Interactive Animation

Hi
I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers on creating an interactive animation in Dreamweaver CS5.
To help explain I created this animated gif: http://www.matthewhawker.com/
What I would like to do is 'on mouse over' each book to pop out and 'on mouse down' link to another page.
Is this possible or should I use Flash?
Thanks in advance.

Edge Animate Tutorials:
http://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to/edge-preview-tutorials/
http://helpx.adobe.com/edge-animate/topics.html
Edge Animate Forums
http://forums.adobe.com/community/edge_animate
Nancy O.

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English:
Hello everyone, sorry for my English, but I'm an Italian guy. I have been trying for days to enter an interactive animation with the mouse on adobe edge, but I can not. Adobe muse I just click enter html code, I copy and paste the code that is this: <iframe src = "linkanimazione.html" width = "1280" height = "720" frameborder = "0" scrolling = "no"> </ iframe> and it works great, but I have to create the button at the edge, because I have to insert a voice audio when you hover over with the mouse before opening the animation. Why in muse so simple, and in edge seems so complex? No practical code, please can someone tell me very clearly how to do? In the net I found a little and I could not make it work.
My button that I should create is composed as follows: background image, roll image when you hover over an item with the mouse and audio ... then when you clik on the roll you open a lightbox with animation iframe interactive with the mouse.
Thank you very much indeed
Italian:
Ciao a tutti, scusate per il mio inglese, ma sono un ragazzo italiano. Sto provando da giorni, ad inserire un animazione interattiva con il mouse su adobe edge, ma non ci riesco. In adobe muse mi basta cliccare su inserisci codice html, copio e incollo il codice che è questo: <iframe src="linkanimazione.html" width="1280" height="720" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> e funziona benissimo, ma sono costretto a creare il bottone in edge, perche devo inserire anche una voce audio quando si passa sopra con il mouse prima di aprire l'animazione. Perchè in muse cosi semplice, ed in edge sembra cosi complesso? Non sono pratico di codici :(, per favore qualcuno mi può dire in modo molto chiaro come fare? In rete ho trovato poco e non sono riuscito a farlo funzionare.
Il mio bottone che dovrei creare è cosi composto: immagine di sfondo, immagine roll quando si passa sopra con il mouse e una voce audio... poi quando si clikka sull'immagine roll si apre un lightbox con l'animazione iframe interattiva con il mouse.
Grazie mille davvero

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