I realize this blog is not meant to be a tutorial. But you are my friends and maybe you have never bothered to learn to do this.
This is only for those who use blogger (blogspot) blogs, but regular websites use the same principle.
1. If you simply upload an animated gif from your computer to your blog, using the picture upload feature of blogger, you will only get a picture and it will no longer be animated.
2. In order to preserve the animation, you must "host" the gif on an external website and then link to it using some simple html.
3. So the first thing you do is to upload your chosen animation element (one you have found or one you have created yourself) to your "host". Let's use Photobucket for the host. 'Cause it's free. First, create your free Photobucket account if you don't have one already. Then upload the animation you want to use, to your account, using Photobucket's instructions.
4. When your uploaded animation appears in Photobucket, hover your mouse over it and you will see 4 boxes appear under the animation. The third box, titled "HTML code" is the code you want to highlight and copy. This you will paste into your blogger post editor at the point you want the animation to appear. If you want it to appear at the top, simply paste the code before any of your other words in the post.
Note: make sure your blogger editor is not in "Compose" mode. It should be in "Edit Html" mode in order to properly understand and display your pasted HTML. After you paste it, you can then return to "Compose" mode if you want to look at the animation before you publish.
Update: Please note that this post was made a long time ago - in 2008. Blogger has been revised since I made this post. The modern blogger now handles animated gifs internally, and you don't have to host them on an outside site like this post says. Now you can simply load your animated gif (in blogger) as if it were a regular photo and then put it into your blog post. You won't be able to see it move in preview mode, but it will move when you publish your post.
Update: Please note that this post was made a long time ago - in 2008. Blogger has been revised since I made this post. The modern blogger now handles animated gifs internally, and you don't have to host them on an outside site like this post says. Now you can simply load your animated gif (in blogger) as if it were a regular photo and then put it into your blog post. You won't be able to see it move in preview mode, but it will move when you publish your post.
