dosniner, we’ve build the slideshow on the Conversion Stream website using the Step Carousel Viewer script from Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/stepcarousel.htm).
Hope this helps.
Solution is found in this topic Weird hex characters.
This issue is caused by the so-called BOM (Byte Order Mark), which can be part of the UTF-8 signature.
Read more about this topic in the W3C FAQ about Unexpected characters or blank lines.
I removed the BOM using Dreamweaver by deselecting ‘Include Unicode Signature (BOM)’ under Page Properties > Title/Encoding. Read Dreamweaver Unicode normalizations and Byte Order Mark for more details about Dreamweaver and BOM.