How to Customize Your Web Page for the Holidays

Get into the spirit of the season with festive clip art and holiday accents on your Web page.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computers
• Paint Shop Pro
• Web Design Software
• Paint Shop Pro

1. Use a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo!, to locate holiday Web graphics. Use keywords like "Christmas," "Hanukkah" (watch for spelling variations), "Kwanzaa," "holidays" or "festive."

2. Check your clip art files for holiday clip art. You can customize the graphics to fit your Web page by recoloring or resizing them.

3. Add holiday sidebars to the top, bottom or sides of your Web page. A holiday bar, such as a long garland decorated with lights, adds holiday style without cluttering your page.

4. Use a paint program to add holiday accents, such as ornaments, lights or snow accents, to your logo.

5. Consider changing the color scheme of your Web page for the holidays. For example, if your Web page is normally blue and yellow, using a festive green, red and white color scheme adds holiday charm to your Web page.

6. Look at other pages for ideas on holiday accents. Many major retailers and portals add holiday accents and are a wealth of ideas.

Tips & Warnings

• Be subtle in your holiday accents. Bright, glaring animations or total site overhauls in a Christmas theme confuse visitors and may turn them away.
• Keep your Web page simple and uncluttered.
• Minimize clip art and animation. Clip art will take up added space on your site and make the site load slowly.
• Obtain permission before using any unlicensed or copyrighted clip art.
• Do not use images from another Web page without permission from the owner of the site.