Lightbox customization (PHP programming tips)

Current version of Lightbox (widely used in web development) has an intricate navigation in the image gallery. At first a user trys to guess where to show “previous” or “next” buttons. This navigation isn’t user friendly. Here are some small modifications for creating a simple navigation:

The best way for creating it in your image gallery is overriding the code without direct changes in the lightbox source code. It’s profitable when it is necessary to update the source code.

The waterfall model

The waterfall model (one of the approaches to software development or web development project) describes a linear development method that is often considered the classic approach to the systems development life cycle. This model is a sequential model, used to create different kinds of software, where project development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of software development requirements analysis, UI design, software implementation, project verification and software maintenance. The process itself can be divided into different phases, depending on the IT project or other web development requirements.