What's the best Slider Plugin?

[designthing]

Can someone recomend the best jquery slider plugin for a homepage only or how to add something like the Nivo Slider. As a newbie and with zero php, i am thinking maybe hardcode the script into a homepage template and having a second template for other pages. But i guess there's an easier way, right!
I still don't fully understand custom fields and so any advice would be appreciated.
May thanks!

[Oleg06]

http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-gallery/160/
http://getsimplethemes.com/gst-superslideshows/