text: how do you do a flash animation like this one? take a look at www.redmondmag.com how do you make a flash animation like the one on the corner of that site?  it goes over html areas when you interact with it. yahoo used to have those too, on advertisements on their homepagte it is a little more complex then that. first you need to make the files, & then you need to link it to the page (run the script/files in the html code) so it knows what to do with the files. a 'mouse over" will not do something like that. for example (below) is the steps to add a flash ticker to your site. how to add it is the easy part, making the flash files or java script is the hard part.  adding this ticker to your webpage the above ticker can be easily edited with any text editor to add your own custom phrases.   step 1: put the following files in your website directory:   ticker.swf ticker.js ticker.xml   step 2: put the following line of code on your webpage somewhere after the "body" tag. best to add it just before the first title on any page you want the ticker on. exact placement is not important.      step 3: add the following line of code to your coolstyle.css or your corporatestyle.css at the very bottom.   #ticker { right: 10px; position: absolute; top: 10px }   placement on the page: once you have completed the above steps your ticker should be on the page. you will now need to edit the placement. open your coolstyle.css or your corporatestyle.css file and edit the line of code shown in the above example. you can change the pixels from the "top" or from the "right". you can also change the "right" and make it left.   optional placement on the page: if you want you do not need to edit the coolstyle.css or your corporatestyle.css at all and the ticker will be placed wherever you have placed the .js code. (see step 2)   adding your phrases: you can add as many phrases as you would like. edit the "ticker.xml" in notepad or a simple text editor to add your own phrases. copy a line with the  tags and edit the phrase inside.