Add fancybox to Top Member Menu instead of...

Is there a possibility to use a fancybox to display the latest messages / notifications that are shown in the top member menu?

That's much nicer than the ugly drop down menu's that are standard in other social networks.

I want to use these effects and structure:
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/06/25/nifty-modal-window-effects/

Is this possible and wich files do i need to change?

Why would you want to turn a simple, efficient feature, into bloatware?  You should work for Microsoft.

We want to create something unique and different than the other sites. That's why :P
With our UI it's better to have a "fancybox" than a dropdown menu.

We want to use them all over the site with images, and videos as well. But that's a problem for later ;) 

First we need to set the notifications and the mail of the member menu in a fancybox.

This is going to require changes to the notifications code and an understanding of how fancybox works.  There is no quick answer to this one.

The fancy box we want to use is really simply. We work with this one also in Wordpress and Yoomla.
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/06/25/nifty-modal-window-effects/

If i go to the correct html file in templates/base/ and paste the code of the fancybox, does it work than or do i need to do changes in php files in inc/?

I think this is such a simple solution that it doesn't require that much work... 

 RE:

 OK... just go add your simple solution that doesn't require that much work to your template's extra_top_menu.html

It should be easy for a Freelance Web/App Design, Entrepreneur like yourself.

First step would be to clone your site and work on adding this feature to the clone site; that way you don't risk breaking the notifications of your production site.

After the whole day working on it, it finally works :) I shall post the steps i did in a later forum post for other members.

Thanks for sharing,