Help using scrollTop

Help using scrollTop

Hi there, I have just started learning jQuery and I have part of the system working already with my n00b skills but I'm now stuff trying to do something.

Basically, I have a site which is all one long page, very WEB 2 design. I have navigation buttons on each of the 5 sections that make the entire long (vertical) website. I'm looking for  way so that when a visitor clicks on one of the navigation links, it will scroll smoothly to my anchor, which looks something like this:

  1. <a name="contactMe"></a>
I'm thinking I can use scrollTop to do it somehow but none of the solutions have worked. I need a way to scroll to those links, whether is up or down.

Can anybody help me or point me to the right direction? I have seen some examples of this being done with a plugin but I don't know how to make it work with the click event.

Thanks for reading...