Based in Seattle, USA, this young video producer creates masterpieces with his camera and impresses the audience with every single shot.
| Features in Detail » |
- Fully customizable design presets, with great round corners, all drawn in real time with canvas! No more faking corners with images
- Configuring/editing already designs with the interactive DMXzone Lightbox Presets Explorer
- Ability to combine images in galleries that open in the Lightbox dialog
- Automatically resize images and generate thumbnails by using the build-in DMXzone Image Resizer The extension has a built-in super fast, multithreaded image processor in Dreamweaver, that will resize your images and make thumbnails in an eye blink. Original images can be automatically resized to fit the specified size while the proportions are maintained. Without any external applications, no more Fireworks or Photoshop needed.
- Use Lightbox to open regular, existing links in the Lightbox dialog
- Great integration in Dreamweaver offering fully interactive live preview of the Lightbox options and designs within Dreamweaver!
- Build-in own Floater in Dreamweaver - all Lightbox elements are inspected by its own Floater, so you don't lose the ability to edit your images and links in Dreamweaver but rather you get additional options
- Web standards based
The gallery complies to the latest web standards of the W3C
- JavaScript Unobtrusive
Images will always display correctly, even if your users don't use JavaScript or have a very old browser
- Search Engine Friendly
Due to the advanced incorporated technology this gallery is the ultimate search engine friendly gallery so the gallery titles and descriptions are well indexed by search engines
- Interoperability with the DMXzone Behavior Connector
- Open pages with your DMXzone Lightbox that contain other DMXzone extensions such as Advanced Tooltips, Advanced Layer Popup, Flash MP3 Player, etc.
- Control the DMXzone Lightbox with your own customized interface, using behaviours.
- Slideshow option with automatic thumbnail popup
- Create great slideshows with the DMXzone Lightbox Gallery option.
- Images are resized while constraining proportions
- Original images can be automatically resized to fit the specified size while the proportions are maintained using Dreamweaver or Fireworks
- Integrated in Dreamweaver
- Interactive dialog in Dreamweaver with all the options you'll need
- Preview in Dreamweaver
- You can see a live preview within Dreamweaver of how your gallery, link, or item will look like and navigate within the photos and links just as a user would on the web!
| « Overview | Demos » |
Christmas Cards Demo
The demo combines Universal CSS Navigation menu which navigates the Sliding Billboard items and the images are displayed in a DMXzone Lightbox.
Top Slow Motion Movies Demo
Click on the images below to see the video in a Lightbox window
DMXzone Insects Gallery
Click on the images below to see the 3D ImageFlow Gallery in a Lightbox window
Nature Photo Collection Demo
Click on a thumb to open bigger image in a DMXzone Lightbox
DMXzone Abstract Demo
With the demo we'll show you a variety of custom made presets that has been applied for each image in your Lightbox.
Lightbox Demo
Click on a thumbnail
to open the Lightbox and get a great preview of the images. Customize
the look of your Lightbox by using different presets.
DMXzone Extensions Tour Demo
Experience the DMXzone Extensions Tour with our amazing DMXzone Lightbox
first ever Canvas based Lightbox control!
| « Features in Detail | Videos » |
Show your Images in a Cool Lightbox
With this movie we will show you how easily you can show the images from CSS Image Gallery in DMXzone Lightbox for greater user experience.
Playing Flash Video Files within the DMXzone Lightbox
With this movie we will show you how to play flash video files (flv) within DMX Lightbox, using the built in flash player.
Product Tour with Gallery and HTML Pages in DMXzone Lightbox
With this movie we will show you how easily you can create a product tour with gallery and html pages in popups, using the DMXzone Lightbox.
Dynamic Lightbox Movie
With this movie we will show you how easily you can create a dynamic DMXzone Lightbox by using a standard Dreamweaver recordset.
Amaze your web site visitors with the DMXzone Lightbox
With this movie we will show you some cool applications of DMXzone Lightbox in your website.
Working with Lightbox Presets Explorer
With this movie we will show you how easily you can work with Lightbox Presets Explorer configuring or editting already existing designs, called presets using the incredible user-friendly interface.
DMXzone Lightbox Preview Presentation
With this movie we will show you some more cool applications of DMXzone Lightbox in your website.
Creating a 3D ImageFlow Gallery within a Lightbox
With this movie we will show you how easily you can use 3D ImageFlow Gallery within DMXzone Lightbox
Combining DMXzone Lightbox and Flash Image Enhancer
With this movie we will show you how easily you can combine in Dreamweaver two of the most amazing DMXzone extensions - Flash Image Enhancer and DMXzone Lightbox, and give your users a great visual experience.
Creating a Gallery with a Cool Photo NavigationWith this movie we will show you how to pan and zoom across your photos using Active Photo Viewer within a cool DMXzone Lightbox window.
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| Type: | Suite |
|---|---|
| License: | Details... |
| Product: | Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4 |
| Platform: | Win XP/2000/2003/2008/7, Mac OS X 10.4+ |
| Browser: | Explorer 6, Explorer 7, Explorer 8, Opera 8, Opera 9, Firefox 2+, Opera 9.5, Safari 3+, Safari 4, Google Chrome |
| Screen Shot: | Details... |
| Tags: | lightbox, popup, window, photos, gallery, canvas, jquery |
| « Videos | History » |
DMXzone Lightbox 1.0.7
- iPad compatibility - now the DMXzone Lightbox works great on the iPad!
- Improved DMXzone Image resizer for Mac OSX
- Improved support for Windows 7
- Even faster resizing by using all the available cores of the CPU's
- Improved working in Dreamweaver templates
- Added compatibility with the new HTML5 Slideshow
Version 1.0.6
- Updated compatibility with other DMXzone extensions
- Improved file update and synchronization
Version 1.0.5
Improved Lightbox nesting
Improved procedure for updating Lighbox code and files
- Various stability fixes and improvements for Dreamweaver on Mac OSX
Version 1.0.4
Browser optimizations:
- Great browser performance optimizations delivering more than 30% speed improvement!
- Support for new image rendering CSS properties in the newest browsers. If you have one of those (Firefox 3.6+ or IE 7+) the Lightbox will be even faster!
- Dynamically loading of depended files only when needed – as the Lightbox uses many plugins to display different content types, those are now much better loaded on demand.
- Latest version of Flowplayer included to play FLV files
- PDF plug-in is smaller and much faster now
- New Animated Close effect
- New Preset called “simple”
- New drop shadow for browsers that supports it (FF 3+, Safari 3+, Chrome)
Dreamweaver optimizations:
- Performance optimizations in Dreamweaver – the Lightbox can be inserted and edited much faster now
- New method for uploading related files – now when related files are generated by the Lightbox, the user is presented a dialog containing list of new files and with the choice to upload them all at once. No more files to forget to upload.
- Improved “Lightbox Link” command
- Improved Preset switching and management
Version 1.0.3
- Support for Opera 10
- Allow Lightbox nesting up to four levels
- Index page smart duplicate filtering - if there are several links on the page, pointing to same destination, only one of them will be included at the index page
- New Content Type Parameter so you can include all type of content, like Youtube videos directly and the Lightbox will know how to display them
- The Control Lightbox behaviour is extended to include options for keyboard navigation
- Improved stability and open speed
Version 1.0.2
- Full Support for playing Flash Videos in the DMXzone Lightbox! All popular Flash Video formats can now be easily player in their own Lightbox and even linked in a gallery view!
- Auto generate needed embed code for playing Flash files (flv/swf)
- Full Support for displaying PDF files in the DMXzone Lightbox! You can now directly link a PDF file to be displayed in the Lightbox and it will load nicely inline!
- Improved auto resize of the DMXzone Lightbox when Flash SWF movies are loaded directly
- Improved loading on demand and caching of the DMXzone Lightbox files
- Various Security Optimizations
- Compatibility fixes for IE6
Version 1.0.1
- Improved the Open DMXzone Lightbox behavior
- Support for Spry Data components
- New option to show/hide index button
- New option for statusbar text
- Full international support, customizable texts improved the build-in Image Resizer for Mac OSX
- New option to specify Lightbox group (gallery) while inserting single items
- Improved Insert Lightbox Link command
Update Procedure:
- Open a page that uses DMXzone Lightbox
- You will see a progressbar that updates the new files
- You should see some alerts about updated files - make sure you upload them to your live server
If you experience any troubles with your browser try deleting your browser cashe to make sure that the new lightbox code is loaded.
| « Requirements |
George Petrov
George Petrov is the Founder of the highly successful Zones: DMXzone.com, FWzone.net, FLzone.com, CFzone.net, DNzone.com and FlashFiles.nl
He has developed the comprehensive Dynamic Zones Content Management System that is the brains driving them and constantly supports their online communities with his extensive and valuable knowledge.
He is a renowned web development 'Guru' who has written many articles and extension for Adobe's Dreamweaver.
George Petrov is also the CEO and Founder of Dynamic Zones and also very proud of his children Sofie, Victor and Alexander!
User Reviews
Total of 2 reviewsBest Pop-Up Extenstion There Is!
Written by marcus maddocks on April 5, 2010By far the best pop up extension that I've seen. Very easy to customize and the uses for this Lightbox are endless. As for the other review that comments on the heaviness of the design, the minimal design has a very clean border-less design. I give ...
very useful extension
Written by Reinhard Czwiertnia on December 10, 2009This is a real gem in the vast market of pop-up extensions. Its customizations are really very well thought and most useful. The only drawback is the emphasis on 'heavy' designs. I prefer the lean and clean layouts which are also there but perhaps a ...
