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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Working with Web design clients can be challenging. They often expect miracles to happen while they wait, preferably only a couple of seconds. They want Web pages built from nothing and costing nothing and they expect you to deliver them yesterday. There are many aspects of Web design that have vary different interpretations if you are a non-Web designer than they do to Web designers. Pass along the 6 Things Your Web Designer Wants You to Understand to all your clients. And don't forget to add your own thoughts as well.

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This week I'm curious to find out what Web editors are popular. I know that there are many more Web editors than the 9 I've listed here, so if you use one not on the list, please list it in the comments. Chances are I already know about it, but I didn't realize it was as popular now. Why do you use the editor you use? What features do you find most useful? How do you keep the cost of your Web editor to a minimum? Do you prefer WYSIWYG editors or text editors? (And if you use more than one, choose your favorite or the one you use most often.)