Free Responsive Content Sliders

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

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.

1. FlexSlider

FlexSlider

2. ResponsiveSlides.js

ResponsiveSlides.js

3. Glide.js

Glide.js

4. Owl Carousel

Owl Carousel

5. Sequence.js

Sequence.js

6. Slicebox

Slicebox

7. Blueberry

Blueberry

8. bxSlider

bxSlider

About the Author

Example of a website with a large background image: Jacob Gube is the founder of Six Revisions. He’s a front-end web developer by profession. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page or follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.