$slideshow = {  
        context: false,  
        tabs: false,  
        timeout: 17000,      // time before next slide appears (in ms)  
        slideSpeed: 1000,   // time it takes to slide in each slide (in ms)  
        tabSpeed: 300,      // time it takes to slide in each slide (in ms) when clicking through tabs  
        fx: 'scrollLeft',   // the slide effect to use  
          
        init: function() {  
           // set the context to help speed up selectors/improve performance  
           this.context = $('#sliderPanel');  
             
           // set tabs to current hard coded navigation items  
           this.tabs = $('ul.slidesNav li', this.context);  
             
           // remove hard coded navigation items from DOM   
           // because they aren't hooked up to jQuery cycle  
           this.tabs.remove();  
             
           // prepare slideshow and jQuery cycle tabs  
           this.prepareSlideshow();  
       },  
         
       prepareSlideshow: function() {  
           // initialise the jquery cycle plugin -  
           // for information on the options set below go to:   
           // http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/options.html  
           $("div.slides > ul", $slideshow.context).cycle({  
               fx: $slideshow.fx,  
               timeout: $slideshow.timeout,  
               speed: $slideshow.slideSpeed,  
               fastOnEvent: $slideshow.tabSpeed,  
               pager: $("ul.slidesNav", $slideshow.context),  
               pagerAnchorBuilder: $slideshow.prepareTabs,  
               before: $slideshow.activateTab,  
               pauseOnPagerHover: true,  
               pause: true  
           });              
       },  
         
       prepareTabs: function(i, slide) {  
           // return markup from hardcoded tabs for use as jQuery cycle tabs  
           // (attaches necessary jQuery cycle events to tabs)  
           return $slideshow.tabs.eq(i);  
       },  
     
       activateTab: function(currentSlide, nextSlide) {  
           // get the active tab  
           var activeTab = $('a[href="#' + nextSlide.id + '"]', $slideshow.context); 
            
           // if there is an active tab 
           if(activeTab.length) { 
               // remove active styling from all other tabs 
               $slideshow.tabs.removeClass('on'); 
                
               // add active styling to active button 
               activeTab.parent().addClass('on');  
           }              
       }              
   };  
     
     
   $(function() {  
       // initialise the slideshow when the DOM is ready  
       $slideshow.init();  
   });