You can use Fancybox as a lightbox alternative on your website. FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page. It can be configured to use a single photo, gallery, ajax content, video or any html you can think of.
The lightbox photo will resize [...]

This jQuery plugin is great for displaying images in a slide show format. You can have multiple slideshows on the same page and it allows you to add a text overlay that fades in and fades out over the photos in the slide show. You can set the timing, text placeholder location and even the [...]

Website Real Esate is at such a premium, this jQuery sliding login panel can definitely save your layout space AND wow your website visitors. The first version was done in MooTools, but I’m more of a jQuery guy so this would be my choice. When accessing the tutorial, you may want to view the earlier [...]

Many of us have image intensive websites, fortunately there are also jQuery plugins like Lazy Load. This interesting plugin will delay the loading of image and will also provide a smooth fade in effect as well.
Check out the Fade In Image Effect
Learn How to Use LazyLoader
As mentioned,
It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. [...]