Shoutbox

No, unfortunatly I don't have the time to write a tutorial if you don't know what I'm talking about. There is simply way to much to explain in that case, sorry.

But there are tutorials on the web though.

Although there are not that many decent tutorials around. Most tutorials simply talk about how to create an animated gif in for example PhotoShop etc. But almost all of them forget to explain the inner workings of a GIF, and why you need to do certain things in a certain way. Which is all extremely important. As a result, most of the animated GIFs you'll find on the web are stupidly big, people complain about size limitations, and other people try to convert full blown movies into GIFs and then wonder why their filesize is so big or why it looks so crappy....

Anyways, one of the very very very few tutorials I've found which explains a bit what you MUST know and COMPLETELY understand (imho) in order to make decent animated GIFs is: http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/

Although it might seem quite a lot to take in, and you might want to think to skip some stuff, every piece of information in that tutorial is important though (including the old contest and its results). So, in order to understand it all, it would take some days of reading and quite a lot of practice and looking at GIFs found on the web, but it is worth it.

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Here are two examples from that tutorial which shows what it is all about. Both animations looks the same. But the first image is 21.069 bytes big, the second is only 4.230 bytes big!!!.
                                                         

The first animation is what you get when you follow like 99,9% of all tutorials and how-to's which you'll find on the web about creating an animated GIF. The second animation is something you'll get when you know what you're doing and apply some (easy) techniques.