Building a Front Page slideshow, please help =[

Ok……..

Ok, Let me try to explain……

1. You need to add a link to your Javascript on the header.php like this, add these too JS to your theme folder for example javascripts

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url');?>/javascript/jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url');?>/javascript/jquery.nivo.slider.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(window).load(function() {
        $('#slider').nivoSlider();
    });
    </script>

2. If you planning on using this on the actual posts then, i would suggest using post thumbnails. You need to add this code to your functions.php

////This will allow you to have thumbnails feature enabled.
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');

3. Then replace the above code refering to the slider like so.

<div id="slider" class="nivoSlider">
               <?php $recent = new WP_Query(); ?>
<?php $recent->query('cat=344&showposts=7'); ?>  <!--Change the category number to show what ever category you want to show images from.-->

<?php while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post(); ?>

  <a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e('Read more:','afronews24')?> <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>

  <?php endwhile; ?>

            </div>
           	<div id="htmlcaption" class="nivo-html-caption">
                <font style="line-height:200%"><br></font>
		</div>
	</div>

This is the basic explanation i can have, i hope it works for you.