If you look at ABC New’s website located at http://abcnews.go.com/ you’ll see that the headline picture changes about every two or three seconds. Can anyone tell me what the code is that I would use if I wanted to do the same thing and cycle through several pictures on my website at certain intervals? Thanks!

schumert...They are using Flash. Just creating a simple Flash slide show and embedding it. In their case they are probably auto generating it from a database but a person wouldn’t have to.
You could also do it with an animated GIF.
There are also Javascripts for this type of thing.

Not quite the same but an option…
Create a new weblog where each entry contains an image link. In your template, use something like this…
{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“weblogName” orderby=“random” limit=“1”}
<div id=“whatever”>
{ImageFile} <- Name of field containing the image location
</div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
This will show a different image each time a visitor reloads the page.
I do it here with the graphic design statements in the center. Refresh my page and you should see a different one each time (there are 15 different ones). Of course, it’s random so every once in awhile you’ll see the same one picked twice in a row.
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Now, that doesn’t auto rotate like ABC. You could add a “META-Refresh” tag to your header but that will reload the whole page…probably less then desirable.

PXLated,

This is a pretty ingenious way to randomize content! Every time I come to the forum I am amazed by the flexibility of EE—and the mental flexibility of many of its users

Just add some categories to this weblog and you have a full-blowned random content distributor…

Yan...
Ya, it’s pretty flexible. With a little creative thinking, there’s usually a way to do it. Not always but then there are plugins (and hopefully modules)