$(document).ready(function(){
	        /* This code is executed after the DOM has been completely loaded */
        	
	        var totWidth=0;
	        var positions = new Array();
        	
	        $('#slides .slide').each(function(i){
        		
		        /* Traverse through all the slides and store their accumulative widths in totWidth */
        		
		        positions[i]= totWidth;
		        totWidth += $(this).width();
        		
		        /* The positions array contains each slide's commulutative offset from the left part of the container */
        		
		        if(!$(this).width())
		        {
			        return false;
		        }
        		
	        });
        	
	        $('#slides').width(totWidth);

	        /* Change the cotnainer div's width to the exact width of all the slides combined */

	        $('#menu-carosello ul li a').click(function(e,keepScroll){

			        /* On a thumbnail click */

			        $('li.menuItem').removeClass('act').addClass('inact');
			        $(this).parent().addClass('act');
        			
			        var pos = $(this).parent().prevAll('.menuItem').length;
        			
			        $('#slides').stop().animate({marginLeft:-positions[pos]+'px'},450);
			        /* Start the sliding animation */
        			
			        e.preventDefault();
			        /* Prevent the default action of the link */
        			
        			
			        // Stopping the auto-advance if an icon has been clicked:
			        if(!keepScroll) clearInterval(itvl);
	        });
        	
	        $('#menu-carosello ul li.menuItem:first').addClass('act').siblings().addClass('inact');
	        /* On page load, mark the first thumbnail as active */
        	
        	
        	
	        /*****
	         *
	         *	Enabling auto-advance.
	         *
	         ****/
        	 
	        var current=1;
	        function autoAdvance()
	        {
		        if(current==-1) return false;
        		
		        $('#menu-carosello ul li a').eq(current%$('#menu-carosello ul li a').length).trigger('click',[true]);	// [true] will be passed as the keepScroll parameter of the click function on line 28
		        current++;
	        }

	        // The number of seconds that the slider will auto-advance in:
        	
	        var changeEvery = 5;

	        var itvl = setInterval(function(){autoAdvance()},changeEvery*1000);

	        /* End of customizations */
        });