Today we will continue overviews of available photo galleries. Next gallery will SmartGallery. This light-weight gallery will allow us to have thumbnail navigation, auto image scaling, 12 transition effects (to current moment). All this is done with the options of this gallery.
Best jQuery Slider Plugins & Tutorials with Demo
JQuery Superbox – Flexible modal window
jQuery Superbox! Jquery is a plugin for creating modal windows easily be adapted (eg, lighter).
It is an accessible script, uses the rel attribute of an element for triggering & href attribute is used for defining the source to be displayed.
To change the look & feel, it is enough to play with the CSS as no styles are set by default.
flickrGallery – jQuery Dynamic Flickr Photo Gallery with Slider
flickrGallery is an open-source photo gallery for jQuery that allows you to dynamically pull images from a photoset in Flickr.
The main functionalities of this gallery are a) to pull in images dynamically from a Flickr photoset, b) to dynamically grow or shrink the gallery area, depending on the size of the images and c) to offer a lightbox effect for small images.
Agile Carousel: A Highly-Flexible jQuery Slideshow Plugin
Agile Carousel is a jQuery plugin that allows us to create flexible (both in function and design) slideshows.
The plugin uses JSON for the data format of the slides. So, they can easily be provided remotely and integration with any other system (like CMSs) will be easier.
You can select between “fade” or “slide” as the transition effect, duration of the transitions and intervals between each slide can all be defined.
jQuery Content/Thumbnail slider : jsCarousel V2.0
jsCarousel v2.0 is a jquery slider plugin that slides contents in multi direction. Now it supports both horizontal and vertical orientation, see the screen shot below. jsCarousel v2.0 slider can be used as a feature content slider as well. You can put any kind of contents you want whether images, text, videos, news etc. it’s up to you. One interesting thing about jsCarousel v2.0 slider is that you can make simple image gallery with thumbnail support by using it. jsCarousel v2.0 slider plugin gives you the source of image via callback function, when you click on some image within slider. See Using jsCarousel v2.0 Slider section below to get an idea about using the callback function.
