How To Add Christmas Snow Fall Effect in Blogger

Friday, 13 June 2014

How To Add Christmas Snow Fall Effect in Blogger

Adding Special effects to your blog is a best way of blogging. Especially, Cool effects will make good impressions on your blog. I'm going to introduce a special snow falling effect over Css style codes. It is simply super for blogger blogs. Snow falling effect can be added to your blog without the help of java script. We can make snow falling effect on blog background by using CSS alone.

A major advantage of this snow effect is that no Java scripts used. In case of no using java scripts your blog can't be overloaded. Snow will flow from top to bottom of your blog. But content and links on your blog is not interfering with snow falling effect. Some of special effects may interfere with contents and links of the blog. But snow falling effect works only on background of the blog. So it prevents the interference of blog contents and effect.

How The Falling Snowflakes Widget Looks Like?

We have used four different types of snow falls effects that include, Breeze, Medium Snow, Snowflakes and Thunderstorm. It would complement those blogs which have dark colors because originally Snow is slightly white in shade. Thus, it wouldn’t appear so prominent on a site that has a white background. Check out the Following screenshot because it will clear all the doubts which are popping up in everyone’s mind.

Why this snow effect?

Neat and clean snow balls
Changes direction according to curser location
Takes less time to load
Doesn't affect loading time
Snow balls stick to the taskbar

How To Add Christmas Snow Fall Effect in Blogger

Please follow the below steps :

Log in to Blogger.
Go to Dashboard > Layout.
Click on "Add a Gadget".
Select HTML/Java Script widget.
Paste the following codes into the widget box :

<script type="text/javascript">

//Configure below to change URL path to the snow image

var snowsrc="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5JUs06EZdE0fhv3dzgIo9ehr5pdnih-APl7Ol2-ypY7iUjBowcXJHIo0uFoeEcZsOwal6rpgLYfs8VWOQ_6OOgMvn7_3vrZPSgxf32wP6EhPeXX0JoMN6Cz2s-xgxrbVYbrVOuCVqlc/s400/snow.gif"

// Configure below to change number of snow to render
var no = 30;

// Configure whether snow should disappear after x seconds (0=never):

var hidesnowtime = 0;

// Configure how much snow should drop down before fading ("windowheight" or "pageheight")

var snowdistance = "pageheight";

///////////Stop Config//////////////////////////////////

var ie4up = (document.all) ? 1 : 0;

var ns6up = (document.getElementById&&!document.all) ? 1 : 0;

    function iecompattest(){

    return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body

    }

var dx, xp, yp;    // coordinate and position variables

var am, stx, sty; // amplitude and step variables

var i, doc_width = 800, doc_height = 600;

if (ns6up) {

    doc_width = self.innerWidth;

    doc_height = self.innerHeight;

} else if (ie4up) {

    doc_width = iecompattest().clientWidth;

    doc_height = iecompattest().clientHeight;

}

dx = new Array();

xp = new Array();

yp = new Array();

am = new Array();

stx = new Array();

sty = new Array();

snowsrc=(snowsrc.indexOf("dynamicdrive.com")!=-1)? "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MsCdyoGtGdA/UX5gk72qNoI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/LaKTmUG-aJM/s1600/snow+falling+effect.gif" : snowsrc

for (i = 0; i < no; ++ i) {

    dx[i] = 0;                        // set coordinate variables

    xp[i] = Math.random()*(doc_width-50); // set position variables

    yp[i] = Math.random()*doc_height;

    am[i] = Math.random()*20;         // set amplitude variables

    stx[i] = 0.02 + Math.random()/10; // set step variables

    sty[i] = 0.7 + Math.random();     // set step variables

        if (ie4up||ns6up) {

      if (i == 0) {

        document.write("<div id=\"dot"+ i +"\" style=\"POSITION: absolute; Z-INDEX: "+ i +"; VISIBILITY: visible; TOP: 15px; LEFT: 15px;\"><a href=\"http://dynamicdrive.com\"><img src='"+snowsrc+"' border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>");

      } else {

        document.write("<div id=\"dot"+ i +"\" style=\"POSITION: absolute; Z-INDEX: "+ i +"; VISIBILITY: visible; TOP: 15px; LEFT: 15px;\"><img src='"+snowsrc+"' border=\"0\"><\/div>");

      }

    }

}

function snowIE_NS6() { // IE and NS6 main animation function

    doc_width = ns6up?window.innerWidth-10 : iecompattest().clientWidth-10;

        doc_height=(window.innerHeight && snowdistance=="windowheight")? window.innerHeight : (ie4up && snowdistance=="windowheight")? iecompattest().clientHeight : (ie4up && !window.opera && snowdistance=="pageheight")? iecompattest().scrollHeight : iecompattest().offsetHeight;

    for (i = 0; i < no; ++ i) { // iterate for every dot

      yp[i] += sty[i];

      if (yp[i] > doc_height-50) {

        xp[i] = Math.random()*(doc_width-am[i]-30);

        yp[i] = 0;

        stx[i] = 0.02 + Math.random()/10;

        sty[i] = 0.7 + Math.random();

      }

      dx[i] += stx[i];

      document.getElementById("dot"+i).style.top=yp[i]+"px";

      document.getElementById("dot"+i).style.left=xp[i] + am[i]*Math.sin(dx[i])+"px";

    }

    snowtimer=setTimeout("snowIE_NS6()", 10);

}

    function hidesnow(){

        if (window.snowtimer) clearTimeout(snowtimer)

        for (i=0; i<no; i++) document.getElementById("dot"+i).style.visibility="hidden"

    }

if (ie4up||ns6up){

    snowIE_NS6();

        if (hidesnowtime>0)

        setTimeout("hidesnow()", hidesnowtime*1000)

        }

</script>

Replace 30 to set falling snow ball numbers in your site

Save Your Gadget and place it anywhere you want

That’s it, the cool snow effect will be live on your blog, do let me know if you encounter with any of the errors in setting up the snow effect on your blogger blog.