Make slideshow from dynamic database of photo files

go to www.g*re*en*fami*lyfe*[login to view URL] (without *'s) and you can see an animated gif on the right side that says 'Sponsors' underneath it. Now we have the speakers in a database with their photos. I want to pull those photos from the database and show them like that animated gif using java and css. I created a page [login to view URL] that already has the mysql select query to select the right photo to display and the speaker name to display over the photo. Just need to add the code to this page, so that it displays like the animated gif with the image having a 1pixel black border around it, and a 50% opacity bg under the text at the very bottom of the image, with the text of the speaker name above it. This mysql select query is also already sorted by name, which is the order they should be displayed. All the photos will be the same exact height and width so that the area doesn't have to change it's space. Would like to be the same size as the current animated gif. Show each photo for 2 seconds, and then a half second dissolve. I will change the side navigation code to include this file [login to view URL] after you are complete.