lighthouse beam in motion

making a lighthouse beam the background

[pfrpwr]

I don't know the correct terminology but:

I would like to make a lighthouse beam constantly go across the screen as the "background" of the webpage.

Is there a special effect to do this?
Is there a way to capture a movie of this and put it on a webpage?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[korkus2000]

You can do this, but if it is in the background won't it be distracting to the user? Explain what you want a little more.

[hannamyluv]

This is a typical Flash thing, but I believe you may be able to do it with DHTML.

I agree though, it would become very distracting, then annoying if anyone is going to be looking at a page for more than a few seconds.

[pfrpwr]

Thanks for responding.

I would like a "subtle" motion of a light beam across the background of the <frame name="main">.

When the viewer clicks on a link on the <frame name="contents"> the link will cover the background.

So I don't think it would be distracting when it is covered over.

Thanks

[domokun]

if its done properly it may look quite nice.
its all going to depend on the speed and frequqncy of the beam - the slower the better.
im assuming that the beam circle will be changing shape slightly to give the appearance of depth(?), therefore flash is your man.