What do you use to make animated gifs and animated banners?

[Dismal_Bliss]

I have the Adobe Creative Suite and can download and access any Adobe program, so maybe I technically already have the tool(s) I need. But I want to create some animated gifs, as well as some animated advertising banners, but I don't know where to start.

I'll eventually research this topic, but I thought it might be nice to hear from real people about the software they use and have experience with.

 

[Mike30]

I am also interested to know. Specially some software that makes it easy to make because I am not good at all with design