title: Stagger jQuery Animations
body: <p>I want to animate a series of items in jquery 1.3, with each next item beginning halfway through the first animation. In otherwords, I want a half-queue effect. I attempted to use the below code, but it is not working. Does anyone have any ideas?</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $("h3").click(function(){
        $(".projectItem").each(function (i) {
          if (i &gt; 0){
              setTimeout ("", 500);
          }
          $(this).animate({"opacity": 0, "duration": 1000});
        });
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PS: I attempted to use various "idle" or "pause" jquery plugins, but I suspect the techniques used were pre jquery 1.3?</p>
  
  <p>PPS: Thanks in advance for your help :)</p>