Best 10 jQuery Photo Slideshow / Gallery Plugins
1. jQuery lightBox plugin
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 jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar.
One of the easiest plugin to install for a new web design person.
2. prettyPhoto
prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also support for videos, flash, YouTube, iframes. It’s a full blown media lightbox.
It is very easy to setup, yet very flexible if you want to customize it a bit. Plus the script is compatible in every major browser, even IE6.
It also comes with useful APIs so prettyPhoto can be launched from nearly anywhere (yes, that includes Flash)!
3. Galleria
Galleria is a image gallery framework that is very easy to use, yet loaded with advanced customization options. With more than 5k daily downloads, it’s one of the most popular javascript image galleries available today.
4. SliderGallery plugin
This ‘product slider’ is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff..
5. s3Slider jQuery plugin
The s3Slider jQuery plugin is made by example of jd`s smooth slide show script. I needed something like that for jQuery (for my web site kruskica.net). Since i didnt find it after a small research i decided to build it by my self.
6. Easy Slider plugin
Easy Slider (as I call this plugin) enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css.
7. Galleriffic plugin
Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth. I am not so great at spelling, and it was much later that I realized that the more appropriate spellings would be Gallerific or Gallerrific, but is too late now for a name change, so Galleriffic remains.
8. Jquery multimedia portfolio plugin
Non obstrusive and accessible portfolio supporting multiple media : photos, video (flv), audio (mp3).
This plugin for jQuery will automatically detect the extension of each media and apply the adapted player.
9. Galleria 2 plugin
Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery unlike anything else. It can take a simple list of images and turn it into a foundation of multiple intelligent gallery designs, suitable for any project.
One of the easiest plugin to install for a new web design person.
10. Pirobox plugin
Hallo All and tnx for visiting this page, i’m happy to introduce the extended version of pirobox, now it support: inline html – content/html – swf,
it’s still a beta version and I gave up programming for IE6, I’ve changed most part of the code and added some new option as drag and drop and big images resize using jQuery UI extenctions.
