How do I do this without using flash?

[sarah24]

Hi everyone. This is a section of a website that I am working on.

http://www.beingsarahb.com/Picture2.jpg

The image area will be rotating at random. There will probably be a folder containing at least 50 images. We would like them to rotate with a fading transition. The nav bar is obviously transparent over that rotating image. The blue text you see below the nav bar is the rollover. These are the subsections for a given nav button.

First let me preface it with all the navigation can be html text. Now I know I can do the transparency effect for the nav bar using css. I also know that I can do the rotating image randomly using some javascript as well as a little php.

What I need to figure out is is it possible to get all of these things that I want to do to work together. And would I be able to overlap the nav bar with the transparency effect over a rotating image.

Now obviously this can be achieved using flash but I REALLY dont want to if I dont have to.

Can anyone point me in a direction of resources or let me know if you think this is possible? Or am I doomed to have to use flash.

Thank you all in advanced! :)

[Medyman]

Most things that you can do in Flash, you can do with Javascript. At least, when it relates to these kinds of applications.

So, the answer to your question is that all of this can be done without Flash. Looking into any of the javascript effects libraries:

jQuery (http://jquery.com/), mootools (http://mootools.net/), Script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/)

There are more, of course, but those are the three that I use most often.

[hmsnacker123]

ill do the flash for you if you want

[boogyman]

javascript fade show - http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/fadeinslideshow.htm