As the devices by which websites are accessed go from desktop and laptop to smaller tablets and smartphones, website designers must now create a site that can adapt to different screen sizes and resolutions, plus look great, too. One proven solution is a responsive content slider, which provides a central area for showcasing various amounts of text and images, while automatically accommodating the viewing requirements of any device.
Responsive content sliders are seeing a major uptick in usage because they allow website designers to display content in a more organized and interesting manner while still maintaining their creative freedom over the slider design. Most image and content sliders are customizable and provide features and options that enhance website design tools.
The diversity of responsive sliders makes them adaptable as navigation menus or to display e-commerce products, banners, portfolios, corporate products or services, company timelines, image galleries with or without text, 3D animation, videos, mixed content displays, or any large amount of information that needs to be conveyed in a limited space. They also promote interaction by turning a static website into an active, animated web page.
While there is already a large number of free and fee-based responsive content sliders, and still more being developed on an ongoing basis, some are more notable than others for their rich features and varied options. These top 10 responsive content sliders are particularly impressive for their comprehensive functionality, extensive capabilities, impressive flexibility and unique features.
Layer Slide
The powerful and features-rich LayerSlider is one of the more advanced responsive
jQuery content slider plug-ins available. It comes with 12 customizable skins,
or you can create your own skin, and three navigation types: bullets,
thumbnails, or thumbnails displayed if hovering on bullets. The slider can be
used with any HTML content, such as text, images, forms, embedded videos and
flash content. Most impressive are the more than 200 transitions, including 2D
and 3D animations that slide, fade, cross-fade, spin, fly rows or columns in
any direction, and make turns in specified degrees. LayerSlider, which supports
all major browsers, also features five displaying modes, including responsive
and full width, that automatically resize images, text and video layers. This
responsive content slider offers a lot of unique features, such as auto preview
and auto play images for YouTube and Vimeo videos, auto pause of the slideshow
when the video is playing, logo feature with link, linking sub-layers to other
layers or a URL and multiple sliders on one page, to name a few. A powerful API
is built-in and the slider is SEO friendly and offers touch control for mobile
devices.
Sequence
The Sequence jQuery
slider is best for customization because it does not have a default theme. But
for those looking for pre-designed themes, several free and premium ones are
available, among them modern slide, Apple style, split slide and the Ken Burns
effect that pans and zooms across still images. Content is easily added to a
frame by inserting HTML in applicable list items. The advanced CSS3 transitions
provide numerous behavior options for animations and transition effects. Over
40 options allow for plenty of creativity. The fully responsive content slider
works on older browsers and supports parallax scrolling and touch devices.
OneSlider
OneSlider is a jQuery plug-in responsive slider
featuring interactive content. One of the best attributes of OneSlider is that
content can be added to each slider and accented with interactive features and
varied effects. The fully responsive slider offers numerous transition effects,
infinite slide rotation, autoplay with delay time, four positions for short
content, sub content options for each slide and touch swipe for mobile devices.
Its unlimited slides and versatility make OneSlider ideal for banners, image
galleries, or items.
Parallax
Four versions of the Parallax slider are available: Classic, Perpetuum
Mobile, Mouse Interaction and Ultra. Among the differences between each version
are greater behavior options for elements, such as rotary motion, perpetuum
move, or continuous move for layers; mouse interaction options; and customized
behaviors for multiple background elements. All of the responsive jQuery
plug-in versions offer bullet and thumbnail predefined skins, touch screen
navigation and responsive design. And all have the option of full width or
fixed dimensions. The layered elements feature allows for unlimited layers of
text or images, plus text can be animated from any direction. A nice feature is
the ability to include YouTube, Vimeo and HTML 5.
Orbit
Orbit ,
from Zurb Foundation 3, is one of the most features-rich responsive content
sliders. Navigation options include bullets or image thumbnails. It also offers
full HTML captions where styles, lists and links can be added, as well as
transition effects that include fade and horizontal or vertical slide at
desired speeds. The JavaScript image and content slider is one of only a few
that offers the option of using all content with no images on a slide or
combining content with images.
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