Category — Seasonal

At the end of November, all serious webmasters prepare for what is known as Christmas Frenzy. Traffic slows down, probably because a lot of people wander in real-life stores picking items that are measured in currency rather than in kilobytes. This is the time when you can attract attention by adapting your website to the holiday season; in a way, make your visitors feel that you’re on the same page. Indeed, “being on the same page” is an important feeling to respect; few things are more dangerous to a website than appearing out of date, or better said, out of touch with reality. You could have a site about biblical legends, or amateur paleontology, but if your visitors feel that you are living in the same world, the gap between the real and the virtual diminishes, and you can easier sweep your readers into your information maelstrom. How can this feeling be achieved without having to switch your background color to bright-christmassy-red, nor having mature white-bearded men populate your home page?

An efficient, yet elegant, unobtrusive manner to do so is offered by “Snow Effect” - a cute little Dreamweaver extension that makes snow flakes fall all over your webpage. You decide everything: how many snowflakes, how big they are, how fast they fall. You can have them in specific sizes or colors, have them occupy a specific part of the screen,  - to perfectly customize this cool effect to your page. 

No matter what your site’s style is: academically serious or absurdly comical - falling snowflakes will not greatly disturb your usual presentation, but will indeed present your users with a nice touch of HSS - Holiday Season Solidarity. 

A similar Dreamweaver extension can be used one month or so later, towards St Valentine’s: snowflakes are replaced by hearts. 

At this time, it seems like there is no Dreamweaver extension with falling Easter eggs, or Halloween pumpkins. Due to this striking absence, please take part in BigDreamweaver’s first poll: 

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PS. Given the amazing popularity of skulls, here’s a tip: for next Halloween, spice it up with some on-site entertainment using Skull Music Player - one of the truly rare Dreamweaver extensions that can induce fear!