There are thousands of jQuery plugins, so I always try to show only the best; I don’t want to saturate with plugins and, especially, not discuss the low quality plugins.
Skitter is also good quality jQuery plugin, which enables you to create slideshows loaded with number of features, like speed, time, titles, etc. It requires just writing a few lines of code and is highly customizable through CSS.
When we plan of creating a website to showcase digital photographs, we prefer using CMS, which enables us to quickly create galleries, but the use of a simple jQuery plugin can really show wonders. Mosaiqy enables us to create images grids along with info, which is shown when the image is hovered and data loads without creating burden on website.
Sliders are being used quite excessively for the last few years to display more content using just a single space, and I think today it has become a very important part of any good web design.
Camera displays all this quite easily and is nicely created, which allows very simple customization and enhancement. Above all, it performs superbly on mobile phones, which are in use of lot of people today.
jQuery plugins are more or less useful, but the distinctive attribute is that they are truly spectacular while showcasing the photographs, and Fotorama, no doubt, is.
Fotorama performs well on both, PCs and mobile devices, like tablets, iPhone, iPad, etc, which is something that is definitely very good, as this will enable us connecting rest of the world without doing any weird things. By including arrows, you can enable the users to control their movements. Also, you can add different effects to customize it according to your own preferences.
While selecting any jQuery slider, we always consider the performance of the web using a slider because, sometimes, heavy load could significantly cause the delays in loading web pages .
Craftyslide is entirely contrary to the heavy sliders. It is light-weight and does not affect anything involved in the page load. Above all, it is really easy to use. You can configure it a lot, since it has many options for customization and transitions.
Generally, we have to select for jQuery plugins or MooTools, but there are many, which are compabible with both frameworks, like Revolver.
Revolver slider allows you to customize it to great extent, where you can select from various types of transitions to slide different contents and add external control buttons. The documentation is well written, which requires less than 5 Kb; so it’s a superb tool for sure.
Day by day, more and more jQuery plugins are being introduced with extensive support for using CSS3 and HTML5 and Sequence is one of the best examples of such jQuery plugins.
Sequence enables us to give the effects to the content we want to use and moves between different transitions in a pretty style using CSS3. The way it performs is far better than ordinary plugins. Also, it supports all major browsers and is fully customizable; so I would recommend it fully.
jQuery Easy Slides is a simple, smart and one of the simplest jQuery plugins for creating slideshows. You can get most out of it by integrating images with the text content. Easy Slides shows an image for a while and then moves to the next image. I found it very quick and easy in implementation.
MobilyNotes enables displaying images or any type of html content in a stacked form by rotating them. It can be customized by using options of autoplay and auto-generated buttons.
You can use it to display your photo albums as a slider, where the user will select any album from the stock of beautiful images. Moreover, you can put images creating random display with some slick animations.
Using slideshows is a fairly popular trend in the web designing today and with jQuery, it has become more simple to implement a slideshow. More and more jquery sliders are coming up and it seems there is a jQuery slider released each week.
Slidy is another jQuery plugin you must consider using in your next website to embed a presentation to give users a taste of a smooth slideshow.
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