Fire!!
Next came the animated gif file. The instructions were pretty clear on this one. It took me a little while to come up with an idea for the animation. Again, what does a camping website lend itself to? The example 'wheel animated gif' looked awesome on screen... just by rotating the simple image.
For awhile, I was trying to figure out some kind of animated gif that would not involve a photograph (like Mari's animated that was like an 8bit picture). Yet.... I ended up using a photograph. I like the way it turned out though! I put the fire photo that I got from the internet into photoshop. I used about 7 different layers, each time using the burn tool to change the image a little more. It sort of makes the illusion that the fire is glowing (and that smoke is coming from it).
I didn't find it too much of a challenge to transform this file into an actual animated gif in fireworks.
Also, it wasn't too hard to attach this, along with the banner, to my homepage in Dreamweaver.

Once I finally got the html into Dreamweaver (index2.html), things began to snap into place much quicker.