The markup for the slideshow above contains only one slide initially:
<div id="slideshow" class="pics">
<img src="images/beach1.jpg" width="200" height="200" />
</div>
Note that slideshows must contain at least two slides before invoking the cycle
function.
The script on this page uses the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var $ss = $('#slideshow');
// add slides to slideshow (images 2-8)
for (var i = 2; i < 9; i++)
$ss.append('<img src="images/beach'+i+'.jpg" width="200" height="200" />');
// start the slideshow
$ss.cycle();
</script>