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Nice website... but please, oh please... don't put the content of the website in a lightbox. Don't limit my access to your content to a 800x600 modal.

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Agreed. We were actually debating this for a while :) Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.

If you really must use them, make them at least 80% width and height and change the opacity of the black overlay from 0.81 to 0.6. Have the purple header snap to the top, and have it slim down to something like 20px height and hide the title when you are scrolled down.

http://snag.gy/LKED2.jpg vs http://snag.gy/ROfRO.jpg

Also, test those things on mobile. Modals are tricky on mobile.

Thank you again. This feedback is really helpful.

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