What I use to build my web pages:  Sony MVC-FD73 Mavica Digital Camera 

 Click here to see photos I've done with this camera

Canon CanoScan N1220U USB Flatbed Scanner

 

Canon PowerShot S300 Digital ELPH Camera Kit

Making Animations:

The annoying flashing sign at the top of the page is an animated GIF. It was made by making two simple GIF'S in Photoshop (although any graphics program will do-even simple ones), then combining the two in a cheap shareware program called GIF Construction Set (both making the GIF's and combining them can be done in this $20 program).

These GIF's are essentially two boxes with typing in them, using an unusual font. These two GIF'S were layered in GIF Construction Set to make this:

You can also layer many images to make a sort of slide-show:

Or layer successive motion images to simulate movement:

You just make the separate images you want in any graphics program, save them as GIF's, then get GIF Construction Set or Microsoft GIF Animator for Windows 95 to layer them into an animated GIF. The only requirement is that the images be exactly the same size. It is mindlessly simple.

Tara's Cheap Tricks, Copyright 1997, Tara Maginnis, Revised 2002.