I am not sure exactly what it is called but I noticed many news type websites having an image on their main page where the main stories will rotate every lets say 5 seconds so it will show what articles are the top ones right then (ex. http://www.allhiphop.com). I was wondering if there are any plug ins for wordpress that could do this for me or a simple type of coding for something that would like professional that could rotate 3 feature articles.
Found what I needed, posting it just in case anyone else is looking for it. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/featuredcontentslider.htm