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Hell Bomb Hell Bomb is offline 11-27-2009, 10:00 PM

Hello everyone, I was talking to one of my moderators about a month ago and he was asking me why don't we have holiday announcements. I never really gave it much of a thought but i decided to open a poll asking people if there would be interested in celebrating holidays on the forum, and it turns out that a lot of people really liked the idea. I so i decided to give it a try and it turns out that since we started celebrating holidays, specifically Thanksgiving we got almost 100 new users over a 3 day period. That's about 10 times more then usual.

Some tips to celebrate.
- Create a theme based on that holiday
- Hold holiday contests
- give holiday awards
- Think of other ideas be creative.

Here is a list of holidays that me and my staff came up with.

Code:
New Years Day  	January 1  	
Martin Luther King Jr. 	January 19 	
Groundhog Day 	February 2 	
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 	February 7 	
St. Valentine`s Day 	February 14 	
Lincoln's Birthday 	February 12 	
George Washington's Birthday 	February 22 	
Carnival / Mardi Gras 	February 24 	
April Fool's Day 	April 1 	
Easter Sunday 	April 12 	
Earth Day 	April 22 	
Veterans Day 	November 11 	
Thanksgiving 	November 26 	
Christmas 	December 25
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Old 11-29-2009, 09:22 AM
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nice simple tips
thanks
however these days are the least traffic days
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tes_of_America

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    * 1 January - New Year's Day
    * 19 January - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (3rd Monday of January, traditionally Jan. 15)
    * 20 January - Inauguration Day
    * 1 February - Super Bowl Sunday (currently the first Sunday of February)
    * 2 February - Groundhog Day
    * 14 February - Valentine's Day
    * 16 February - Presidents Day (officially George Washington's Birthday; 3rd Monday of February, traditionally Feb. 22)
    * 25 February - Ash Wednesday (Christian; moveable based on Easter)
    * 17 March - St. Patrick's Day (Christian)
    * 20 March - Vernal Equinox (based on sun)
    * 1 April - April Fools' Day
    * 5 April - Palm Sunday (Christian; Sunday before Easter)
    * 9 April - First day of Passover (Jewish; moveable based on Jewish calendar)
    * 10 April - Good Friday (Christian; Friday before Easter)
    * 12 April - Easter Sunday (Christian; moveable; Sunday after first full moon during spring)
    * 13 April - Easter Monday (Christian; Monday after Easter)
    * 16 April - Last Day of Passover (Jewish; moveable, based on Jewish Calendar)
    * 20 April - Patriot's Day/Marathon Monday (New England and Wisconsin only)(3rd Monday of April)
    * 22 April - Earth Day, Administrative Professionals Day/Secretaries Day (Wednesday of the last full week of April)
    * 24 April - Arbor Day (last Friday of April)
    * 5 May - Cinco De Mayo (Mexican holiday often observed in US)
    * 10 May - Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May),
    * 25 May - Memorial Day (last Monday of May, traditionally 30 May)
    * 31 May - Pentecost Sunday (Christian; 49 days after Easter)
    * 14 June - Flag Day
    * 21 June - Father's Day (3rd Sunday of June), Summer Solstice (based on sun)
    * 4 July - Independence Day
    * 22 August - First day of Ramadan (Islamic, moveable based on Lunar calendar)
    * 7 September - Labor Day (first Monday of September)
    * 11 September - Patriot Day
    * 13 September - Grandparents Day (second Sunday of September)
    * 19 September - Rosh Hashanah (Jewish; moveable, based on Jewish calendar)
    * 20 September - Last day of Ramadan (Islamic, moveable based on Lunar calendar)
    * 21 September - Eid-al-Fitr/Day after the end of Ramadan (Islamic, moveable, based on lunar calendar)
    * 22 September - Autumnal equinox (based on sun)
    * 28 September - Yom Kippur (Jewish, moveable, 9 days after first day of Rosh Hashanah)
    * 3 October - First day of Sukkot (Jewish; moveable, 14 days after Rosh Hashanaah)
    * 9 October - Leif Erikson Day, Last Day of Sukkot (Jewish)
    * 10 October - Simchat Torah (Jewish; moveable, 22 days after Rosh Hashanah)
    * 12 October - Columbus Day (2nd Monday of October, traditionally Oct. 12)
    * 30 October - Mischief Night
    * 31 October - Halloween (Christian)
    * 1 November - All Saints Day (Christian)
    * 11 November - Veterans Day
    * 26 November - Thanksgiving (4th Thursday of November)
    * 27 November - Black Friday (Friday after Thanksgiving Day)
    * 7 December - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
    * 12 December - First day of Hanukkah (Jewish; moveable, based on Jewish calendar)
    * 19 December - Last day of Hanukkah (Jewish; moveable, based on Jewish Calendar)
    * 21 December - Winter Solstice (based on sun)
    * 23 December - Festivus
    * 24 December - Christmas Eve (Christian)
    * 25 December - Christmas Day (Christian)
    * 26 December - First day of Kwanzaa (Kwanzaa is celebrated until 1 January 2010)
    * 31 December - New Year's Eve
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Nice advice. I find it's definitely a popular thing when a forum changes the style or what not after the holiday in question, although don't forget there are more countries than just the USA...
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nice idea
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thanks dir
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