Easy flash/swf animation creators..?

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I'm in the process of building a site as a favour (well, mates rates) and now we're almost finished, they're asking for a few 'fancy' bits to liven up the site a bit. They want to fade/animate about 7-8 different key words in and out, just in a small area at the bottom of the page.

Now, I can't really do Flash (and had told them that!), but remember using a little program called Swish (?) to do some really basic stuff like that a long time ago. But it now seems to be a paid-for program. So is there anything similar that can knock out some simple transitions and animation in an swf for me? I can't seem to find anything apart from demos and oens that will watermark the end result :confused:

Thanks in advance!
 
The latest CS5 Flash is a lot easier to use and you can download a full, non-watermarked, 30 day trial.
 
Are the keywords just for show or are they meant to be for SEO using targeted anchor text for links? If so I'd go with Mr Sly's suggestion. Have them all in there to start with and let the javascript hide and show for users.
 
Sorry, I should have been a bit more specific. I already tried jQuery (actually using a photo fading plugin I was already using) but they thought it looked 'cheap and nasty', so I was after some more interesting effects/animations to try. Hence thinking about Flash. I think I need to get away from 'plaintext'.

Good thinking about the SEO aspect, but they haven't suggested it so I'm not fussed. I'm trying to get this project done and dusted, for mates rates they are starting to faff me about!
 
Sorry, I should have been a bit more specific. I already tried jQuery (actually using a photo fading plugin I was already using) but they thought it looked 'cheap and nasty', so I was after some more interesting effects/animations to try. Hence thinking about Flash. I think I need to get away from 'plaintext'.

Flashing text? Looking cheap and nasty? Who'd've thought!
 
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