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Here’s a cool piece of Javascript code which allows you to overlay an image zoom over the current page, without having to open a pop-up window to show the zoomed image.

“Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.”
Link: Lightbox JS

Here’s a link to a Wordpress Plugin which uses the same feature:
“It scans your posts for linked images and makes a nice overlay popup out of them. This is much better then linking to a new window oder even open a fullblown javascript popup. The Lighbox Popup shows a small preloader animation before showing the full image. Before i continue to talk about what it is, i better put on some example.”
Word Press Plugin: m3nt0r.de – beyond the net » Plugin: Lightbox

To see how it works, click on the image below:

[tags]Javascript, Wordpress, Plugin, image, zoom, overlay[/tags]

Just upgraded the blogs to Wordpress 2. My old theme broke during the upgrade option. I’ve reverted back to the Blix theme for now till I get the other theme working properly on WP2.

Wordpress 2 is up for download at:
http://wordpress.org/download/

Mambo 4.5 has in-built functions to create search engine friendly URL’s. Most search engines don’t index sites with query strings in the URL. To overcome this, most CMS systems have in-build systems that allow you to clean the URL to make it search engine friendly. For example take the following URLs as an example:
http://project.com/index.php

http://project.com/index.php?option=com_view&task=view&article=4

Most search engines don’t index the inner pages with URL’s like the one above since they assumes that it’s part of index.php. All Mambo pages refer to index.php, so most of the inner contents don’t get indexed on a search engine.
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