Displaying list information with SPServices
SPServices is a client-side jQuery library that you can use to read and write data to SharePoint lists with javascript. We are using version 0.6.2 of the SPServices library. Both the SPServices and jQuery (1.6.4) libraries are included in the master page, you don't need to add them again to your custom code.
Let's say you have the following list in your site, it has two columns called "Fruit" and "Color" containing the names of fruit and their corresponding colors: