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/imageslide-plugin.html) 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,
