Hello everyone! I customized the Deuxcolumn exhibition format to go with my layout, but then wanted to add the really cool fadein/fadeout effect and prev/next navi from the Slideshow format. I managed to proceed to a stage where it seems to work, except for the thumbnail navigation.
I tried to see how it was done in the Galleria format, but the plugin didn't work at all in my system, and besides the technique was altogether different. The Slideshow looks great because of the overlapping images and opacity changes; I don't want to see a white flash when images are crossfaded (this is the case with the Djuve format).
I have no idea what I'm doing (it's my first ever web project with no training or prior knowledge) and so far I've been simply relentlessly going through all imaginable options and seeing by trial and error what every small bit of code does. But now that there's jQuery involved, I lost it completely and don't even know how to begin trying. I have to look up syntax instructions for nearly everything I do, so this level becomes too complex with all the different languages and their terminology and the ways they should be used.
So what I'm asking is if someone could come up with some kind of a plan to make a non-linear thumbnail navigation happen inside this same exhibition format, and give me a hint on how to start. Should I begin writing a new JS function or what?
(Should I post my code? It's just copy&paste from those two formats.)