// when the DOM is ready...
$(document).ready(function () {
                  
                  var $panels = $('#slider .scrollContainer > div');
                  var $container = $('#slider .scrollContainer');
                  
                  // if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
                  // of the container
                  var horizontal = true;
                  
                  // float the panels left if we're going horizontal
                  if (horizontal) {
                  $panels.css({
                              'float' : 'left',
                              'position' : 'relative' // IE fix to ensure overflow is hidden
                              });
                  
                  // calculate a new width for the container (so it holds all panels)
                  $container.css('width', $panels[0].offsetWidth * $panels.length);
                  }
                  
                  // collect the scroll object, at the same time apply the hidden overflow
                  // to remove the default scrollbars that will appear
                  var $scroll = $('#slider .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');
                  
                  
                  // handle nav selection
                  function selectNav() {
                  $(this)
                  .parents('tr:first')
                    .find('td')
                      .removeClass('selected')
                      .addClass('unselected')
                    .end()
                  .end()
                  .parents('td')
                    .removeClass('unselected')
                    .addClass('selected');
                  }
                  
                  $('.navigation').find('a').click(selectNav);
                  
                  // go find the navigation link that has this target and select the nav
                  function trigger(data) {
                  var el = $('.navigation').find('a[href$="' + data.id + '"]').get(0);
                  selectNav.call(el);
                  }
                  
                  if (window.location.hash) {
                  trigger({ id : window.location.hash.substr(1) });
                  } else {
                  $('tr.navigation a:first').click();
                  }
                  
                  // offset is used to move to *exactly* the right place, since I'm using
                  // padding on my example, I need to subtract the amount of padding to
                  // the offset.  Try removing this to get a good idea of the effect
                  var offset = parseInt((horizontal ? 
                                         $container.css('paddingTop') : 
                                         $container.css('paddingLeft')) 
                                        || 0) * -1;
                  
                  
                  var scrollOptions = {
                  target: $scroll, // the element that has the overflow
                  
                  // can be a selector which will be relative to the target
                  items: $panels,
                  
                  navigation: '.navigation a',
                  
                  // selectors are NOT relative to document, i.e. make sure they're unique
                  prev: 'img.left', 
                  next: 'img.right',
                  
                  // allow the scroll effect to run both directions
                  axis: 'xy',
                  
                  onAfter: trigger, // our final callback
                  
                  offset: offset,
                  
                  // duration of the sliding effect
                  duration: 500,
                  
                  // easing - can be used with the easing plugin: 
                  // http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
                  easing: 'swing'
                  };
                  
                  // apply serialScroll to the slider - we chose this plugin because it 
                  // supports// the indexed next and previous scroll along with hooking 
                  // in to our navigation.
                  $('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);
                  
                  // now apply localScroll to hook any other arbitrary links to trigger 
                  // the effect
                  $.localScroll(scrollOptions);
                  
                  // finally, if the URL has a hash, move the slider in to position, 
                  // setting the duration to 1 because I don't want it to scroll in the
                  // very first page load.  We don't always need this, but it ensures
                  // the positioning is absolutely spot on when the pages loads.
                  scrollOptions.duration = 1;
                  $.localScroll.hash(scrollOptions);
                  
                  });