Are you ready to spend some time (just a little bit of time) every day to become a better designer? Join me for the next year and design something new every day. Take the pledge and start designing something every day. And please, hold me accountable to this pledge. If you don't see a post from me (on my forum every day, feel free to ask me what's up, even if you're not participating in the challenge yourself. It might be hard, but I think it will be worth it. Let's get designing!

More About Daily Design Challenge

• Daily Design Challenge - Design Something Every Day for a Year
• Take the Pledge - Design Something Every Day

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Christmas is nearly upon us, and you might be thinking about decorating your site for the holidays. These free photos, clipart, and icons can help you get started.

Free Christmas Stock Photos from Smashing Magazine

A great group of photos from Smashing Magazine that you can use for free for anything you'd like. 27 photos in all.

Free Christmas Icons from Clever Icons

Mistletoe, a present, bells, a snowman, and a tree make up this fun and festive icon pack. It's packaged in a Windows installer.

Christmas Photos from FreePixels

Some very pretty photos for the Christmas season.

Reindeer Clipart from Christmas Graphics Plus

Some of these little deer are just adorable. And there are lots of other categories on the site as a whole.

Christmas Trees with Presents from About Web Clipart

Christmas trees make a site festive and these selections from my fellow Guide are fun and pretty.

Christmas Holiday Icons from Icon Dock

I liked the teddy bear icon so much, I decided to use it as my favicon on one of my personal sites. But there are also presents, lights, santa hats and more. And these icon sets come in several formats so you can use them for lots of different things on your site. Fun!

It's very common to see people write <3 to represent a heart in email, but you can use a special character code and create the heart right in your HTML. I ♥ special characters. These articles will show you how to write hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds, arrows, male and female symbols, even musical notes, flats and sharps.

More Symbols and Special Characters

• Add Symbols to Your Web Page
• Punctuation and Other Characters
• Currency Characters
• Mathematical Characters

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