Slideshows are an integral part of a portfolio or photography website ,so is the importance of jquery for its coding. Anyways slideshows can be important to any website to showcase not only images but popular posts too ,to get user attention. Jquery with just very little coding can give you the freedom of making galleries very easily and fast.
With jquery building a modern website elements has become easy. Without jquery images may either popup in an external window or a new tab,which may be little annoying for users who are viewing your image gallery . We have now many amazing plugins pre-made for jquery and just adding required code to the site is enough. Last time we have collected some 20 Jquery File uploader plugins and today we have Best jQuery Slideshow Plugins.
jQuery Slideshow Plugins
ShineTime
A Kick-Ass New jQuery & CSS3 Gallery With Animated Shine Effects.
TN3 Gallery
TN3 Gallery is a jQuery image gallery with slideshow, transitions effects, multiple album options, CSS skinning and much more. It’s compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers.
Beautiful Photo Stack Gallery
With jQuery and CSS3 properties for the rotated image effect and also using webkit-box-reflect property in order to mirror the boxes in the album view ,check out the demo to see this wonderful effect of gallery.
PikaChoose
PikaChoose is a lightweight slideshow plugin that can be used for carousels and lightboxes. It’s highly customizable and can be integrated with Fancybox.
Cloud Carousel – A 3d Carousel
The carousel features realistic perspective. Many 3d carousels only apply perspective scaling to the size of the images, not their positions. This results in disproportionate gaps appearing between items as they shrink in the distance which looks odd.
Slides
Slides is a free slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.
Nivo Slider with Default Theme
The Nivo Slider is world renowned as the most beautiful and easy to use slider on the market. Completely free and totally open source, there literally is no better way to make your website look totally stunning.
SlideDeck
SlideDeck lets you organize any type of content into a beautiful, customizable and user-friendly slideshow.
Smooth Div Scroll
Smooth Div Scroll is a jQuery plugin that scrolls content horizontally left or right.
Coin Slider
jQuery Image Slider with Unique Effects.
jQuery.popeye 2.0
jQuery.popeye is an advanced image gallery script built on the JavaScript library jQuery. Use it to save space when displaying a collection of images and offer your users a nice and elegant way to show a big version of your images without leaving the page flow.
Easy Slider jQuery Plugin
Another professional jQuery image slider plugin which has got similar features like numeric navigation and continuous scroll.
Galleriffic
Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth.
Supersized
Supersized is a fullscreen background slideshow built using the jQuery library.
Sideways
A simple, yet elegant fullscreen image gallery created with the jQuery framework and some simple CSS.
prettyPhoto
prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also support for videos, flash, YouTube, iframes and ajax. It’s a full blown media lightbox.
Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin
Space is often limited and therefore we thought of a slick solution to integrate a miniature image gallery that does not occupy a lot of space.
ColorBox
A lightweight customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3+