function loader() {
	//	jquery styling of check availability form so its pretty
	$('form.jqtransform').jqTransform();
	// Clears defaut text on input boxes with the class of text - note alt tag must be added with same value as 'value' tag.
	$(".text").focus(
		function() {
			if( $(this).attr('alt') == $(this).val() ) {
				$(this).val('');
			}
		});
	// Adds back defaut text on input boxes with the class of text if not changed
	$(".text").focusout(
		function(){
			if( $(this).val() == '' ) {
				$(this).val( $(this).attr('alt') );
			}
		});

	
	// Weather widget for the footer - yahoo api
	$.simpleWeather({
		zipcode: '21550',
		unit: 'f',
		success: function(weather) {

			html = '<a href="'+weather.link+'" target="_blank"><img src="'+weather.thumbnail+'"></a><a href="'+weather.link+'" target="_blank">Current Weather</a><span style="font-size:14px; display:block; font-family: arial; margin-top:5px;">'+weather.currently+' '+weather.temp+'&deg; '+weather.units.temp+'</span>';

			$("#weather").html(html);
		},
		error: function(error) {
			$("#weather").html("<p>"+error+"</p>");
		}
	});
	
   

	if($('#thumbs').length > 0){

		// Initially set opacity on thumbs and add
		// additional styling for hover effect on thumbs
		var onMouseOutOpacity = 0.67;
		$('#thumbs ul.thumbs li').opacityrollover({
			mouseOutOpacity:   onMouseOutOpacity,
			mouseOverOpacity:  1.0,
			fadeSpeed:         'fast',
			exemptionSelector: '.selected'
		});

		// Initialize Advanced Galleriffic Gallery
		var gallery = $('#thumbs').galleriffic({
			delay:                     2500,
			numThumbs:                 10,
			preloadAhead:              10,
			enableTopPager:            false,
			enableBottomPager:         true,
			maxPagesToShow:            7,
			imageContainerSel:         '#slideshow',
			controlsContainerSel:      '#controls',
			captionContainerSel:       '#caption',
			loadingContainerSel:       '#loading',
			renderSSControls:          true,
			renderNavControls:         true,
			playLinkText:              'Play Slideshow',
			pauseLinkText:             'Pause Slideshow',
			prevLinkText:              '&lsaquo; Previous Photo',
			nextLinkText:              'Next Photo &rsaquo;',
			nextPageLinkText:          'Next &rsaquo;',
			prevPageLinkText:          '&lsaquo; Prev',
			enableHistory:             true,
			autoStart:                 false,
			syncTransitions:           false,
			defaultTransitionDuration: 900,
			onSlideChange:             function(prevIndex, nextIndex) {
				// 'this' refers to the gallery, which is an extension of $('#thumbs')
				this.find('ul.thumbs').children()
					.eq(prevIndex).fadeTo('fast', onMouseOutOpacity).end()
					.eq(nextIndex).fadeTo('fast', 1.0);
			},
			onPageTransitionOut:       function(callback) {
				this.fadeTo('fast', 0.0, callback);
			},
			onPageTransitionIn:        function() {
				this.fadeTo('fast', 1.0);
			}
		});

		/**** Functions to support integration of galleriffic with the jquery.history plugin ****/

		// PageLoad function
		// This function is called when:
		// 1. after calling $.historyInit();
		// 2. after calling $.historyLoad();
		// 3. after pushing "Go Back" button of a browser
		function pageload(hash) {
			// alert("pageload: " + hash);
			// hash doesn't contain the first # character.
			if(hash) {
				$.galleriffic.gotoImage(hash);
			} else {
				gallery.gotoIndex(0);
			}
		}

		// Initialize history plugin.
		// The callback is called at once by present location.hash. 
		$.historyInit(pageload, "advanced.html");

		// set onlick event for buttons using the jQuery 1.3 live method
		$("a[rel='history']").live('click', function(e) {
			if (e.button != 0) return true;

			var hash = this.href;
			hash = hash.replace(/^.*#/, '');

			// moves to a new page. 
			// pageload is called at once. 
			// hash don't contain "#", "?"
			$.historyLoad(hash);

			return false;
		});

		/****************************************************************************************/
	}

}