Can You Really Get Away With Falling Javascript Snow?
So with 22 sleeps until Christmas we finally stopped twiddling our thumbs and got around to making our Gifts UK website feel more “Christmasy”. The designers came up with a range of suggestions from falling snow, wacky logos, bursting Christmas lights, flying reindeer’s, dancing snowmen, animated elves… all the tacky Christmas stuff you’d expect.
In the end we went for a simple logo, by adding a Christmas hat to the first ‘G’ in the www.giftsguideuk.com logo (see it on the site). I like the logo, I think it suit’s the very simple logo and it definitely says Christmas.
I’ve also been over-ruled that the falling snowstorm javascript we’ve added to the site, which as you’d imagine simulates a snowstorm is a good idea. I love the tackiness of the effect, I like the fact it says Christmas, but I do also feel it’s too much.
So your opinions please, can anyone get away with falling snow on their website? Or should it be locked away to the archives of the 90′s?
