title: pagination issue wordpress on static front page
body: <p>hi have a problem where i can't get pagination to work on a static front page, looked at wordpress codex and done what it says built but still no joy,  </p>
  
  <p>any help greatly appreciated </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
  $type = 'Galleries';
  $args=array(
     'category_name' =&gt; 'Gallery',
     'post_status' =&gt; 'publish',
     'posts_per_page' =&gt; 2,
     'paged' =&gt; $paged 
   );
  
  $my_query = null;
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
  ?&gt; 
  &lt;section id="maincontent" class="twelve columns"&gt;
  &lt;ul id="gallery_menu"&gt;
  &lt;?php if( $my_query-&gt;have_posts() ) {
      while ($my_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $my_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
          &lt;li class="gallery_titleframe"&gt;
              &lt;div class="gallery_titleborder"&gt;
                  &lt;div class="gallery_titleimage"&gt;
                  &lt;?php $str = get_the_ID() ; ?&gt; 
                      &lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php  echo get_post_meta($str, 'gallery1', true); ?&gt;"&gt;  
                          &lt;img src="&lt;?php echo get_post_meta($str, 'gallery1', true); ?&gt;"  width="256" height="186"&gt;
                       &lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;div class="gallery_titletext"&gt;
                  &lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to &lt;?php the_title_attribute(); ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
           &lt;/li&gt;    
  &lt;?php endwhile;
      } ?&gt; 
          &lt;div id="nav-below" class="navigation"&gt;
              &lt;div class="nav-previous"&gt;&lt;?php next_posts_link(); ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;div class="nav-next"&gt;&lt;?php previous_posts_link(); ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- #nav-below --&gt;
  
   &lt;?php wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post(). ?&gt;
  </code></pre>