You can make your website to responsive layout for that purpose there are lot of css frameworks available on web like bootstrap, foundation, HTML5 boilerplate etc.. Do you want to make your website by also supporting the mobile analytics? Then this would be a major problem in achieving the goal.
Yes, it is easy to implement responsive layout to a website by using certain media queries for different resolution to resize the overall layout and the elements of the webpage to resize for the viewing device resolution. We can resize most of the web elements like text, images, forms, menu and the list will go on. But imagine if you have a banner rotator/image slider in your website, then do you know how to resize that slider/rotator?
For that continue reading this article, in this article we are going to give you the information related to some of the free and premium JQuery banner rotator/image sliders which already adapted the responsive design technique and coming with some cool animation effects, CSS3 transitions. So these will help you building your website fully responsive and attractive including the sliders.
Everybody like the word FREE!! So we will first checkout some of the best free plug-ins available to use.
ResponsiveSlides.js
ResponsiveSlides.js is a tiny JQuery plug-in create the responsive slider by using the $lt;li> elements in a <ul>. It has support for wider range of browsers including IE6. The biggest difference to other sliders is the plugin file size, its just 1.4kb when minified and gzipped. It is having the best features like fully responsive, smaller plug-in file size, CSS3 transitions with Javascript fallbacks, and works in most of the mobile and desktop browsers.
ResponsiveSlidesJS jQuery Slider Plugin
Fotorama
Fotorama is a simple, stunning and powerful Javascript Gallery plugin available to download and use freely. This plugin is very easy to install and customize. It has the support for all the major browsers including the IE6+. This is one of the best plugin suitable for wordpress. This can be very useful when you use for Main page header, responsive blog, product showcase, advertisement scroller or use as a simple gallery.
photorama Responsive JQuery Slider Plugin
Elastislide responsive carousel
Elastislide responsive carousel is one of the best image carousels with responsive layout. This plugin is built in JQuery. You can have the carousel either horizontally or vertically in your website. It will automatically adapt to the available resolution of the viewing device. For getting this in your website just you need to insert the carousel’s structure into a fluid width container, it will give you the carousel with fluid layout.
Elastislide responsive Jquery carousel plugin
Nivo Slider
The Nivo Slider popular as the most beautiful and easy to use slider on the market. Its Completely free and totally open source, there literally is no better way to make your website look totally stunning. It is coming with 16 most awesome transition effects, this slider is buit based on the standards & semantics and it is absolutely free to use and experiment.
Nivo Slider Responsive JQuery Slider Plugin
Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel
Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail JQuery Carousel plugin
Blueberry jQuery image slider
Blueberry is an experimental opensource jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.
Blueberry responsive jQuery image slider
Responsive jQuery Slideshow
Responsive jQuery Slideshow a responsive jQuery slideshow which scales to the viewing device screen.
Responsive jQuery Slideshow plugin
Galleria JavaScript image gallery
Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework. The aim is to simplify the process of creating professional image galleries for the web and mobile devices. This plugin comes with the features like NO PROGRAMMING SKILLS REQUIRED, FLICKR, PICASA, YOUTUBE AND VIMEO READY, RESPONSIVE, IPHONE, IPAD & TOUCH SUPPORT and ONE CORE, MULTIPLE THEMES.
Galleria JavaScript responsive image gallery plugin
Supersized
Do you want to show the images in fullscreen? Then this is the best gallery plugin for your purpose. This plugin will nicely resize your images fit with the user’s device whatever resolution it has.
Supersized responsive JQuery slider Plugin
RefineSlide
RefineSlide is one of the very few responsive sliders which are having support for 3D transform and it also have the capability to show captions on each individual slide.
RefineSlide Responsive JQuery Slider Plugin
WOW Slider
WOW Slider is a responsive jQuery image slider with amazing visual effects (Rotate, Blur, Flip, Blast, Fly, Blinds, Squares, Slices, Basic, Fade, Ken Burns, Stack, Stack vertical and Basic linear) and tons of professionally made templates. WOW Slider is packed with a point-and-click wizard to create fantastic sliders in a matter of seconds without coding and image editing. WordPress slider plugin and Joomla slider module are available also.
wowslider responsive jQuery Slider Plugin
FlexSlider 2
Another awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin.
flexslider responsive jQuery slider plugin
Photoswipe
Photoswipe is one build from mobile first approach. Images will automatically rescale to fit orientations, portrait or landscape and users are treated with both a full gallery view and individual image views that they can easily swipe through. It works perfectly for desktop browsers too.
photoswipe responsive jQuery Slider Plugin
wmuSlider
A jQuery responsive slider with touch support and AJAX image gallery.
wmuslider responsive jQuery Slider Plugin
Camera
Camera slideshow is an open source project, based on Diapo slideshow (http://www.pixedelic.com/plugins/diapo, no more supported, sorry), but improved a lot. You can suggest changes or improvements if you want. You can download it and use for free, you can also include it in your projects and sell it as part of a bigger work
camera responsive jquery slider plugin
CSScience
CSScience is a slider which is completely built with CSS and without using the javascript. All the animations and the functionality have been managed only by CSS. That’s great right?
csscience responsive jquery plugin
Sequence
Sequence.js is a refreshing and modern take on website sliders. Using just HTML and CSS, Sequence allows you to create your own responsive slider with unique transitional styles. No instance of Sequence need ever be the same. There are no limitations and no in-built themes. Supported in modern desktop browsers, mobile browsers and even in old versions of Internet Explorer via a traditional fallback theme.
sequence responsive jquery slider plugin
RSlider
If are not a great programmer and you don’t want to build anything from scratch then RSlider is for you. This is a JQuery plugin with responsive layout to show images/content with categories in your website. You only need to do some minor configuration to get set go with this plugin.
rslide responsive jquery slider plugin
iView Slider
iView Slider is a jQuery plugin which comes with 35 transition effects and it can slide any type of content like images, html, videos. It’s also support the mobile gestures on IOS, Android and any other touch enabled devices. This plugin also optimized for SEO.
iviewslider responsive jquery slider plugin
Slit Slider
slitslider responsive jquery slider plugin
Here comes the premium JQuery Plugins
RoyalSlider
RoyalSlider is one of the best premium responsive JQuery/Javascript slider plugin. This plugin is implemented with the features like animated captions, touch support for mobile devices , 50+ js options, 4 skins with photoshop files, 9 pre-built templates for easy customization, Semantic and SEO friendly, native fullscreen, video support, deep linking and the best is it comes with lifetime support & free updates.
royalslider jquery
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Boutique carousel
Boutique carousel is a unique customizable jQuery image slider with perspective and smooth interactions. For getting the slider in your website simply link to the JavaScript and CSS files and apply it to your HTML element like other jQuery plugins. Customize the settings and CSS to match your style and purpose. Some of the main features of this pluin is Unlimited scrolling, Unlimited number of images, Customizable, 14 Example styles/usages out of the box, Optional headers, Optional description text, Optional hyperlink, Optional autoplay (paused on mouse-over), Keyboard, support, Lightbox support, Full documentation and examples included.
Boutiquecarousel jquery slider
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AsyncSlider
AsyncSlider is an innovative and interesting jQuery content slider with asynchronous move of each elements in each slide. Plenty of options are available to customize and make your slider unique to other ones. There are two direction types, horizontally – which moves content from left to the right or right to the left, and vertically – which moves content from top to the bottom or from bottom to the top. Motion of asynchronous elements can be done in random or sequential way (first-to-last element).AsyncSlider jquery slider
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Showcase – jQuery plugin
ShowCase is a jquery plug-in that is designed to demonstrate works of your portfolio website, products of your on-line shop or images of your photo gallery. You are able to set up rows and columns, change size of blocks, animation speed, delay and easing effect as well as direction (vertical or horizontal), pause time, navigation and auto start settings.View Demo / Download / View more details
Saloon – The jQuery Banner Rotator Plugin
Saloon – The jQuery Banner Rotator animates your image and text slides with transition effects of the wide library. Easy installation, state-of-the-art transitions and text animations define the freshline style. See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. Give each slider a description and more elements to transport your message.saloon jquery slider
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XML Timeline Animation Banner
This plugin is developed in view with the mobile devices. The features included in this plugin are all options are xml based, CSS3 animations using transitions, advanced timeline sequesncing, cross browser/platform, multiple banners in one page, one xml multiple banner sizes, auto slice the excesive images etc..XML-Timeline-Animation-Banner
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Cute Slider – 3D & 2D HTML5 Image Slider
Cute Slider is a unique and easy to use slider with awesome 3D and 2D transition effects, captions, 4 ready to use templates, video (youtube and vimeo) support and more impressive features which written with pure object oriented javascript. It has easy to implement and search engine optimized html markup. If you want this plugin for your wordpress website then there is wordpress version is also available here.Cute jquery Slider
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CSS3 Cube Slider – jQuery 3D slider
Cube Slider uses CSS3 transform property for creating 3d cubes elements and animating then in a cube slider. Using css3 images can be putted in a three dimensional space. If the browser does not support css3 transform then the slider falls back in a standard jquery slider that uses jquery easing plugin for animation images. Due to CSS3 still to complete as standard this plugins in css3 mode is best on Chrome and Safari, meanwhile works well in firefox with some small screen bugs.CSS3 Cube jquery Slider
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Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin
Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin is the premium way of using a slider in your website. A combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider, Text Animations and Responsive rebuilding defines this slider. Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. Give each slider some captions to transport your message. Use your Ken Burns Animated banner elements with the possibility of playing YouTube and Vimeo clips in a special detail view with describing text.
Responsive KenBurner jquery Slider
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BLADES jQuery – A jQuery Banner Rotator
BLADES jQuery is a flexible jQuery banner rotator that makes an impression. Easy to customize with several options including 5 unique transitions, BLADES jQuery is the type of banner that can easily headline your next project.
BLADES jQuery slider
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jQuery Banner Rotator / Content Slider / Carousel
ProSlide is a plugin for mootools which can display a slideshow with fantastic views along with scrolling and mousewheel feature, with ProSlide you can display anything you want, such as your articles or products existing on your site.
jquery banner rotator
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Paradigm Slider Joomla jQuery Plugin
The premium way of using a slider in your Joomla website. A combination of Parallax Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations defines this slider. Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. Give each slider a parallax caption to transport your message. Touch swipe for iOS and Android mobile devices is of course included. So it works on every modern browser (including IE7 /8) and on mobile devices.Paradigm jquery Slider
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jQuery pinterest style gallery plugin
Cube Slider uses CSS3 transform property for creating 3d cubes elements and animating then in a cube slider. Using css3 images can be putted in a three dimensional space. If the browser does not support css3 transform then the slider falls back in a standard jquery slider that uses jquery easing plugin for animation images. Due to CSS3 still to complete as standard this plugins in css3 mode is best on Chrome and Safari, meanwhile works well in firefox with some small screen bugs.jQuery pinterest style slider gallery
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HTML5 Fullscreen Gallery
This is a full HTML5 script. But don’t worry because it works just as good in older Internet Explorer browsers. This script is flexible and perfect feature for showcasing great photography while displaying subtle text/description on the bottom. Using this script is really simple. It comes with emotion evoking piano background music and a minimalistic two level sticky menu down the bottom. All colors can be altered via the CSS stylesheet.
HTML5 Fullscreen Gallery
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UnoSlider – Responsive Touch Enabled Slider
UnoSlider is a jQuery content slider plugin with an unlimited transition animations (really, unlimited!) and a wide range of a features like touch enabled, mobile optimized interface, animated layers, responsiveness and a lot of other features.
unoslider jquery
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J.B.Slider – Standalone
J.B.Slider is easy to use jQuery image slider with description box and button link for further reading.
J.B.Slider jquery
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jQuery Carousel Evolution
jQuery Carousel Evolution is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily create powerfull carousel slider using HTML markup. The plugin also provides an easy to use API which will allow to further enhance the functionality of the carousel. Great for screenshoot slider.
jQuery Carousel Evolution jquery slider
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FrameIt – Responsive jQuery Plugin
FrameIt Responsive jQuery Plugin
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Translucent – Responsive Banner Rotator / Slider
This is a jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow with translucent background set for caption.Supports Responsive and fluid layouts.
Supports touch swipe navigation on iPad and Android tablets.
8 example variations included with source package.
Around 55 plugin settings included for deeper customization.
The captions can be customized by both plugin settings as well as CSS .
Translucent Responsive Banner Rotator Slider
View Demo / Download / View more detailsWe hope you enjoyed by seeing the great collection of sliders/rotators/carousels/galleries plugins and this list of plug-ins will be helpful in building the responsive themes for your website. If you have any suggestions, please let us know through the comments, so we will try to publish another article in the near future!!
Courtesy: http://blog.platinastudio.com/40-best-free-premium-jqueryjavascript-sliders-banner-rotators-carousels-and-galleries-plugins/
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