jQuery Cycle - Custom Pager & Captions

jQuery Cycle - Custom Pager & Captions

So I'm brand new to javascript and some of this may be more basic than I know, but I appreciate any advice you can give me.

I'm wanting to create a 'news' slider kind of thing and have got a basic one started. The main things I would like are twofold:

1. Remove all text from Pager links - no numbers, just small grey boxes  SOLVED "pagerAnchorBuilder"

2. Have captions on top of images - similar to how my Pager is currently.  I would like the captions to be able to come in after the image has come in (is this possible?) and be styled with CSS as a separate 'box'.

Where my slider is:   dev.woundcareadvantage.com

Cycle Code:
  1. $(function() {
  2.     $('#hmpg_slideshow').before('<div id="shownav">').cycle({
  3.         fx:     'fade',
  4.         speed:  'slow',
  5.         timeout: 4500,
  6.         pager:  '#shownav',
  7. pagerAnchorBuilder: function(index, el) {
  8. return '<a href="#">&nbsp;</a>'; // whatever markup you want
  9. }
  10.     });
  11. });