This demonstration shows you aome more advanced effects you can accomplish with the Galleria plugin. The history object is also active, so feel free to try the back button in your browser and bookmark a page. The next and previous links are simple to create since the galleria object has two public functions for traversing the images in your list.
This gallery was created from a simple unordered list with images - thumbnails and functionality is all in the Galleria plugin. Viewing this page without javascript or CSS enabled with degrade it into a list of full-size images.
Visit the galleria project: http://galleria.googlecode.com