What program to make animated Gifs?

If I want to make to make an animated GIF, what is the best program to use?

P.S. Who is that dude on this forum with the nuke that blows up void main and how the heck did u put that nuke explosion on the GIF?

>>If I want to make to make an animated GIF, what is the best program to use? <<

Adobe ImageReady

>>P.S. Who is that dude on this forum with the nuke that blows up void main<<

that dude would be Salem.

http://www.jhepple.com/gif_animator.htm

Free gif animator.

Really basic, but it'll do that job for ya.

Thanks guys