Well, for the non-designer, it seems to me that the carousel is one thing that really sets a site off. It takes what could be a long gallery of stuff, poorly organized, hard to sort through; and turns it into something that can be easily navigated and that presents information in a clear and understandable way.



The carousel, that very important piece of a website, is coded with Jquery, a useful little expansion of Javascript, used by most websites around for a variety of things.
Here, I thought I would first showcase a few great Jquery carousels, so you can really get a sense of not only what a carousel looks like, but the variety of ways in which it can be presented.












These are just a few of my favorite JQuery carousels. If there are any you really like, please post them in the comments below.