I have a slideshow using jQuery and the Cycle plugin, and the slideshow uses a list of thumbnails as the "Pager" to control the slideshow. The problem I have is that there are about 30+ large images, and all of them get loaded immediately on page load, so someone with a slow connection has to wait for them to load. Is there any way to have the slideshow build the slides progressively using the links from the thumbnails? I.E.- I put the pager with all of the thumbnails in my HTML, and then the javascript would run through the thumbnails and use the anchor HREFs as the images for the slides?