I am a moderator on one of the Yahoo Groups, and we have 3 contests for the month, with 3 different winners, so I want to have them flash back in forth. So, I figured instead of doing a collage, I thought the flash would be easier
So you want to make the 3 contests and the winners rotate like an animated banner, announcing the contests separate from the winners? You could do it in FLASH, which would create a larger file and a smoother transition however, you could accomplish the same thing (or pretty close) with an animated GIF if you use more frames to make the transition smooth...
I designed graphics for a website (last year) where the customer wanted buttons that looked like FLASH but we ended up doing them as an animated GIF's because they were smaller...check it out - If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and "mouse over" each square button, the animation starts... Let me know if that is what you were thinking...