Do you do holiday templates?

**Soliloquy** · 07-17-2008, 07:22 AM

On one forum I've been slowly adding to the template collection for the holidays. What was originally intended to be the Easter template actually became the default because everyone loved it and wanted to keep it. Then I made a winter template for the Christmas season (which is gorgeous if I do say so myself), but it was so graphic-intensive and using up so much bandwidth I'm not going to put it up very long this year. I also made a Valentine's template this year and just asked a member with artistic ability if she'd draw a Halloween template.
I don't do this for all of my forums yet, just the one because the members really get into it.

**Caddyman** · 07-17-2008, 08:00 AM

I DO I DO!

The screenshot i used to my ad page i took when TD was christmassed up!!!

I think it adds a great personal touch. Also if im feelin froggy i use the vbseasons plugin to make a java snow or other effect show up on the site....

man did i have fun with the members on april fools inserting random crazy pics into the header.....lol

**Soliloquy** · 07-17-2008, 08:16 AM

Last April Fool's Day I used the Encheferizer and changed everybody's avatar to a random image of the Swedish Chef. (Kids, don't try this at home, everybody hated it aand stopped posting.) This year I flipped the template (images and text) backwards using flipped images and CSS. There was some pandemonium but they kept posting this time

**Caddyman** · 07-17-2008, 08:25 AM

for this april fools the members were complaining really bad cause i took their beloved shoutbox away. So april 1st i enabled it and took a screenshot. i inserted the screenshot where the box should have been and linked it to a thread saying "April FOOLS!" really big in red......i got them GOOODDD

**Soliloquy** · 07-17-2008, 08:33 AM

bwahaha! Caddyman, that was evil

but maybe I should try something like that... :wink:

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-17-2008, 07:11 PM

I'm not that great at templates, I'm happy to have a good default style

**Soliloquy** · 07-17-2008, 09:32 PM

You certainly don't have to do an entire custom template for the holidays; you might just add some snow or maybe a Santa hat to the logo.

**FoxyWL** · 07-18-2008, 01:07 AM

i do a christmas one but thats it

07-19-2008, 09:16 AM

I might just do like a Christmas one this year.

**Soliloquy** · 07-19-2008, 12:51 PM

I just started a new thread with a link to a good "snow on text" tutorial, maybe others will chime in with more along those lines

**Crystal S** · 07-20-2008, 09:55 AM

No, but I've been thinking about it for a while. When we were on Invisionfree, I'd put up a temporary banner that had a message saying, "Happy New Year!" or whatever the holiday was. Since we've moved to vBulletin, though, I haven't set things up entirely. I've been focusing on mods more than anything.

~Crystal

**Soliloquy** · 09-09-2008, 07:12 PM

Here's another add-on that might get people into the holiday spirit... I've installed this, but never rolled it out to the members... I don't like the images.
Advent Calendar - vBulletin.org Forum

**Caddyman** · 09-26-2008, 06:07 PM

as the holiday draws near just today a member on TalkDE posted and asked me when i am going to change the header pic cause it is no longer summer..lol

**Soliloquy** · 09-26-2008, 09:55 PM

eventually I plan to have a template for each season, right now I have the summer one up year round except for Christmas and Valentine's...