Hi no prob ~ Wow a lot of people been asking me O.O in terms of border I would take that as a step in terms of learning the basics first. When your comfortable with the basics as in understanding layers, fonts, adding images aka villagers. THEN you should go on to other steps, because it will not look as pretty if you don't understand the first steps. I am not sure which program you use, but I used to use photofilre for non animated gifs to practice with, but I do use photoshop atm. In terms of gif images what do you mean? Background? or an icon?