Hi Roryreiff - would these plugins help?
http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/ http://code.google.com/p/agile-carousel/ On Apr 15, 11:43 am, roryreiff <roryre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to start developing a simple interactive image gallery for a > home page. My goal is for it to behave similar to SlideViewer > (http://www.gcmingati.net/wordpress/wp-content/lab/jquery/imagestrip/imagesli...) > in it's functionality, except that instead of clicking on a list of > numbers, there will be navigation controls( arrow left, arrow right) > to go forwards or backwards in the images. I also want to have > accompanying text that appears in a div overlay. > > I am thinking that best way to do this is to have jQuery interacting > with an XML file that contains the image urls and the accompanying > text? I also want the behavior that on page load I prefetch all the > images and text so that the navigation between images is seamless (at > least prefetch a certain number ahead). Does anyone have input on how > to approach this? > > Thanks,