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Websites Decorated for the Holidays

Cameron Baney — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:45:03 +0000

The holiday season is upon us, and everyone is putting up their decorations to show off their spirit. However, decorations are no longer limited to your house. Many websites are changing their look for a month to get into the spirit as well. Some websites change it drastically, while others add subtle changes. This is a showcase of what some websites are doing to show their spirit.

Changing your website around for a month to get into the spirit can do wonders for your traffic. It shows your visitors that you’re still there, and you want to keep things fresh. In addition, it shows the visitors that you stay current with what is happening in the world. I always found it exciting when TV shows had a holiday special, or even had the seasons change in the show when they really did in the world. Adding holiday changes to your website will excite your users as well. In addition to keeping current, your new holiday look could bring in some new visitors. Your current viewers might love the new look so much that they will tell their friends.

Smashing Magazine

Made Me LOL

Aion

Queness

Newegg

Hershey Park

Krop

Have you seen a holiday website?

Drop a link in the comments to show off holiday websites that you have found, or even your own!

Neat Tweets #2

Cameron Baney — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:35:51 +0000

Neat Tweets is a weekly feature that showcases the best tweets of the week. These tweets can be an assortment of inspiration, tutorials, resources or freebies. I take the liberty to filter through all of the tweets of the week for the best of the best just so you don’t have to.

This week featuring:

jQuery plugins, WordPress plugins, 100,000+ free icons, free fonts and a showcase of 90+ creative agency websites

35 More Useful jQuery Plugins and Techniques

A variety of jQuery plugins to make your website look great while cutting down on production time. Plugins range from tables and forms to navigation or images.

More than 115,000 icons in one place

Icon Finder has always made it easy for a designer/developer to find nice looking icons for their projects. They took that one step further and showcased over 100,000 icons.

12 Essential Plugins that Extend WordPress as a CMS

WordPress has become a very popular content management system (CMS) for almost any site. These 12 plugins will make it even more easier to use.

A Beautiful Apple-style Slideshow Gallery With CSS & jQuery

A tutorial and source files on how to recreated Apple’s slideshow gallery they use on their website using CSS and jQuery.

50 creative web agencies

A showcase of 50 creative web agencies and their websites.

Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Friday Fresh Free Fonts is an amazing weekly feature on Abduzeedo that showcases and offers downloads to free fonts.

25 Clear And Beautiful Comparison Tables

A showcase of 25 comparison tables. Great inspiration for your next project.

44 Amazing Agency Websites

Another showcase of creative agency websites. This list includes graphic design and advertising agencies, and only repeats a few of the sites that were featured on Indeziner.

AutoSprites – A jQuery Menu Plugin

A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create animated menus using CSS sprite sheets.

Neat Tweets #1

Cameron Baney — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:10:51 +0000

Web UI Treasure Chest v1.0

Version 1.0 of the Web UI Treasure Chest includes over 100 elements in a full, layered .PSD file. Most of the elements are editable, which makes it a perfect resource for your next web project.

5 Steps to winning any client project

FreelanceFolder published this excellent article for freelance designers. Being a freelance designer not only requires design skills, but also salesman skills. This articles gives you five steps to win clients, including why the step is needed and how to achieve it.