You also can tell your animation program how many times you want the little fella to play. One thing that's kind of a pain is that if you have your animation play a certain number of times, some browsers will leave it on the first frame when it finishes, though most will leave it on the last. So if you want people to see a particular image once the animation is through, you have to make it both the first and the last frame.

Finally, let's look at looping again. Most GIF animation tools give you the option of looping - making it run from start-to-finish, start-to-finish, again and again and again. As far as Webmaster Floyd is concerned, there aren't many good reasons to loop, unless your goal is to be annoying.