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:

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<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.