Christmas is nearby and you would be looking to test out a new christmas wordpress theme or else some different effects which would be a new blog header, background or falling snow which falls from the top of the screen towards the status bar. Last year we had written about a Christmas Snowfall Plugin which seems to be not available now, which is the reason iam going to refer you to a new effect code which can be easily implemented.
This Javascript based snowmaker is quite good because it loads the font types which look like snowflake images and does not actually require you to host any images and load them which can be bandwidth consuming too. Just add the following code anywhere after the <body> Tag on your theme files or near the footer of your blog.
<script>
// CREDITS: // Snowmaker Copyright (c) 2003 Peter Gehrig. All rights reserved.
// Distributed by http://www.hypergurl.com // Permission given to use the script
on webpages provided that this notice remains as is. // Set the number of snowflakes
(more than 30 - 40 not recommended) var snowmax=35 // Set the colors for the snow.
Add as many colors as you like var snowcolor=new Array("#aaaacc","#ddddFF","#ccccDD")
// Set the fonts, that create the snowflakes. Add as many fonts as you like var
snowtype=new Array("Arial Black","Arial Narrow","Times","Comic
Sans MS") // Set the letter that creates your snowflake (recommended:*) var
snowletter="*" // Set the speed of sinking (recommended values range
from 0.3 to 2) var sinkspeed=0.6 // Set the maximal-size of your snowflaxes var
snowmaxsize=22 // Set the minimal-size of your snowflaxes var snowminsize=8 //
Set the snowing-zone // Set 1 for all-over-snowing, set 2 for left-side-snowing
// Set 3 for center-snowing, set 4 for right-side-snowing var snowingzone=3 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CONFIGURATION ENDS HERE ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Do not edit below this line var snow=new Array() var marginbottom var marginright
var timer var i_snow=0 var x_mv=new Array(); var crds=new Array(); var lftrght=new
Array(); var browserinfos=navigator.userAgent var ie5=document.all&&document.getElementById&&!browserinfos.match(/Opera/)
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all var opera=browserinfos.match(/Opera/)
var browserok=ie5||ns6||opera function randommaker(range) { rand=Math.floor(range*Math.random())
return rand } function initsnow() { if (ie5 || opera) { marginbottom = document.body.clientHeight
marginright = document.body.clientWidth } else if (ns6) { marginbottom = window.innerHeight
marginright = window.innerWidth } var snowsizerange=snowmaxsize-snowminsize for
(i=0;i<=snowmax;i ) { crds[i] = 0; lftrght[i] = Math.random()*15; x_mv[i]
= 0.03 Math.random()/10; snow[i]=document.getElementById("s" i) snow[i].style.fontFamily=snowtype[randommaker(snowtype.length)]
snow[i].size=randommaker(snowsizerange) snowminsize snow[i].style.fontSize=snow[i].size
snow[i].style.color=snowcolor[randommaker(snowcolor.length)] snow[i].sink=sinkspeed*snow[i].size/5
if (snowingzone==1) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright-snow[i].size)} if (snowingzone==2)
{snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)} if (snowingzone==3) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size) marginright/4}
if (snowingzone==4) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size) marginright/2}
snow[i].posy=randommaker(2*marginbottom-marginbottom-2*snow[i].size) snow[i].style.left=snow[i].posx
snow[i].style.top=snow[i].posy } movesnow() } function movesnow() { for (i=0;i<=snowmax;i )
{ crds[i] = x_mv[i]; snow[i].posy =snow[i].sink snow[i].style.left=snow[i].posx lftrght[i]*Math.sin(crds[i]);
snow[i].style.top=snow[i].posy if (snow[i].posy>=marginbottom-2*snow[i].size
|| parseInt(snow[i].style.left)>(marginright-3*lftrght[i])){ if (snowingzone==1)
{snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright-snow[i].size)} if (snowingzone==2) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)}
if (snowingzone==3) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size) marginright/4}
if (snowingzone==4) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size) marginright/2}
snow[i].posy=0 } } var timer=setTimeout("movesnow()",50) } for (i=0;i<=snowmax;i )
{ document.write("<span id='s" i "' style='position:absolute;top:-" snowmaxsize "'>" snowletter "</span>")
} if (browserok) { window.onload=initsnow } </script>
Thats it you will start seeing some excellent snow flakes falling on your screen when you visit your blog url, also works on most latest web browsers.
oh!! Thanks for giving the js i am going to check now..
not working.