NiceFade: A jQuery slideshow plugin

DOM structure:

ul or ol.nicefade_container 	li (these are the slides) ul or ol.nicefade_index-list (same length as items in slideshow) (optional) 	li (these are the slide indices) 		a 

Options:

• animationSpeed - speed of slideshow animation in milliseconds
• animationDelay - delay between animations in milliseconds
• indexList - ul or ol with each child li representing their own slide in the slideshow
• initialIndex - the slideshow's starting point
• currentClass - the class of the current slideshow item and current index item
• beforeSlideChange - function that gets called before the slides begin to change
• afterSlideChange - function that gets called after the slides finish changing

Public functions:

Note: automated slide animation stops when you manually move to a specific slide

• next() - advance the slideshow one step forward
• previous() - move the slideshow one step backward
• seek( index ) - change the visible slide to the one at index @index
• stop() - stop the slideshow's automated animation
• slideshow_length() - the number of elements in the slideshow
• current_slide() - the slide currently being shown
• target_slide() - the slide that is targeted to fade in (via click or automation)