Sometimes a bit of simple movement can enhance a website design and offer your visitors a more interesting experience, but people are often put off by the workload.

Getting changing/rotating pictures on your website dosen't necessarily mean spending a couple of hours messing around with Flash.  Gifs are normally thought of as just images, but they can also be animated.  I was recently directed to a fantastic piece of FREE software which takes your images and turns them into a rotating gif. 

Please Note: You only seem to be able to use JPG files.

You can download Animator Nine from here:

http://www.download.com/Animator-9/3000-2186_4-909432.html

Basic instructions:

1. Download, install and open Animator Nine.
2. Select 'Stitch'
3. Click the little file tree icon in the top left and browse to the folder that contains the JPG FILES that you want to rotate.  You don't need to select the individual files, just the folder they are in.
4. Select the images you want to use from the file list window and click 'Add' for each
5. Select the size of the rotating gif (the images should all be the same size or they will look funny!)
6. Select 'Done'
7. Save the file.
8. Select 'Control'
9. Set the frame delay and loop delay (its best to play with this to work it all out!)
10. Split Format - Gif
11. Autorun after load - Make
12. Then, click 'Make' in the main menu
13. Save your animated gif, and that's it!

Then, just upload your image to your website using our Content Management and the images will rotate like a charm!

You cannot edit a file once made, but hey, its a nice simple tool...

Have fun!