Good Afternoon, everyone. I am new to this forum so I honestly don't know what to expect. But I wanted to see if I could get some help here with a project that I am working on (No! it is NOT homework). Without giving all the specifies, which would take to much time up, I would like to jump in and give you the details of what I am trying to do.

This application I am going to be showing off some of my work with a slide show of sort with a slide effect. In the click event handler for the links in the 'work list', I wanted to use a slide effect to hide the description (text) of the current work over a duration of one-half second. Trying to use the direction option to slide the description to the right. Here is what my index.html code looks like (the text isn't anything more than Lorem Ispum, right now until I get it working):

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Work View | By: James</title>
    <!-- jQuery UI style sheet reference. Smoothness is the theme used. -->
    <link href="css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">    
    <!-- Normal style sheet used for layout and general formatting. -->
    <link href="styles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
    <!-- HTML5 shim/shiv for HTML5 section element backward compatibility. -->
    <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <!-- jQuery library reference. Latest is always referenced from jQuery's CDN. -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
    <!-- jQuery UI JavaScript library reference. -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {
            $("#work_view a").click(function() {
                var source = $(this).children("img").attr("src");
                var alt = $(this).children("img").attr("alt");
                var description = $(this).next().html();
                $("#work_image img").attr("src", source);
                $("#work_image img").attr("alt", alt);
                $("#work_desc p").html(description);                
            })
        });
    </script>
</head>

<body>
    <section>
        <h1>Work</h1>
        <h2>Clicking on the image and watch the animation...(cool)</h2>       
        <div>
            <ul id="work_view">
                <li>
                    <a><img src="images/type-font.jpg" alt="Typo-graphy" height="125" width="100"></a>
                    <p class="hidden">"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem 
                    accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore 
                    veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem 
                    quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui 
                    ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit 
                    amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut 
                    labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum 
                    exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? 
                    Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, 
                    vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"</p>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a><img src="images/design-flyer.jpg" alt="Design Flyer Triology" height="125" width="100"></a>
                    <p class="hidden">"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and 
                    praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual 
                    teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, 
                    dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how 
                    to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there 
                    anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally 
                    circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, 
                    which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who 
                    has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, 
                    or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"</p>       
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a><img src="images/poster.jpg" alt="Poster" height="125" width="100"></a>
                    <p class="hidden">"At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium 
                    voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non 
                    provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. 
                    Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi 
                    optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, 
                    omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe 
                    eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente 
                    delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat."</p> 
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a><img src="images/signature.jpg" alt="Magers Studio - Signature" height="125" width="100"></a>
                    <p class="hidden">"On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are 
                    so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they 
                    cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail 
                    in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. 
                    These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is 
                    untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be 
                    welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the 
                    obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances 
                    accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects 
                    pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains."</p>         
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a><img src="images/superman.jpg" alt="Graphic Design - Superman" height="125" width="100"></a>
                    <p class="hidden">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 
                    Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown 
                    printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not 
                    only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. 
                    It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, 
                    and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p>                   
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <div id="work_image">
            <img src="images/type-font.jpg" alt="Typo-graphy" height="375" width="300">
        </div>
        <div id="work_desc">
            <p>"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem 
                    accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore 
                    veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem 
                    quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui 
                    ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit 
                    amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut 
                    labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum 
                    exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? 
                    Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, 
                    vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"</p>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </section>
</body>
</html>

I have searched the internet with maybe some examples that I could follow but with no luck. I even went to codecanyon.net because I know they usually have some good examples on their I could follow.

I am not confident in jQuery, first and foremost, I was just trying to figure out how to insert some slide animation into my script. I hope I explained myself right. Any help would be appreciated, I have the code down to thus far I am just stuck.

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