It's that time of year again, when stores, neighborhoods, classrooms, the internet, television, even the movies that are showing all reflect the spookiest time of the year - Hallowe'en. It's a great time to spruce up your web site (or create a new one) that adds to the nuance and fun of the season.

Create a Hallowe'en Website in a Snap

The easiest way to create a Hallowe'en website is to find a free or affordable ready-made Hallowe'en site template. All you need to do is download the template onto your computer, add content and customize navigation and titles, upload it to your server and voila - spooksville is now on your web block!

There are several wonderful designers who offer free Hallowe'en templates to enthused web owners.
For instance, afreewebtemplate.com offers four nice little linkware templates that you can download for free.

• Halloween Pumpkin Web Template - features a saucy pumpkinhead character flanked by he full moon with swirling bats, on a black background.


• Halloween Stray Cat Template - shows a sleek black cat perched along the header along with wispy tree branches and a bright orange pumpkin with a black and gray layout.


• Spooky Halloween Template - offers a spooky pumpkinhead, skeleton and barren tree branches on an orange and black layout.


• Halloween Web Template - combines ghostly figures, bats, and a large tree branch on an orange and white background.

As well, Mango Graphics offers a cute CSS web template with a scared black cat arching his back against the full moon on a black and orange layout. Download the Halloween template at:
http://www.mango-graphics.com/free/halloween.php,

Dotcom Web Design offers a classy huge full moon and wispy silvery branches template on a black background that is both sophisticated and eye catching, which is freely downloadable

Sharon McPherson of Templates, Themes and Graphics offers an inventive free web template with seven interchangeable spooky headers in both Photoshop and jpg formats for easy customization.
Check out her Hallowe'en Headers offering!

Twitter Backgrounds

Templates.com offers some unique Hallowe'en backgrounds for Twitter users. One is royal blue with misty shadowy trees and a unique Halloween character; another sports a great looking castle on a dark eerie brown and white background; a third sports an eerie elf against a dark blue bat-filled full moon sky; while the fourth sports a scary mechanical looking spider against a deep blood red background.

OTHER HALLOWE'EN WEB DECOR

Design Bliss offers several links and reviews of Hallowe'en web accessories such as icons, templates, vector art and clip art. Check out their recommendations for Hallowe'en icons, to get started.

Smashing Magazine also offers some useful and inventive Hallowe'en icons sporting skeletons, witches, cauldrons, jack o laterns, bats, and other spooky fare.

There's lots more available, both free and economically priced - so what's stopping you from putting your spookiest
foot forward on the web this Hallowe'en? Have a safe and fun time'een