$slideshow = {  
      context: false,  
        tabs: false,  
        timeout: 2000,      // time before next slide appears (in ms)  
        slideSpeed: 2000,   // time it takes to slide in each slide (in ms)  
        tabSpeed: 300,      // time it takes to slide in each slide (in ms) when clicking through tabs  
      fx: 'scrollLeft',   // the slide effect to use  
      
       init: function() {  
          // set the context to help speed up selectors/improve performance  
           this.context = $('#slideshow');  
          // set tabs to current hard coded navigation items  
          this.tabs = $('ul.slides-nav li', this.context);  
     
          // remove hard coded navigation items from DOM  
           // because they aren't hooked up to jQuery cycle  
           this.tabs.remove();  
     
           // prepare slideshow and jQuery cycle tabs  
           this.prepareSlideshow();  
       },  
    
       prepareSlideshow: function() {  
           // initialise the jquery cycle plugin -  
           // for information on the options set below go to:  
           // http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/options.html  
           $("div.slides > ul", $slideshow.context).cycle({
              fx: $slideshow.fx,  
               timeout: $slideshow.timeout,  
               speed: $slideshow.slideSpeed,  
               fastOnEvent: $slideshow.tabSpeed,  
               pager: $("ul.slides-nav", $slideshow.context),  
              pagerAnchorBuilder: $slideshow.prepareTabs,  
               before: $slideshow.activateTab,  
              pauseOnPagerHover: true,  
              pause: true  
           });  
       },  
       prepareTabs: function(i, slide) {  
           // return markup from hardcoded tabs for use as jQuery cycle tabs  
           // (attaches necessary jQuery cycle events to tabs)  
           return $slideshow.tabs.eq(i);  
      },  
     
       activateTab: function(currentSlide, nextSlide) {  
         // get the active tab  
           var activeTab = $('a[href="#' + nextSlide.id + '"]', $slideshow.context); 
    
          // if there is an active tab 
          if(activeTab.length) { 
             // remove active styling from all other tabs 
               $slideshow.tabs.removeClass('on'); 

              // add active styling to active button 
              activeTab.parent().addClass('on');  
          }  
       }  
   };  
    
   $(function() {  
       // initialise the slideshow when the DOM is ready  
      $slideshow.init();  
 });