Ok, so I’ve been playing more and more with jQuery. Here’s my take on showing off my portfolio, where I give a brief on each project and include a screen-shot.  This also uses the cool reflection.js for the images, and provides a simple progress stepper.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
$(function() {
$('#mainContent img').addClass("reflect rheight10");
$('#mainContent img').css("float","right"); //reflect messes up floats, so add back in here
$(".H").append('<span>&laquo; Prev</span> | <span>Next &raquo;</span>');
var g=1;
$(".H").each(function(){
perc = (g/$(".H").length)*100;
$(this).append('
<div>
<div style="width:'+perc+'%"></div>
</div>
')
g++;
});
$(".next").css('cursor','pointer').click(function(){    slideShow();    })
$(".prev").css('cursor','pointer').click(function(){    slideShowPrev();})
$(".H").filter(':not(:last)').hide();
$(".H").filter(':last').addClass('show'); //'show' the last slide because when we call slideshow(), it will loop around to the first slide
$('#port a').attr('target','_blank');
slideShow();
});

function slideShow() {
var current = $('#port .show');
var next = current.next().length ? current.next() : current.parent().children(':first');
current.fadeOut('slow').removeClass('show');
next.fadeIn('slow').addClass('show');
}
function slideShowPrev() {
var current = $('#port .show');
var prev = current.prev().length ? current.prev() : current.parent().children(':first');
current.fadeOut('slow').removeClass('show');
prev.fadeIn('slow').addClass('show');
}
// ]]></script>
<script src="scripts/reflection/reflection.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

This works with the structure I already had–classed div’s holding each project.