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The holiday season is underway, and one option you have for adding a timely personal touch to your website is to create a sitewide holiday message that appears at the top of every page. This is an easy way to make your website feel current, spread some cheer, and inform users about shipping costs, deadlines or in-store hours. While dressing your site up with holiday images is always a good idea, if you don’t have the time or skills to create or upload festive graphics, don’t let that dampen your holiday cheer. A simple, text-based message can be effective. Don’t forget to set a reminder to remove your message once the holidays are over.

If you are a MightyMerchant customer, you can use the Messages feature to add a sitewide message. If you need help, just ask us.

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