3 jQuery Gallery Options

As much as I love jQuery I had to share some of the reasons why. jQuery is a very robust javascript library that can be used as the basis for putting some very cool and unique effects in websites. The best part about jQuery is how easy it is to use for those who do not have the technical or programing knowledge it would take to create those effects otherwise.

Here are some of the ways you can implement a photo gallery into your site making it more than just static elements, others have already done the work and make the code freely available for others who wish to apply such scripts. Of course if you are experienced in javascript, php, html, and css it is very likely you will be able to easily modify these further to make it completely unique for your site.

1) Galleria:

Galleria is very cool in that all you need to do is put the images into an unordered list with one image per list element, and the script will do the remainder of the work. This includes creating the thumbnails, rotating through the images, and adding manual control so visitors can control the image scroll themselves.

2) Slider Gallery:

The slider gallery creates a horizontal scroll effect like what you see on the Mac site. The down side is that it does require a bit more work but it is a cool effect to have on any site.

3) jQuery Cycle Plugin:

This plugin allows you to create a rotation of images with a number of different effects all easily set up. On the site for the plugin you can find a description of how to set up each of the rotations effects and functioning examples so that you can see how it works before hand.