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20 simple, light but cool JavaScript plugins

People are terribly wrong thinking that a website is a static entity. Many consider that once a website is made online, it doesn’t need maintenance. The reality proves that the situation is very different; in fact keeping a website updated requires many constant endeavors. Much more, the small tweaks seem to be part of the multitude of factors that massively contribute to the success of a website.
The design world is very dynamic and the designers hardly manage to resist in this climate. However, the final outcome is a bigger number of better websites and this is very beneficial for Internet users. In this context, we may conclude that anyone willing to have a heavily visited website must take care of each aspect and correct any downside. It’s not simple at all, but there are some modalities to constantly improve a website. One of the simplest, but effective ways to do so consists in adding various JavaScript plugins. Some of these are very common, while others are less used, but the results may be very appreciated by users.
On the other hand, it’s not simple to search for various plugins…or maybe it’s not that complicated, one thing we know for sure, this is definitely a time consuming activity. As usual, because we care about your time we have established a list of 20 simple, light and cool JavaScript plugins for your website that will surely delight the visitors.

Background Colorful Generator

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Any website owner wants to bring something new to his/her online presence on a daily basis, but it’s pretty impossible and maybe the changes will put the users in difficulty. This plugin offers the perfect balance: it allows adding, on a daily basis, something new without negatively affecting the user experience. Background Colorful Generator as the name already says it, is responsible for creating background colors. With just few tweaks, a new background may be added daily.

Progress of Page Reading

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More and more websites have included a blog. Something that will be great for the users is to have an indicator showing how much they read from a blog post. Content Progress is a light JavaScript plugin that brilliantly does this job and it may be tailored to perfectly fit the website design.

Super Dialog

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A dialog modal window is a subtle and neglected website component. Altogether, if other webmasters neglect it, you shouldn’t make the same mistake. This JavaScript plugin allows creating a wonderful flow dialog window that will captivate the mind of the viewers. The small details make the big difference.

Swirl Slider

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A modern website must be very dynamic and the best solution to improve the dynamism of a website is the use of images sliders. Swirl Slider not only substantially improves the dynamism, but due to the interesting sliding effects it offers a very original touch. Check the effects in the preview page and please let me know if you agree with me!

Expander

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Of course, a slider has its contribution to the dynamism of a website, but it’s not enough. This plugin is very useful, but it also impresses with the nice dynamic effects. Its aim is to better visualize the images: the user clicks on a thumbnail and immediately a larger image is revealed. It’s responsive and the transition effects are really cool, therefore it’s the best plugin for a portfolio or an image gallery.

Morphing Slogan

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Another modality of making a website more dynamic and original is the use of Slogan Morphing JavaScript plugin. It creates dynamic images from the words of a certain text. However, since words can’t fully explain the beauty of the effects, I advise you to check the previews and you will definitely understand what I mean!

Arkansas

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We are daily assaulted with tons of information and the brain has a limited capacity of processing. As a result, a plugin that better structures the information is always welcomed. Arkansas is doing it very well and it deserves a place into this list.

alBox

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alBox is a JavaScript plugin that is very light, but its effects over the user experience are very powerful. The best thing about alBox is the fact that it contains tons of different variants of images that are based on CSS3 transitions.

Magic Tweets

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Social media has been here for many years and it was integrated not only in the online environment, but in our lives, too. This plugin has a limited area where it may be used, but in some situations it’s pure gold. It creates a Twitter timeline; so for the ones that are very involved in social media it’s very useful. Taking into account that it is touch enabled, this plugin becomes more and more attractive for every webmaster.

Metro Sidebar

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A sidebar is a good thing that one could use to impress his / her potential viewers. Metro Sidebar is a great plugin that it’s aimed to create stunning sidebars. The modality of displaying the information into the sidebar is very customizable and it won’t take more than some minutes.

Google Maps with Infowindow

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Each and one of us used Google Maps and we all know that it sometimes doesn’t assure the best user experience. This helpful plugin was created, in order to help people search for a place, let’s say a restaurant. It creates info windows on the maps, so it will be way easier for the user to identify the local they want to visit.

Rating Plugin

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A modality of having a stronger relationship with the website visitors and keep them loyal is to interact with them and heed their requirements. This plugin is very useful for blogs or for written content centered websites because it allows the users to rate their impressions. It’s simple and effective, isn’t it?

Auto Menu

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The navigational menu is a capital part of any website. Auto Menu is a plugin that is able to create a wonderful menu. Definitely, many other plugins can do the same thing, but this one creates stunning menus in just few minutes. Beside these, the ones using this plugin have tons of options and it’s not required for them to know HTML or CSS.

Select Text

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Social media buttons are a constant presence for almost all the websites. Altogether, this plugin offers a more interesting possibility of interacting via Twitter. The idea is simple: the user selects a text, a phrase or just few words and all he / she will have to do is to click on the Twitter icon that appears once the selection is made. In this way, the Twitterverse is richer with a new interesting tweet!

HTML5 Scratch Card

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If you want to create some buzz around your blog, then this plugin may be a good solution. HTML5 Scratch Card allows creating cards that should be scratched by the users to see if they gained a prize. It’s enjoyable and funny, so it will relax the users.

Clarity

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A music player becomes something usual for the newest online presence. I hate the automatic music players, but there are many cases when a good one is needed. Clarity is a very interesting music player that without any doubt, will delight the users.

Page Loader

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Some potential visitors doesn’t have a strong Internet connection or some webpages are heavier and need much to time to load. The Internet users doesn’t have patience and they will search for other websites unless they aren’t captivated with something cool. An interesting pre-loader is a good solution and this plugin will do this job wonderfully.

Flat Modern Notifications

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Another modality of making a website more attractive and personal with the user is the use of notifications. Taking into account that flat design is everywhere, the notifications must be in accordance with this approach. It’s the case of this wonderful plugin that gives to the user a high degree of customization.

Image Gallery

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The Internet is full of plugins to create stunning image galleries but still not many allow creating impressive 3D galleries. The ones interested in having a great 3D visualization of the image should use this plugin. Beside these, it’s very light and the user doesn’t need to know any coding in order to install it.

Check Plagiarism

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We know that Google hates plagiarism and it’s a disaster to be penalized by them. This plugin helps a lot in fighting against duplicated content. In some situations, it may prove being a one of the best purchasing, so check it and eventually buy it.
I hope that all the above plugins to help the readers to make more attractive their websites. It will be great to know which one was more helpful and the most useful reward for our team is to share the post with your friends.

20 stunning sliders to impress your visitors

The huge endeavors of the web design community sometimes act as a boomerang for its members. The websites are looking good and are satisfying the highest demands, therefore any new website should be crafted, at least, at the same standards. Under these circumstances the role of a web designer is pretty ingrate, he must always work better and better. Taking into account that the competition is really fierce, I guess that no one should envy a designer.
Altogether, maintaining the high standards might not be enough! It sounds crazy, but it’s true! The Internet is full of quality websites and people consider these being the norm and not the exception! As a result, a website must be original. The next logical question is to ask yourself how to create an original website.
Unfortunately, no designer or blogger may provide a solution to create an original website; there are only generalities and nothing more. The single resource of originality is the mind of the designer. In conclusion, only you are responsible for the originality of the website freshly launched.
Because I believe I might have disappointed you, I have created something that will make you a little happier. I made a list of 20 stunning sliders that aren’t totally unseen, but yet these are rarely used in spite of their top quality. It’s enough to install these and the chances of having a more standing apart website are considerable higher!

Gold Slider

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Gold Slider is a responsive slider that is suitable for blogs. It handles four articles in a sliding area but it might be customized to slide more posts. Personally, I think that the variant with four post is the best solution. It adds a high level of dynamism and I think that the viewers will be impressed by the dynamic effects of the slider.

Layer Slider

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It was aforementioned that the sliders from this list aren’t very popular, but Layer Slider is really famous. Still I added it here because it has so many impressive sliding effects, that are hardly used. Practically, this slider offers hundreds of impressive effects to a website owner. I tried various solutions for some minutes and I didn’t finish all the possibilities. (Warning, it’s addictive!)

Seria

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Seria is a jQuery vertical slideshow plugin that is very discrete, simple and pleasant. It may be used for displaying products, photos, news or blog posts. It’s responsive and retina ready, therefore your mobile visitors won’t encounter any issue.

Background Pro

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Making frequent design changes isn’t a very good idea, but from time to time is better to bring something fresh. This plugin is the perfect solution: it creates a slideshow of images that may work as a background. Once these images are wisely chosen, the activation of this plugin will really enhance a website.

Skew Slider

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Skewslider is a plugin that will surely make your website stand apart. The images showcased are skewed and it also adds a plus of dynamism. The plugin may be easily customized according to the website owner’s needs; so you have all the reasons to try it.

Infinity Slider

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A part of the sliders aren’t fully responsive and this fact affects negatively the mobile users. Infinity Slider is specially created for the mobile users and in addition to that it works perfectly for desktop users, too. Besides that, it has tons of effects to select from and the custom possibilities are endless.

Fullscreen Background Slider

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Fullscreen Background Slider is a very powerful plugin that helps the webmasters to make the websites backgrounds more attractive. There are some solid reasons to add it in this list: 36 animation effects, 20 build-in patterns, customizable animation time, responsive and mobile friendly…Pretty convincing, isn’t it?

Storyline 3D

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Storyline 3D Slider is relatively new to the market, but I am sure that it will be a big hit. It’s one of the best plugins that create 3D effects and beside that, the customization options are endless. 19 color schemes, 8 scroll and 6 slide effects are enough to offer tons of standing apart sliding effects.

Mighty slider

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Mighty Slider is very complex, before finding out about it I was not aware of the fact that there are so many sliding possibilities. It works even with videos, YouTube and Vimeo, it is device friendly & cross browser and it’s fully responsive. Check all its sliding options and surely it will be your next acquisition.

Banner Rotator

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This plugin is perfect for the situations when the webmaster wants to display quotes or testimonials, at the same time it’s also suitable for images. It’s simple, discrete, responsive, and it has the potential to enhance a website.

jQuerry Banner Rotator

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jQuerry Banner Rotator is a plugin that impresses due to the nice transitional effects and due to the powerful customization system. The user has the possibility of setting a timer, a different transition per slide and many other features that will make the website stand apart.

Filter Slider

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This plugin was added into this list because of the cool effects – it displays when hovering the image. The idea is simple and pleasant: when the user hover an image, it’s rendered a sepia, grayscale, light saturate etc. version of it.

Rollbar

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Rollbar is a very discrete but effective plugin. Once installed, it replaces the standard browser scrollbar. It sounds strange, but it’s very efficient. Instead of scrolling an entire webpage, the user just scrolls a couple of images or slides. The plugin is responsive and for small displays it may represent a very efficient solution.

iCarousel

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The plugin is very suitable for modern and tech inspired websites. iCarousel is a lightweight jQuery plugin that creates wonderful carousel showcasing images. It has touch, mouse and keyboard support, it’s responsive, it works perfectly both on iOS and Android and it’s extremely easy to customize. I think that by checking the live preview you will be captivated by the effects.

Melon HTML5

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This plugin works as an emulator; if you need to display images as an iMac, Mac Cinema, iPad or iPhone then it’s the best tool. It may be tailored to the user’s needs, including the effects of the images displayed.

3D slider

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The entire web design community considers that the dynamism is a feature that will be dramatically improved in the next years. An important role in making more dynamic websites is reserved for sliders. Featured 3D Slider is a slider that will surely improve the dynamism of the website…please check it yourself!

Feature Slider Plugin

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Feature Slider Plugin is another slider that obtains a good mark at the originality and dynamism chapter. I think that is suitable for tech related websites or for the situations when the main public target is constituted from young people.

Blades 3D

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Blades 3D is another very original plugin. The images are flipped using 3D effects, but it may be available in the “classic format”, too. The flipping effects are very attractive and surely the viewers will be captivated by these.

Super 7

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I purposely let at the end of the post the most impressive slider. Super 7 is a much appreciated plugin and it has the “power” to considerably improve the layout of a website. The huge advantage of this plugin is that the customization options are unlimited.

I hope that those needing a sliding plugin will find this post very useful. The sliders may significantly improve a website and it’s a big mistake to neglect them.

Best New JavaScript Plugins of 2012

Instant Website and Blog Translator
1. Instant Website & Blog Translator

Instead of having to rely on Google Translate or any other external website translator, why not install a fast JavaScript plugin translator right on your webpage? This is what Instant Website & Blog Translator offers to developers or for those in search of an effective and versatile translation solution that their international visitors can easily use. This unique JavaScript plug-in automatically translates all of your website’s text, from buttons and headers to entire paragraphs. This plug-in also comes with free access to a translation service that offers unlimited websites and unlimited translations, with support for all ISO 639 -1 languages. It’s easy to set up and easy to translate websites without any additional server requests.

jNotify Plugin
2. jNotify Plugin

jQuery Purr Notify is an extraordinarily simple alert and notification plug-in that is just as simple to implement and customize. It offers notification elements that are completely styled in CSS and extraordinarily easy to modify. With this plug-in, you get common alerts, dialogue prompts success messages and error messages. You have these messages say whatever you want and appear unobtrusively on your webpages. jQuery Purr Notify is compatible with all browsers, plus it also comes with free support.

IA Slider - jQuery Image Gallery Plugin
3. IA Slider – jQuery Image Plugin

If you’re looking for a slider that offers stunning visual effects, then look no further. This latest addition offers a fantastic way to display images and other content while enjoying cross browser compatibility and excellent performance. It also offers support for a lot of unique features, including the “Ken Burns” camera effect and a blur effect. IA Slider features support for all browsers, and it also offers support for Vimeo and YouTube videos. It even comes with a PSD template for further customization possibilities. While IA Slider offers a plethora of features, it maintains a svelte footprint when it comes to resources.

jCountdown Mega Package
4. jCountdown Mega Package

If you need to count down to a special event, here’s the plug-in that would do just that and much more. The jCountdown Mega Package features several highly customizable countdown timers that are easy to implement and extraordinarily easy to customize. You have a vast number of jQuery properties at your disposal to edit as you see fit, giving you the ability to change the style, color, time zone and many other aspects of your timer. The jCountdown Mega Package also comes with a layered PSD file used to create more unique countdown timer variations.

jQuery ViewBox HTML5 media browser
5. jQuery ViewBox HTML5 Revolution – Media Browser

Here’s an excellent jQuery LightBox script that offers excellent support for YouTube, Vimeo and other popular video services. jQuery ViewBox HTML5 Revolution is a fast and straightforward media browser capable of displaying both photo galleries and videos, thanks in large part to its AJAX and jQuery underpinnings. Features include a responsive ViewBox window, built-in JW Player, keyboard support and the ability to create your own custom controls. Thanks to CSS, you have easy customization at your fingertips. With Facebook, Twitter and Google+ buttons, visitors get to interact and share your videos and photos with others.

Dimension 3D Portfolio Gallery
6. Dimension 3D Portfolio Gallery

If you’re looking for a simple yet effective portfolio gallery, you should take a look at this one. Based mostly on JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5, Dimension 3D Portfolio Gallery happens to be the perfect platform to show off your work thanks to its relative simplicity. The outstanding 3D animated filters selection as plenty of motion and depth to otherwise static galleries, offering visitors a dynamic and energetic display of your hard work. The advanced features of Dimension 3D Portfolio Gallery are compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 10. Visitors using other browsers will see a non-3D portfolio gallery, instead.

Grooveplayer - jQuery Music Player
7. Grooveplayer – jQuery Music Player

We’ve covered lots of great musician themes and band templates, and know that music lovers need great music playing options. Welcome Grooveplayer, a new JavaScript plugin, that has an awesome Grooveshark look with easy installation that allows custom background album art. Play your MP3 and other multimedia with Grooveplayer.

jQuery Push Menu
8. jQuery Push Menu

Created with a high-tech, sophisticated style in mind, Push Menu offers a cross-browser compliant menu with plenty of unique features. Not only do you get fantastic animated sub menus that operate courtesy of jQuery, you also get the ability to modify these menus with amazing ease. Push Menu also allows you to easily embed videos, images and other elements. This plug-in is also capable of working on a variety of mobile browsers. If you’re in need of a dynamic menu that offers an excellent combination of performance and utility, this is the one that should catch your interest.

Points Calculator
9. Points Calculator

If you are in need of a quick and simple calculator to display points and rewards, here’s one that does the trick. This plug-in is capable of working with iPad and other mobile devices. With Points Calculator, you can easily create a point formula and use it to tally up points for various rewards and other items. You don’t have to have any knowledge of jQuery to modify any aspect of the Points Calculator – it is that easy to modify. The included showcase allows unlimited HTML content and items. It also comes with a full PSD file for further customization.

jQuery Slider Responsive JavaScript Plugin
10. jQuery Slider Ken Burns Effect Fully Responsive

Here is another jQuery plug-in that utilizes the famous “Ken Burns” effect, named for the technique used extensively by American documentarian Ken Burns. This plug-in comes in four variations that offer different viewpoints: fixed dimensions, full width, full screen and sidebar banners. There is also a responsive version available that easily accommodates touch screen navigation on mobile devices.

jQuery Slick Menu for iDevices
11. jQuery Slick Menu

jQuery Slick Menu offers a lightweight and configurable animated menu that can be embedded on almost any website with relative ease. There are plenty of configurations available – developers can change fonts, colors and even the animation settings. This menu is also capable of accommodating touchscreen navigation on mobile devices.

MWConsole - jQuery UI Console Widget
12. MWConsole – jQuery UI Console Widget

MWConsole is a lightweight jQuery user interface widget that you can use to create a console widget for your HTML pages. It features an easy-to-understand user interface and command list, with command history. All you have to do is enter a command and press “enter.”

Interactive Maze Background
13. Interactive Maze Background

If you’re searching for a fun little time-waster, you should probably consider this interesting interactive maze script. It works on just about any website, and it sits quietly in the background, so it doesn’t intrude on any other content. This interactive maze can even solve itself automatically whenever it’s left alone. To get involved, all you have to do is click on the background and move the avatar using the arrow keys. Every time the page is loaded, it loads a completely new maze. Your visitors will definitely get a kick out of this interesting and challenging background game.

3D Pie Chart JavaScript Plugin
14. 3D Pie Chart with JavaScript

You don’t have to rely on Flash for pie charts any longer. Cool 3D Pie Chart is a useful plug-in that uses JavaScript and jQuery to create vivid and flexible pie charts in both static and animated variants. The best thing about this plug-in is that you don’t have to have knowledge in JavaScript or VML to make any modifications. It’s extraordinarily easy to customize this pie chart to your exact specifications. You can even change the position, depth, height and radius of the pie, along with the colors and tooltip backgrounds.

JavaScript Pinterest Plugin
15. jQuery pinterest style gallery plugin

Pinterest and jQuery come together to create an JavaScript plugin that shows off your favorite images in a popular format. Not only do you get a gallery that closely mimics the famous Pinterest layout, you also get plenty of support for YouTube and Vimeo video. You won’t have to worry about older browsers not showing the CSS3 animations correctly, since this plug-in gracefully degrades when viewed in unsupported browsers. Other features include optional callback animation delay and animation transition style. This plug-in gives you the opportunity to add a spectacular gallery to just about any website you have, and definitely qualifies as one of the best JavaScript plugins of 2012.

15 best Javascript plugins of 2012

RoyalSlider - Touch Enabled jQuery Image Gallery
RoyalSlider Touch-Enabled jQuery Image Gallery

The RoyalSlider is a powerhouse Javascript plugin full of image gallery scripts featuring a staggering eleven different templates coded in jQuery, encompassing virtually every gallery design found on the web. Every template offers a responsive interface and a clear way to navigate the contained content, and each comes with a variety of skins and styles. Programmers will be happy to hear that the full source code is provided without obfuscation, so they can edit the code themselves if they choose to. This package is guaranteed to have an image gallery perfectly suited to your needs.

jQuery Banner Rotator Slideshow
jQuery Banner Rotator/Slideshow

This is a beautifully designed banner rotator using jQuery. This plugin offers a remarkable level of customization on an image to image basis. This means for every new image displayed, the owner can specify everything from the type of animated transition to use to optional text description overlays and the target hyperlink. The slideshow can be navigated in various modes; along with the standard next and previous buttons, users can skip to specific images using either the numbered buttons or thumbnails. Owners can also choose from a variety of mouseover behaviors; either pausing the rotation, displaying the attached text description, or triggering the display of the intuitive navigation controls.

Estro - jQuery Ken Burns Slider
Estro – jQuery Ken Burns & swipe effect slider

This is an eye catching slider that can serve as a centerpiece in any application. It grabs the user’s attention with elegant animation which slowly glides the content in a given direction. This Javascript plugin preserves the content layout if Javascript is disabled, and it still exposes all the content to search engines. It also features animated captions and a fully skinnable interface to suit your own style. Estro offers a truly unique display feature with an almost cinematic quality and it is not going to go unnoticed.

jQuery - Lightbox Evolution
jQuery Lightbox Evolution

Lightbox Evolution is an ubiquitous script used to elegantly overlay a wide variety of HTML contents. It is popularly used to showcase enlarged images or videos, without navigating the user away from the main content source. This plugin can be used in so many ways that they simply cannot all be listed here; this is the script of choice for anyone who wants to make creative use of space to display rich content.

LayerSlider - Parallax Effect Slider
LayerSlider – The Parallax Effect Slider

This is an incredibly feature rich slider that performs sliding animations on any number of HTML elements. Amazingly, this includes not only images and text blocks, but also embedded videos and flash content that can be set to play automatically, which helps make it one of the best Javascript plugins of 2012. The key feature of this software is the treatment of every component as a separate layer, each of which can be customized and animated individually. Using this plugin you can create stunning presentations and dazzle your user with active and immersive content.

jQuery Banner Rotator, Silder, and Carousel
jQuery Banner Rotator / Content Slider / Carousel

This is a package of five equally attractive content display scripts that effectively cover all combinations of display needs. Each individual script is feature rich and presents the relevant contents in a unique and elegant layout. Also provided with each script is a set of three predefined skins, with the ability to use your own if you desire. This is the plugin of choice for those who have varying forms of content that they want to be presented beautifully and in an easily navigable manner.

Advanced Slider - jQuery XML Slider
Advanced Slider – jQuery XML slider

This is a jQuery utilizing slider tool which offers the option to use either HTML or XML, with an impressive assortment of unique features. For example, rather than demand the thumbnails be static images or numbered buttons for navigation, this plugin allows thumbnails to contain any HTML content in each. Rather than predefining a limited number of slide transitions, it allows the owner to customize an enormous number of properties to control the transitions themselves. The Advanced Slider is the right choice for those who want complete mastery over how their content is displayed.

Mega Menu Complete
Mega Menu Complete Set

This is a comprehensive set of menu creation plugins. The owner can specify what behavior opens menu items, and how the content is opened; hovering or clicking, combined with fading, sliding or simply popping in. The content of every menu item can be defined with a flexible column based system, and can include any and all HTML content. The appearance of the menus can be fully customized and colored with ease. This is an excellent product for those seeking to offer their users an attractive, simple and flawless way to navigate their content.

Avia Slider - jQuery Slideshow
AviaSlider – jQuery Slideshow

The Avia image slider boasts a set of uniquely designed transition effects unavailable to its competitors which makes use of built in jQuery functions; given the number of generic sliders on the market, this is a very important feature to take into consideration. It provides the necessary options to create your own effects as well. It integrates neatly with Lightbox in a variety of customizable ways, enabling varied modes of navigation and display. It is very reactive to user input and pauses animations upon interaction. If being noticed as original is important, this is the right plugin to go with.

Drop Menu - Interactive jQuery Menu Plugin
Drop Menu

Drop Menu is a plugin to display unusual and interesting interactive menus to website users. It features a broad spectrum of menu animations and everything can be fully styled and customized using CSS. It provides support for both horizontal and vertical menus, making it a versatile script to use in many positions. It works perfectly in all browsers, and three fully worked examples are included to get the owner started. Drop Menu is a wise plugin choice for those who want a beautiful menu without the hassle of coding their own user interface.

Smooth Zoom Pan - jQuery Image Viewer
Smooth Zoom Pan – jQuery Image Viewer

This is a unique product to let your users zoom into and explore your images in many ways. It features an intuitive interface that responds appropriately to mouse scrolling, double clicks and button presses. Zooming can be precisely controlled using various parameters to customize the animations. The most remarkable feature is the ability to add links to landmarks within the image which smoothly transition the user to the specified position. These landmarks can also be set to appear on the image itself, either permanently or at certain zoom levels.

TouchCarousel - jQuery Content Scroller and Slider
TouchCarousel – jQuery Content Scroller and Slider

TouchCarousel is a simple but powerful content scroller with a straightforward set of navigation options. It is one of few plugins to handle grab and drag mouse movements in an elegant and fluid fashion. Slides can support any and all HTML content of any size. One unique feature is the optional use of keyboard controls, which could prove a powerful addition if utilized properly. This is a no-frills script that is easy to use, but with a powerful and well documented API available for advanced users to experiment with.

Sexy Slider - jQuery Plugin
Sexy Slider

This is a simplified jQuery plugin to add visually stunning sliders to your website. What it lacks in opportunities for customization, it more than makes up for in ease of implementation, and includes particularly verbose documentation. Owners can select from a set of predefined transition effects and define text boxes to appear with their images. This is an excellent plugin choice for someone who doesn’t have the time or experience to delve too deeply into customizing their display.

jQuery Slider Evolution
jQuery Slider Evolution

This is another simple but effective slider with impressive visuals. It has a wide assortment of transition effects to choose from, and supports the embedding of videos as well. The content it exposes is still search engine friendly. Multiple sliders can easily be embedded in a page without interference. Slider Evolution is an effortless plugin to use, even for inexperienced coders, and produces professional quality results.

jQuery Horizontal Image Scroller with Lightbox
jQuery Horizontal Image Scroller w/ Lightbox

This is a beautiful image scroller used to display a variable number of images simultaneously. They can be browsed smoothly using many options; either the next and previous buttons, the bottom scrollbar, or scrolling with the mouse. This particular plugin sets itself apart from other sliders by integrating seamlessly with Lightbox, such that each item can trigger Lightbox popups, and the gallery can still be browsed from this video.