Snow Falling Effect With Bells Widget For Your Blog

In this post I have a very cool Snow Falling Effect With Bells widget. You can use to super charge your blog over the Christmas. With just a small piece of code you have Snow Flakes gently falling down your blog. Adding Snow Falling Effect With Bells is very simple and I’m sure it won’t disrupt the readers. Before you add the Snow to your blog you can check out the demo.

LIVE DEMO

Adding Snow Falling Effect With Bells Widget

Adding To Blogger

Go to Design > Page Elements.
Click Add A Gadget.
In Add A Gadget window, select HTML/Javascript .
Copy the code below and paste it inside the content box.
Save the gadget.
Drag the gadget and reposition it under Blog Posts gadget.
Click Save button (top right hand corner).

Adding To WordPress

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Available Widgets.
Drag Text widget into a sidebar.
Paste in the code.
Save.

If below code is not working, please download this code

<script type="text/javascript">

            //Configure below to change URL path to the snow image
      var snowsrc="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAwjsOQZwbvCelU6RNBvhyt2FMqmsA_B_fCDuwDi86257TvCnIeEiOoAQ51KOiWXd7EFthpLYHCoqfN8Pu5muK0iIqOgVpMuoytra_TbDMHazf4JgEjjjXiDwVTx0RldEw37rzXfTqGI/s400/falling-snow.png"
      // Configure below to change number of snow to render
      var no = 15;
      // 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)? "   https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAwjsOQZwbvCelU6RNBvhyt2FMqmsA_B_fCDuwDi86257TvCnIeEiOoAQ51KOiWXd7EFthpLYHCoqfN8Pu5muK0iIqOgVpMuoytra_TbDMHazf4JgEjjjXiDwVTx0RldEw37rzXfTqGI/s400/falling-snow.png" : 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>

<br /> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTNWE__tI6ECG2GkrMqxZldRDdh6lYnTHDdd71HR664Jim4GWj35HRg61is4euus7e3kd666W99Ei7NLm4Yj4myUuwZCxBu55Y3wsyIqrfnbjz5wSBjEMu2ZmB6bTTpN7KRe-yFhOakE/s1600/christmas-bells-icon.png" style="position:fixed; top: 0px;left:0px;border:none;"/><img class="aneesh" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJ4W53nbmRm-ewvDk_cAFjJBS9ruMeDkmqtKXggMqzNu3IxmzzxP8XL43TQrFRYsbZOJliaZ8EJS46jqye9NB21Gk5QzWevPHCSQukKnzUNKtBD-sNfklVZ5arFqmS7lRaBaIXxvprRA/s1600/christmas-bells-icon-right.png" style="position:fixed; top: 0px;right:0px;border:none;"/><br />

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