The presentation seems to be coming together. JQuery animation has some problems, so as happened before when I tried to use JQuery, I've ended up using less and less of it, and writing more of my own code. I have a slide object and a slide list object, and the list manages slide timing and transitions, and I've set it up so that the original slide <div>s are placed on the page where you want them to end up, using @style attributes. The display time for a particular slide is placed in its title attribute (a hack, but not actually breaking any rules), and the slides are shown in the order of the <div>s in the page. That means you can create the slide show by editing HTML, and not worry much about the script.