jQuery is becoming present in more Web 2.0 sites. jQuery slideshows or galleries take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. Here is a list of top options available for your website’s photo gallery.
- Galleria is javascript image gallery written as a plugin of jQuery. It uses simple html list to load the images on by one into a larger canvas. The best thing of galleria is that, it can create thumbnails for you. It is very user friendly and can be implemented easily without much knowledge of scripting.
- Display your portfolio items in a horizontal gallery view. A very cool jquery plugin. It is Non obstrusive and accessible portfolio supporting multiple media. It supports photos, multimedia content like flv, audio mp3 etc. It can automatically detect extension and display images/snapshots according to it. Here is a quick screen shot. Click on it for demo and download.
- Animate your images and display them as a gallery in space effect much like Apples time machine. These images will look like if they are in 3d space.
- Rotate your images in similar effect as on Apple’s website. You can rotate images, product pictures or anything you like.
- jQuery Gallery Scroller (jqGalScroll) takes list of images and creates a smooth scrolling photo gallery scrolling vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The plugin will also create pagination to allow you to flow through your photos.
- The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. Its implementation is based on the by Torsten Baldes, the by Matt Oakes, and the by Benjamin Sterling. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the and the .
- EOGallery is a web animated slideshow gallery maid with . It only uses basic jQuery functions and to display larger pictures. By the way, EOGallery is valid and almost , it has been tested on Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 6 and works even with non-javascript and/or non-css browsers.
- slideViewer checks for the number of images within your list, and dinamically creates a set of links to command (slide) you pictures.
- 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. LightBox is a plugin for . It was inspired in by Lokesh Dhakar.
- A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries
-Pirobox is another JS gallery script with the difference hatwrite by Diego Valobra.Take a look at his script,you can see that he used a few tricks to get his goal to create a good looking jQuery gallery.
- Popeye generates an inline image gallery from an unordered list of images. The gallery features clever inline image enlargement, i.e. the enlarged image stretches out over the site content without adding a visual overlay of the whole site. It stays fixed with one edge to its original coordinates, so that a sense of cohesiveness is created in the user interface and interaction.
- Present you images in stylish way. The links are unobtrusively highjacked to open the images in an inpage popup with drop shadow and border.
- This extremely lightweight JavaScript image gallery and slideshow script clocks in under 3kb packed and includes a number of cool features.
Do you have any plugins to add? Leave your recommendations in the comments below.
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