Animated GIF In Elements 6

Please forgive me if this is a simple question but I am new to Elements 6. I recently created a website using WebEasy software. My old site had a place on the home page where a series of pictures would display in sequence and loop, like an animated GIF file. The software I'm using cannot do what I want it to do and it is limited in it's capabilities. I tried to create an animated GIF in elements 6 because I think that would meet my needs to take 5 or 6 photos and display them in a loop in a space on my home page. The help section keeps telling me to place my photos in the layers panel and save to a web page, but I can't get more than one photo at a time to appear in the panel, so when i save it as a web page, the gif is only one photo. Maybe the GIF is not the only way to accomplish my goal, but I would appreciate any help. I am stuck.

Thank you for helping me. I guess I am so new I got stuck on your "create a new file and then add each layer and copy your image on as many layers etc."
Here is what i tried: I selected 7 edited JPG images from the organizer (all at once) and clicked full edit. This opened the editor and my images were in a bin at the bottom. I brought one image into the editor and it created a background layer. I saved this image as another name. I then added 6 layers from the layer panel. I then did a drag and drop on the other images into the editor and they did begin to fill the layer panel with additional layers, albeit not the extra layers I added. I deleted the blank layers and saved the entire file. I then saved it to web and tried the gif, but it was one gif with 6 small and one large pic on it, so no go.
I then tried to save one image, add layers and drag and drop the remaining images from the bin into the blank layers, but it would not accept it.
I appreciate your response, but I need a little more knowledge. I am pretty good at editing pictures, but this layer concept is confusing me. I have had a small amt of training on elements 2, but not on layers. (The dark background on 6 is driving me nuts) I wonder if 7 or 8 changed that.
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