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    copied!<p>For anyone who might encounter this challenge we devised two ways to solve it: </p> <p><b>The first</b> is a bit mickey mouse: It requires that you know how many images, etc you want to use beforehand (which in most cases you would). We wrote a script to repeatedly request an image and inserts it into the page, and on finding an image then request the next image in the chain.</p> <p>Ie. Display default image -> request image 1<br> then, displaying image 1 -> request image 2<br> etc</p> <p> From your end you can simply drop the images into a folder on your server when you are ready for them to go in. An advantage of this is that the images can be interactive, with links to other content, etc. </p> <p>The big disadvantage, of course, is a lot of unnecessary requests to your page. In our case we anticipated enough traffic that it didn't seem wise. Also, there are plenty of opportunities for mistakes and depending how frequently your timer fires there are likely to be timing discrepancies.</p> <p><b>The Second</b> costs money: we found the program Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/producer) which allows us all the image control we require in terms of timing with the advantage of providing support for media clips etc. And it allows you to record everything streamed.</p> <p><p>The disadvantage is that what the user sees is an integrated video on your site, so that you have to handle links to related content and provide images (if you want your users to have access to them) separately.<p></p> <p><b>Hope this comes in handy for someone</b></p> <p>I would still welcome any suggestions on how to make the first method more effective</p>
 

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