Good morning Alexis!

Well, first of all I am very happy to know you enjoy using our program! Thank you for telling us!

You can not add a flash animation as big as the entire website page, automatically with WebSite X5 I'm afraid, you can if you wish change your background in each page and add a slideshow in your header in order to have a different header in each page. Please have a look at our tips&tricks section where you will be able to find useful advice regarding this.
Otherwise, please show me what result you wish to achieve by giving me other website URLs with the effects you are talking about and I will try to help you gain the same thing.
Thank you!

Hello, Samantha!

Thank you very much for your thoughtful response. Actually, I have looked at some of the tips & tricks and they have been quite helpful. I'm eager to explore the "shopping cart" article in particular to help me finalize my "store." 

As I am an intermidiate user, and not expertly proficient in the technical side of programming, I thought it wasn't possible but wanted to make sure. I'll probably compromise with something similar but on a smaller scale with the use of the slideshow.

I originally wanted to do something close to what is on the link below (though I realize the HTML 5, etc. coding is much more complicated than I know how to do, especally with the buttons, etc.).

http://www.flashmint.com/show-template-4329.html

Also, though, I thought of this as an alternative (which is possibly doable in V9): 

http://www.flashmint.com/show-template-4369.html

Thank you again for all you help!

Look at times, the first 4 menu items. There is one other variant involved. 

 http://testseiten.unofficialwsx5.de/supersized/

A tutorial in German can be found there ... there is also a project file as you can see how it was integrated ... 

http://unofficialwsx5.de/board41-website-x5-version-9/tutorial/856-hintergrund-slideshow-mit-slide-oder-fade-effekt-in-website-x5-v9/

Der Zwoemti, 

Thank you for the links. That looks like a great idea, but my understanding of German is nearly zero :-)  Still, I will try translating the instructions and try my best to plow through it.  Thanks again!

Anyone able to translate German and give me a step-by-step instruction I would be most grateful. I still don't know if I'm missing steps beforehand, or if it's just that I will actually see the end result working once I upload and publish the site online...