I used Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe ImageReady to make the animation.
Here's an Avitar for you Drew:
Right click on it and select
Save Picture As
Save it to your Desktop since that's the easiest for "computer illiterates" to find
The way you put it in your posts is pretty easy. You click
User CP at the top right of this page. On the next page click
Edit Options At the very bottom you see Avitar. Click
Change Avitar. On the next page where it says "You can upload an Avitar from your computer" click
Browse. You then have to point to the file on your computer which
should be on your Desktop.