Christmasifying Websites

[Marc J]

Before anyone else PM's me asking me to Christmasify their websites - this is something I only offer to design clients, as I have the source graphic files and access to their site(s).

Plus they're paying clients so it's a nice "freebie" to offer.

[Vectis]

Before anyone else PM's me asking me to Christmasify their websites - this is something I only offer to design clients, as I have the source graphic files and access to their site(s).

Plus they're paying clients so it's a nice "freebie" to offer.

See what happens when you try to be nice?

(You COULD get your own back by charging to remove it again in January )

[daz226]

ok just done mine its only for december but i like it

http://www.djdazlive.com/test.html

[rob1963]

ok just done mine its only for december but i like it

http://www.djdazlive.com/test.html

Looks good Daz...apart from the falling snowflakes, which I find annoying for some reason.

[Marc J]

Just to add to this a little, I'm going away for a few days so won't be around to change Rob's back to the usual logo, so I used a little basic PHP to do it for me. It'll also change it back to the Christmas version on 1st December, 2009! I'll put it here for everyone to change to suit if it helps

At the top of your page put something like: -

<?php
if (date("M")=="Dec") {
$headerlogo="images/toplogo_xmas.gif"; // location of your xmas logo
} else {
$headerlogo="images/toplogo.gif"; // location of your normal logo
}
?>

Then where the image you want to replace is, instead of the usual which might be something like: -

<img src="images/toplogo.gif" width="800" height="150" border="0">

replace with: -

<img src="<?php echo $headerlogo; ?>" width="800" height="150" border="0">

Then, for the month of December, your Christmas logo will be shown. This method assumes your xmas logo and normal logo are the same dimensions and so are interchangeable. It also requires that your page is a PHP page and that your host supports this. If you have an HTM or HTML page then adding this line to your .htaccess will parse it as PHP which may work as long as your host supports it: -

## PARSE HTML & HTM FILES AS PHP
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm

Have fun

[Shaun]

I'm going away for a few days so won't be around

Enjoy your break. See you soon.

[OllieJames]

Just to add to this a little, I'm going away for a few days so won't be around to change Rob's back to the usual logo, so I used a little basic PHP to do it for me. It'll also change it back to the Christmas version on 1st December, 2009! I'll put it here for everyone to change to suit if it helps

At the top of your page put something like: -



Then where the image you want to replace is, instead of the usual which might be something like: -



replace with: -



Then, for the month of December, your Christmas logo will be shown. This method assumes your xmas logo and normal logo are the same dimensions and so are interchangeable. It also requires that your page is a PHP page and that your host supports this. If you have an HTM or HTML page then adding this line to your .htaccess will parse it as PHP which may work as long as your host supports it: -



Have fun

Very clever Mark!

[Jiggles]

Simple yet effective that Marc!

[Wayno]

I did it for the first time this year with xmas hat on my hed kandi style girl and a xmasy picture tab on the homepage to a dedicated xmas party page - can't say it increased the booking figures on iota but i suppose it spread the cheer somewhere!

[rob1963]

Just to add to this a little, I'm going away for a few days so won't be around to change Rob's back to the usual logo, so I used a little basic PHP to do it for me.

Thanks Marc.

What you did worked well, as all the snow disappeared from my website yesterday.