Free Responsive Content Sliders

By William Craig on October 10, 2014

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.

Showing off your content in a slider/slideshow can be a wonderfully engaging experience for your users. Where it shines best as a solid UI design pattern is in cases where you want to present a series of content while preserving the continuity of the viewing experience. Your users can simply sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Creating a content slider from scratch is fairly straightforward if you’ve got good experience in HTML, CSS and JS. But, regardless of your skills, you may still want to use a pre-built solution to speed up the implementation on a website.

When it comes to responsive sliders — ones that work well on multiple devices, whether it’s a small-screened smartphone or a desktop with a widescreen monitor — there’s just so much to choose from. To help those in search of a good responsive slider option, I’d like to share my list of the best free responsive content sliders out there right now.