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Monday, December 14, 2015

Art and design: Christmas websites

image: Christmas wallpaper
Christmas wallpaper, iSkysoft
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Today's mission was to find some of the best non-commercial websites online in the last 2 years. I return empty-handed. If you want to buy something, be inspired with lovely Christmas templates (to buy), or go to church, you're in luck.

The recent lists of best websites mostly tout flat design anyway, which frankly I find flat. That is, without any visual interest. Perhaps the best list about Christmas in general is the Telegraph's Christmas 2015. Christmas.com may hold some treasures for you.

If you want a template for your own website, take a look at Christmas Templates 2015: A List Of 14 Best Templates For Professional Blogs And Websites. If Wordpress is your CMS (content management system) of choice, there's 10 Best WordPress Christmas themes 2015. (Note: some links at Design Maz point to discontinued themes. Go figure.) Here's a live demo of the Christmas Lights theme from TemplateMonster.

The site iSkysoft has a good list of free Christmas images. Many of the links point to wallpapers; these can be resized to be usable as smaller images, as shown here.
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image: Christmas wallpaper
Christmas wallpaper, iSkysoft
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Then there's Elf Yourself. It's up to 1.2 billion visitors and counting. With it you can take a photo with your webcam, save it to your desktop, and send it to Facebook. There are apps for iPhone and Android. (You must agree to the terms and conditions before you can operate the site options.)

-- Marge






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