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Christmas Icons and Christmas Wordpress Themes
Christmas is coming. As the holiday approaches, it’s time to get into the true Christmas spirit, decorating your personal desktop and adding some Christmas flavour to your recent designs or weblogs. And to decorate them accordingly, you might want to use some nice icons, wallpapers or even change your Worpdress-blog to a new Christmas theme.
We’ve selected high quality Christmas icons, and Christmas Wordpress themes. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. Not all listed freebies can be used for commercial projects, however you can use all of them in your private projects of for you personal purposes. Please read the disclaimers carefully before using icons – they’re changing from time to time.
You can also scan through the related articles we’ve published before:
- Christmas Wallpapers
Christmas themes might not be everyone’s favourite themes, but in december they can be found everywhere. So, who knows, maybe you’d like to decorate your desktop accordingly? Let’s take a look at some Xmas specials – for your desktop or current web-project.
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Christmas Icons
Christmas Icons
A set of 20 high-quality icons. Mac, Win. Png.
The Real Christmas RSS Icons
12 icons and 3 different backgrounds.
Christmas Social Icons
The “Christmas Social Bookmark Icons”, a collection of 17 freeware icons in iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Mister-Wong, Netvibes, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Ta-Da List, Technorati and You Tube. All icons are sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels.
iPod Christmas Icons
4 iPod icons of Christmas, 2 for white iPod, 2 for black iPod. Available for Linux, Mac, Win.
Winter Holiday Icons
Free Christmas icons.
Iconka.com Icon Sets
A number of icon sets free for personal use. Mostly .ico and .png. And mostly for Mac and Win.
Christmas Icons
12 “cartoonish” Christmas icons.
Christmas Icons
Cartoonish Christmas iconspack, 4x png, 4x ico.
Christmas Holiday Icons Pack
49 icons in various formats: GIF, PNG, ICO (favicon purpose), and vector EPS (print purpose). It is free. You can use them for any purpose — commercial or personal. Also 16×16px versions are available (mini-icons).
Christmas Icon set
BMP, PNG, GIF and ICO formats. 8bit and 32bit colours. Normal, Hot and Disabled states. Sizes ranging from 16×16 pixels all the way to a huge 256×256 pixels. Packed in a Windows-based installer
Christmas Icons
Free Christmas icons.
Polar Express Icons
This collection contains individual Christmas, holiday and winter icons.
Happy Holidays
Christmas, holiday and winter icons.
Wordpress Themes
Christmas Days Wordpress Theme
The theme has been tested on WordPress 2.3.1 with Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE6/7. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Iceburrg Wordpress Theme
Iceburgg is full of whites and blues, like winter itself. The theme has been crafted to meet our usual valid xhtml and css standards, and we’ve cleaned up the code as much as possible to make it the easiest we can for you to make your own edits and modifications.
Vermillon Christmas Wordpress Theme
Iceburgg is full of whites and blues, like winter itself. The theme has been crafted to meet our usual valid xhtml and css standards, and we’ve cleaned up the code as much as possible to make it the easiest we can for you to make your own edits and modifications.
Vermillon Christmas Wordpress Theme
Watch fireworks as you counting the countdown. Put new feel to your blog too with “New Year Wordpress Theme”. With a catchy header, you’ll impress your blog reader. Happy new year.
Christmas Wallpapers
- Christmas Wallpapers
Christmas themes might not be everyone’s favourite themes, but in december they can be found everywhere. So, who knows, maybe you’d like to decorate your desktop accordingly? Let’s take a look at some Xmas specials – for your desktop or current web-project. - Christmas Icons, Graphics, Designs
A collection of related resources and graphics.
Further Resources
- Christmas Icons, Graphics, Designs
A collection of related resources and graphics.
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- 2December 19th, 2007 4:53 am
Thanks for the great post . I am going to use some of the xmas icons .
- 3December 19th, 2007 4:58 am
Ah! At the right time. I was looking for some fresh new Christmas related stuffs to sprinkle to my site!
- 4December 19th, 2007 4:59 am
As usual you’ve been able to provide quality resources for those of whom haven’t been able to spice up their own website with a bit of christmas cheer. I’m sure that everyone will have fun with these in the next week and they’ll be popping up everywhere!
- 5December 19th, 2007 5:49 am
Perfect Timing, thanks ppl
- 6December 19th, 2007 5:51 am
Very nice icons there! Some very talented people around this internet thing.
- 7December 19th, 2007 6:03 am
Great article – thanks. Not too short, not too long.
Well done again…
- 8December 19th, 2007 6:23 am
And now perhaps some christmas fonts?
Like ‘Snowdrift’ or ‘Candies’ etc…
but then without the spammy links you find on other sites :-) - 9December 19th, 2007 7:23 am
Thanks for the link :)
- 10December 19th, 2007 7:30 am
Great post and a Merry Christmas to all! :)
- 11December 19th, 2007 11:43 am
The list really gets people into the mood for Christmas!
- 12December 19th, 2007 12:44 pm
Very interesting post. Thanks for the high quality icons, I’ll be using one on my blog! :)
- 13December 19th, 2007 2:35 pm
Oh no .. :( Its the first time I am disappointed on reading an article at SmashingMagazine…
Last few days I was actually searching the web to get some more wallpapers about Xmas to have a BlogPost :|
now SM has did IT
I am always too SLOW :(Anyway the post ROCKS SM !!
You did it nicer that I have planedMerry Christmas to all
- 14December 19th, 2007 7:20 pm
I noticed that one of the sites has some valentines icons. Will smashingmagazine be publichins a collection of free valentines icons in the near future?
- 15December 19th, 2007 7:21 pm
I noticed that one of the sites has some valentines icons. Will smashingmagazine be publishing a collection of free valentines icons in the near future?
- 16December 19th, 2007 9:29 pm
As usual, Wow! This is a great list. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.
- 17December 19th, 2007 10:43 pm
Oh are very beautiful!! Nice post!!! I love Christmas !!
- 18December 19th, 2007 10:49 pm
thanks for nice post! :)
- 19December 20th, 2007 4:26 am
This would have saved me SO much time when I was Christmas-izing everything a few weeks ago.
- 20December 20th, 2007 5:39 am
thank you so much for this beautiful logoss!!
the rss feed ones are my favorites!!very useful for my latest post =)
but btw. could someone tell me how can I change the rss icon in the navigation bar from my blog?? i wanted to put one of those x-mas rss icons, but haven’t found how to do it yet :(
- 21December 20th, 2007 3:10 pm
Feels like Christmas!
Thanks, i’m gonna put some icons on my blog. :) - 22December 20th, 2007 4:26 pm
What a great post for Christmas! Thanks & Merry Christmas to all :)
- 23December 20th, 2007 6:15 pm
Better late than never! These are excellent – thank you!
- 24December 23rd, 2007 4:51 am
i love the RSS icons! they are super kewl…
- 25December 24th, 2007 5:12 am
Thanks – this is a great set of Christmas images and themes.
- 26January 1st, 2008 3:43 pm
I found theme little late but I liked gift packages.
- 27November 1st, 2008 5:57 pm
Thank you for your site :-)
I made with photoshop backgrounds for myspace,youtube and ect..
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6rbxmr
all the best and thank you again! - 28November 20th, 2008 10:02 pm
The greatest collection of Christmas icons/backgrounds/themes on the web!
- 29December 17th, 2008 9:51 pm
Wow…! ^_^
it’s all wonderful, thx for share. GBU. - 30March 23rd, 2009 5:31 pm
The greatest collection of Christmas images and themes. Thanks.
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- 32November 14th, 2009 4:06 am
Hi, great article !
but the 12 “cartoonish” Christmas icons.links to a 404 page ! can you please help find them out ? thxs al lot !
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