So, I've spent what seems like years trying to toss up between the Lightbox and Thickbox modules on Drupal. I like them both, but finally opted for Lightbox2 and have been using that on most of my sites for the last year or so. Lightbox is a great little module and works well across the board. However, after recently updating the most excellent Ubercart module I read an interesting thread on the ubercart forum, extolling the virtues of the new lightbox kid-on-the-block - colorbox. This new module was vocally supported for lots of little reasons so I decided to jump ship and give it a try.

I like it. This also gave me a valid reason to search for a sexy photo to demo the colorbox and I discovered Ms. Stacey Keibler, shown right, I had to look at this bikini photo quite a lot... I can tell you... /me continues to gibber and drool until mental function resumes...

• Install the Drupal Colorbox module in sites/all/modules
• Install the colorbox plugin in the sites/all/libraries folder
• enable it and i just works.

Very cool... and it possibly feels quicker rendering the images than lightbox2.

I'm going to run colorbox on projex.com for a week or so and try to gain a real opinion on real life use of colorbox as a replacement for lightbox2... we shall see which one I end up using ;)