jquery FadeIn one element after FadeOut the previous div?

Question

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    $(".welcome").fadeOut(9500);
    $(".freelance").fadeIn(10000);
    $(".freelance").fadeOut(4500);
});

I want the welcome message to fadeOut slowly and then the other div to fadeIn its place and then fadeOut - obviously when the welcome box no longer exists.

<header>
    <h1 class="left"><a href="index.html"></a></h1>
    <div class="left yellowbox welcome"><p>Welcome to my portfolio.</p></div>
    <div class="left greenbox freelance"><p>I am currently available for for work, contact me below.</p></div>
</header>

Answer 1

You need to call the additional fadeIn() and fadeOut inside of a callback function to the first one. All animation methods (and many others) in jQuery allow for callbacks:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    $(".welcome").fadeOut(9500,function(){
        $(".freelance").fadeIn(10000, function(){
            $(".freelance").fadeOut(4500);
        });
    });
});

This will cause .welcome to fade out first. Once it's done fading out, .freelance will fade in. Once it's done fading in, it will then fade out.