Bring your photos to life in an amazing HTML5 slideshow in Dreamweaver. The Slideshow photo gallery is built with jQuery, is CSS based and uses HTML5 W3C standard elements like the Canvas and CSS3 Transitions, when available, for the highest animation quality and no Flash at all – so it runs on all iDevices smoothly!
if you can create a slider. it's best way to using a jquery to making a effective code put your index page making effective.
I think you would be better looking at creating it in CSS3 if you are looking to have a fancy slider, the uses of CSS3 are fascinating what with the animations, transitions etc.
How about these examples. http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide