President of WebFX. Bill has over 25 years of experience in the Internet marketing industry specializing in SEO, UX, information architecture, marketing automation and more. William’s background in scientific computing and education from Shippensburg and MIT provided the foundation for MarketingCloudFX and other key research and development projects at WebFX.
JavaScript frameworks have become very popular in the recent years by making the creation of dynamic effects much easier. Lightweight, used in the WordPress and Drupal core, jQuery is now one of the most used JavaScript libraries around. The following list of jQuery plugins will help you to improve the usability of your website or web applications by enhancing the display of your images.
1. s3 Slider
s3 Slider Demonstration page. A simple way to add smooth image slideshows and showcases on your website.
2. jQuery Image Strip
jQuery Image Strip Demonstration page. Nice little image viewer that uses fancy visual effects. This can be of great use for displaying various views of a product in an e-commerce website.
3. jQuery Thumbs
Easy thumbnails creation with jQuery, jQuery Thumb dynamically wraps images and/or link images with a div.
4. jCrop
jCrop Demonstration page. Quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine.
5. Image preview
Image preview Demonstration page. Create image previews with this accessible and easy to implement script.
6. EOGallery
Web animated slideshow gallery made with jQuery.
7. jCarousel Lite
jCarousel Lite Demonstration page. Carousel script with jQuery. Navigate images or HTML in a carousel-style widget, lightweight and flexible, customizable to fit most needs.
8. Thickbox
Thickbox Demonstration page. Webpage UI dialog widget using the jQuery library, it shows any type of content in a modal box.
9. PanView
To let your visitors view details of a big image. Great for letting them have a better view of an artwork, map or panorama. PanView creates a fixed size div in which the user can move the bigger image.
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin that supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects.