Example Fade-y Slideshow Thing

gistfile1.txt

.faderotate {
	height: 250px;
	position: relative;
	width: 100%;
}

.faderotate .slide {
	left: 0;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	width: 100%;
}

.faderotate .hidden {
	left: -9999px;
}

<a href="#" class="next">Next</a>
<a href="#" class="prev">Prev</a>

<ol class="faderotate">
	<li class="slide">
		Stuff
	</li>
	<li class="slide">
		Things
	</li>
</ol>

$('.slide').not(':first').addClass('hidden');

$('.next, .prev').click(function(e) {
	var $vis = $('.slide:visible'),
		$prev = $(e.target).hasClass('prev');
		$goto = $vis[ $prev ? "prev" : "next" ]();
		
	$goto.length && $vis.addClass('hidden')
		[ $prev ? "prev" : "next" ]()
			.removeClass('hidden');
});

Untested and not, y’know, in an actual HTML document.

Oh, sorry—the above is just gonna show/hide instantly without a transition of some sort, which you could do using opacity and transitions, or jQuery’s native fadeOut/fadeIn functionality.