Our simple slideshow is nice and will be adequate for some situations, but we often want or need more features and flexibility out of our sliders and slideshows. There's no shortage of jQuery plugins out there to create sliders and slideshows. To avoid adding lots of unused code to projects, try to find the simplest slider that will do the job.

The Basic Slider, documented at and available for download at http://www.basic-slider.com/, is a relative newcomer to the scene. It's flexible, simple to use, and easy to style. It's a great fit for responsive designs. It can hold any kind of content, so we're not limited to images. We could use text, videos, images with text, or any other combination we can think up. The Basic Slider has got about a dozen options you can adjust, and for many projects, you'll find that's more than enough.