function slideSwitch(fadeMotion) {
		var active = jQuery('#banner div.active');
	
		if ( active.length == 0 ) active = jQuery('#banner div:last');
	
		// use this to pull the divs in the order they appear in the markup
		var next = (active.next().length) ? active.next() : jQuery('#banner div:first');
	
		if(fadeMotion == 'random'){
			var sibs  = active.siblings();
			var rndNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * sibs.length );
			next  = jQuery( sibs[ rndNum ] );
		}
	
	
		active.addClass('last-active');
	
		next.css({opacity: 0.0});
		next.addClass('active');
		next.animate({opacity: 1.0}, 600, function() {
				active.removeClass('active last-active');
			});
			
}