JavaScript frameworks like jQuery have become highly popular nowadays. These frameworks have substantially improved the quality of JavaScript based image galleries and slideshows. jQuery is cross browser JavaScript library which was released around five years back. It is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. jQuery is by approximately 43% of the 10,000 most visited websites. It is a free and open source software.

Here are some of the most brilliant jQuery Plug-ins which can be used for creating image galleries and slideshows for website –

If you want to showcase images in a very stylish way then you should go for Zoomimage. It shows images in a very good popup with a drop shadow and border. Its prominent features are – Preloads images, the images can be grouped in galleries, scales the image to fit the viewport, keyboard gallery navigation.

It is named so because it displays image in a sequential manner. jQuery Panel Gallery generates new images panel by panel. It is extremely light weight. It can be easily customized using several options including: ability to choose the direction in which the transition occurs from left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top; you can set the initial delay before the transitions begin; set the transitions to loop or stop after the last image; set the time it takes for each panel to appear; and set the delay between the images.

This plug-in will transform a list of images into a flash like image gallery. Thumbnail navigation only shows up when you hover over the image.

This plug-in scrolls content smoothly and horizontally in left or right direction. It does not limit the scrolling to distinct steps. There are no visible buttons or links since the scrolling is done using hotspots within the scrollable area or via auto scrolling.It can scroll any html content and if you use images, you’ll end up with a nice smoothly scrolling slideshow.

This plug-in displays image in an easy to use manner. It also offers a lot of options for customization.

This plug-in is a robust and cross browser fade in slideshow scrip. Ultimate Fade in slide show incorporates some of the most requested features all rolled into one.

This plug – in supports keyboard shortcuts through the images. A nice image viewer can be created with the help of thick box gallery.

It creates an overlay image viewer. With jQuery LightBox minimal coding effort is required.

It is a plug-in for embedding flickr photos into a web page. It generates a slideshow whose size varies with the size of the image. It also has a thumbnail navigation.

It is the easiest plug-in for sliding images and content. Easy slider is very simple and easy to use. It lets images slide either horizontally or vertically. It can be styled using CSS. One can create an unordered list with the contents to be slided.

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