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Let It Snow!

Thursday, 1 December 2011

It's December, which means it's near enough Christmas, which means it's time for the return of the blog snow! If you're reading this via spellmaking.blogspot.com, you should be seeing it now ...

Ho, ho and, indeed, ho.



My thanks to Scott Schiller for the code that draws the snow. If you want it on your blog, too, just create one of them HTML/JavaScript gadgets for your sidebar or something and paste in this code :

<script src="http://files.main.bloggerstop.net/uploads/3/0/2/5/3025338/snowstorm.js" type="text/javascript">
snowStorm.snowColor = '#99ccff';
snowStorm.flakesMaxActive = 128;
snowStorm.useTwinkleEffect = true;
</script>

And that should do it. There are a few things you can tweak if you go and look at his original JavaScript. Enjoy!

Posted by Simon Kewin at 08:00

18 comments:

  1. fairyhedgehog1 December 2011 at 08:18

    I rather like that.

    I gave it a try on my blog but it runs too slowly for some reason.

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  2. Simon Kewin1 December 2011 at 08:36

    fairyhedgehog,

    That's a shame! If you have a lot of other Javascript and gadgets and such running it might get a bit slow. We'll just have to hope for the real thing ...

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  3. Thomas Taylor1 December 2011 at 08:55

    Pretty! As long as it's not dandruff;)

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  4. Simon Kewin1 December 2011 at 11:03

    Thomas. Heh. No, it's definitely snow.

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  5. Anonymous1 December 2011 at 11:12

    I want snow!

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  6. Simon Kewin1 December 2011 at 11:39

    Donna,

    Real snow I can't do - but do have some virtual!

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  7. Ellen Brickley1 December 2011 at 14:08

    I like that! The joy of snow without the wet feet!

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  8. Simon Kewin1 December 2011 at 14:10

    Ellen,

    Hard to have a decent snowball fight though ...

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  9. Deborah Walker1 December 2011 at 17:11

    What? No hat?

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  10. Karen Jones Gowen1 December 2011 at 17:48

    And I also like your sparkling Christmas tree!

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  11. Simon Kewin1 December 2011 at 20:50

    Deborah,

    Yes, don't know whay the hat hasn't shown up yet. It will soon, I promise!

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  12. Simon Kewin1 December 2011 at 20:50

    Glad you like it, Karen.

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  13. Anonymous1 December 2011 at 21:28

    Ho HO! Very festive. And congrats on reaching your November Write1Sub1 goals, Simon!

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  14. Deborah Walker2 December 2011 at 08:24

    That hat is back. Christmas is coming.

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  15. Jeff Chapman2 December 2011 at 18:04

    Like the snow. It might be appearing on my blog, too. I have some real snow on the ground outside my window. Congrats on the recent publications and meeting your W1S1 goals.

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  16. Guilie Castillo2 December 2011 at 18:10

    Super cool! Thanks for sharing this, Simon :) Will give it a try right now--and congratulations on the publication of Her Pale Smile!

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  17. Lydia Gray3 December 2011 at 05:22

    Nice Snow!

    I'll see if I can get it to work on mine.

    Congrats on W1S1!

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  18. Simon Kewin3 December 2011 at 09:38

    Thanks, Lydia - I see you got it working!

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I'd love to know what you think.