JQuery is one of the most widely popular JavaScript languages amongst developers; jQuery is an independent JavaScript library which is used to optimize a website with effective stunning animation and distinctive look without the use of Flash. There are so many jQuery plugins available on the internet but the most important question is how to find an appropriate plugin for a website and the particular use in which a user requires?
Most users spend an ample amount of time in exploring a myriad of such plugins and searching through Google pages within their quest of the appropriate jQuery plugins to suit their needs.
Here at STG, a users search will end ! We have conducted the necessary search and have collected a few of the best plugins for the month of August, 2011. The following plugins are unique, useful and users can implement them anywhere in their site for their use, if they need image or content sliders, image zooming effects, and for touch screen devices optimization.
With the help of these plugins every user can incorporate some pretty nifty and distinctive effects to their websites and give it an overall stunning look.
1. Diapo – Content Slider, Slide Show, & Mobile Ready
Diapo plugin is one of the best plugin which assists users to create beautiful content sliders with custom effects. Diapo has the ability to display images, videos and HTML contents in unique style. Diapo is capable of displaying slide shows along with pause buttons and helps users to build up pagination with next and previous buttons, users can browse the date in the plugin in both ways either automatic or manually.
Diapo plugin is mobile ready and includes features for mobile usage.
2. Mobiscroll – Wheel Scroller For Optimizing Date and Time
Mobiscroll is a wheel Scroller user control which helps users to optimize date and time for touch screen devices such as iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Motorola etc. Mobiscroll can be customized easily and it supports any kind of custom values and can even used as the alternative of select control such as dropdown list. The control is themable comes with nice looking color themes and users can change the appearance of CSS. It has been tested on iOS4, Android2.2 Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE9.
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3. Flexslider- Fully Responsive Jquery Slider Plugin
Flexslider is simple and semantic markup jQuery plugin with high resolution support and works on every available browser. The most beautiful feature of Flexslider is, users can navigate the plugin through keyboard, navigation buttons and it also supports touch swipe navigation. Flexslider has the ability to customize the animations such as slide and fade animations; users can use any html content between the unordered list and they will be transformed into the slides.
4. Circular Content Carousel
This plugin uses slider which holds the content along with their brief description, when users click on content a small box expands next to the content slider, where users can read and see the detail information related to the topic and slider yet navigates. If users don’t want to see the brief details along with its main topic, there is a close button by clicking on that close buttons it closes the expanded box and brings the animated content in its original position. This slider plugin is useful where users have to use little detailed contents in the slider along with images.
5. Quovolver
Quovolver is a simple jQuery plugin which is used for displaying the quotes in an impressive way, it takes a group of quotes and displays on users site in expressive and elegant way.
6. Image Zoom
This plugin allows user to zoom in few specific part of the image or pictures, with the help of image zoom users can fix the certain part of an images by placing different images in the main image, which they want to zoom in with. When users click on the certain portion of the images, the main image gets fade and the users get a closer look by enlarging another image. Users can get back to main image after clicking on back button.
