We wanted to share with you a few ideas on how to use our holiday web templates and graphics. Holiday templates are not just for decorating your business or organization's website. Many people are using our holiday designs to quickly setup a section on their existing website with their family's holiday greeting card and a personal letter sharing their life's events over the past year. That is exactly what a family from St. Petersburg, Florida did this year and to put their visitors' in a more festive mood, they added a bit of background music to the holiday template they purchased from
BasicTemplates.com.
Great idea, wouldn't you agree? And it is far less expensive and time consuming than sitting down and addressing Christmas cards and then paying postage to snaaaaail mail them out at the last minute. As more and more people get Internet access in their homes and get email addresses, you can quickly send your family and friends a holiday email including your family's letter URL. Oh sure, you could just email them your family letter, but adding all of the personal touches that a web page can offer is far more intimate and the ideas to include on your page are endless.
We've listed a few ideas here to get you started. Once you start, the ideas will just keep coming!
- Add Christmas background music. Go to Google and type in "Christmas midi" and you will find tons of free midis to download to use as your background music.
- Add your family's holiday portrait, a photo of your Christmas tree, holiday home decorations, family pets dressed in their Santa hats, photos from the past year's vacation, birthdays, parties, etc.
- Add your favorite holiday recipes or new recipes you are trying.
- Add your family letter including all of the past year's happenings.
- Add a Christmas list for each family member including links to Amazon's wishlist, eBay, etc.
- Add important 2006 announcements, family event calendar, photo gallery, etc.
If you wanted to share your personal holiday page with co-workers or friends who might not care to read about your son's latest antics, there is no reason you couldn't create a separate section using the same or even a different holiday web template from BasicTemplates.com.
Remember,
all of our Christmas web templates and graphics will be 20% OFF through December. We just added three New Year's templates to this special savings event. So even if you don't have time to start a family holiday greeting section to your existing website this Christmas, you can still get a great price for next year's projects.
For those interested in adding background music to their holiday page, here are some simple instructions:
First, go to Google.com and search for "Christmas midi". You can find thousands of websites who offer free background music. There are several file formats: .mid, .wav and .mp3. The .mid file format is the smallest and will take less time to download for your visitors to hear.
Now copy/paste the following code into your web page where you want the embedded media player displayed:
<embed src="filename.mid" autostart="true" loop="false">You can change the attributes and values as follows:
The
src attribute indicates the file name including the path on you website's server where you have uploaded the file. You can use an absolute path or relative path.
The
autostart attribute instructs the sound file's behavior when the page initially loads. If you set this attribute's value to "true", the song file will begin playing automatically as soon as the page loads. If you state "false", the sound file will not start automatically. Your visitor will need to start the sound by clicking the button on the embedded media player.
The
loop attribute instructs the sound file how many times to play. If you have this attribute's value set to "true" then it will automatically play over and over. If you have it set to "false" it will play only once and then stop.
The
hidden attribute relays to the browser whether it should hide the media player on the web page. If you set this attribute's value to true, your website visitors will not be able to stop the sound unless they close the browser window (or leave your website completely). Keep in mind that not everyone likes background music, some folks may have a slow Internet connection, or may not have the same taste in music as you do. Use the appropriate value for this attribute based on who will be visiting your website.
Happy Holidays everyone! May your holiday season be safe and joyous!
The Design Team & Staff @
BasicTemplates.com
// posted by BasicSusan on 12/23/2005 07:18:00 AM / Permanent Link
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