There's a few tools and links I thought worth flaggingup for webmasters who may be preparing their websites for Christmas.

1. How Many Days Until Christmas?

A reminder to your visitors informing them of how many days there until Christmas is a nice seasonal touch and also, as the number of days lessen, a motivator to them to go and and actually buy before time runs out. Here's a nice little Javascript code snippet that easily customisable to any date.

2. Add Snow Flakes To Your Images

The Snowflakes plugin for Photoshop from VanDerLee is a cool way to add falling snow over any logo or image you have. You can customise it as much as you like, varying the thickness or snow, number of flakes, transparency etc

3. Add Fallen Snow To Your Logos

Also from VanDerLee is the Snowscape plugin for Photoshop which lets you add a layer of fallen snow upon your text and shapes - the perfect seasonal adjustment for your website logo.


Example image using the Snowflakes and Snowscape addin from VanDerLee

4. List of Christmas Wordpress Themes

Bloggerholic has put together a list of Christmas Wordpress themes so you can give your Wordpress site a completely new look for Xmas. I'm using the Vermillion Christmas theme on my Personalised Gifts website, which actually comes with its own "christmas countdown" script too.



Feel free to add any other tips or recommendations for Xmas optimisation to the comments...

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