Top story rotation system

[CPHDK]

Hi all,

I need any information I can get on how to do something like this, or if a complete system that fits my needs can be bought somewhere.

Ok, here goes..

Gamespot has it, IGN has it, 1up has it and many many more. I'm talking about the box showing the top stories in rotation and also has a browse function.
Examples:
http://www.gamespot.com
http://www.1up.com

The system I need should be something like.. rotating 8 images each with its own external link to an article. Under that there should be a browse function with "next" and "previous" button.

It needs a sort of back-end/CMS to update the stories rotating.

So actually its more like an image-gallery with external links, as the teasertext for each story will be done on the image in Photoshop.

Anyone?

Thanks for all help, links or tutorials

Have a great weekend.
/CPHDK

[NTD]

Hi,

There are several ways to create a banner rotate movie. The easiest would be to include the content in the flash movie on seperate frames in a movieclip and use the setInterval method to navigate from frame to frame showing the appropriate content. The backend to externally update content is a bit more in depth and will require a backend scripting language like PHP to handle the necessary server side needs such as saving data to a text file. Creating an external link is simply a getURL method call. The next and previous button code would simply navigate between frames in the movieclip... ie.... nextFrame().... prevFrame() .... functions.

Hope it helps
NTD