So I checked out Hislide or should I say Highslide. Looks very complicated and I couldnt work out how to actually create a slideshow. It looks like it's made for thumbnail previews.

Anyways, I decided to look down other avenues and I'm thinking an animated gif might suit my needs.
Main issues with animated gifs -
- the overall filesize (only really need to slide between 3 or 4 images tho)
- only uses 256 colours (could be an issue with quality)
- no tweens or transitions between frames (to create a fade transition would mean adding more frames which in turn increase file size)

I'm gonna try it out but I'm not feeling positive about the results.

Another avenue I'm looking down is adding external scripts from http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/index.html but again it seems way too complicated for a simple person like myself to work out. Anyone had any success?