jQuery Image Galleries & Sliders – Best Of

Posted by Harshad

jQuery Image Galleries & Sliders – Best Of

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:16 AM PDT

jQuery image galleries and sliders are very common on portfolio sites and are also useful for any other type of site for displaying images and photos. Also, provide a good user experience and make viewing images more pleasant and intuitive on your website. With the advent of powerful JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, Prototype, Mootools etc., the quality of JavaScript based image galleries and slideshows have improved dramatically.

Today we’ve prepared for you a good list of the best jQuery image sliders and galleries plugins that can provide you with the resources that you need to get a gallery or a slider on your site.

Supersized

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Supersized is a fullscreen slidehow jQuery plugin. It supports image preloading with image cycling with transitioning effect.

Galleria

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Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded.

CU3ER Image Slider

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an image slider initially conceived to create 3D transitions between slides, turned out to be a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotator.

jQuery lightBox

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jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery’s selector.

Gallerific

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Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos.

Easy Slider

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Easy Slider is a jQuery plugin, you can set up your own options and is easy to implement.

S3 Slider : jQuery Image Gallery

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S3 Slider is a jQuery plugin with nice effects and with self image changing.

Anything Slider

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AnythingSlider is a jQuery Plugin with a lot of features( Slides can be anything, Navigation tabs are built and added dynamically …).

Coin Slider

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Coin Slider is a jQuery image slider with unique effects.

Cycle

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The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects.

Featured Content Slider

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Horinaja Plugin

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Horinaja is a ready to use slide show implementation, you can also use the mouse wheel to navigate between the slides.

jqFancy Transitions

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jqFancyTransitions is easy-to-use jQuery plugin for displaying your photos as slideshow with fancy transition effects.

jQueryGlobe – jQuery Plugin

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Looped Slider

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Nivo Slider

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Nivo Slider is a new jQuery plugin with great features : 9 unique transition effects, Keyboard Navigation and Simple and clean.

Piecemaker XML Gallery

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Piecemaker is an open source 3D Flash image rotator gallery.

Pretty Photo

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prettyPhoto is a jQuery based lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also add support for videos, flash, YouTube, iFrames.

Slide Deck

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Slide Deck is an easy to implement with a great design.

Thickbox

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ThickBox is written in JavaScript. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.