newbie in need of help!!

newbie in need of help!!

Hi.

I am trying to put together an image gallery.
The gallery has three thumbs and a main image.

http://synsthsoundz.com/impwood/index.html (still looks crap on IE)

The images are in sets of 3 so i need next and previous buttons to navigate through these different sets. This is the first time i have used jquery and i really dont know where to start.

One approach i could try would involve stacking divs on top of each other and changing the z-index to reveal the different sets. However, i feel this may be a bit long winded and inefficient.

Can anyone sugguest a better way of doing this?

My second question...
I am trying to crossfade the main images as you may have noticed.

Im using the toggle() function. The first click fades out the first image and fades in the second image (determined by the href attribute).
The second click fades out the second image and fades in the first image (again determined by the href attribute).

The problem is that sometimes they crossfade and sometimes they dont and it appears to be random.

Does anyone know a better way of crossfading between images?

Thanks. [/code]