GIFs are everywhere. Short for Graphics Interchange Format, the format isn't new (it's been around since the late 1980s), but it's becoming the go-to language for how millennials communicate via text.

In 2012, GIF was named the word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary. And ever since, expressing your thoughts through words has become a thing of the past. Why would we say what we feel when ...

Build links into a GIF image you embed into your Web page so that clicking on the GIF takes visitors to another page. Embedding images into your site requires only very basic knowledge of HTML, but ...

GIFs are portable human expressions. Looped images of grumpy cats, falling babies and weird Drake moves convey a barrage of information and emotions in a way that words and emojis cannot. While the ...

Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

This portable program is a good pick if you find creating animated GIFs too fiddly and time-intensive. GIF animations are back in vogue, thanks to memes. Even without their use as humor postcards, it ...