Art Advent Calendar 2023

White frost covers the tips of green leaves, green-brown twigs, and the round bright red berries of a holly bush.

Not sure how I missed it in previous years, but I only learned a couple weeks ago about the ninth annual Art Advent Calendar.

Started by Jay Bigam, a self-taught artist in Alberta, Canada, Art Advent Calendar launched in 2015 with the idea of brightening and improving timelines for folks on the platform originally called Twitter.

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Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2022 Edition

Advent of CSS: 24 CSS challenges for the season starts December 1. In the background, an illustration of a snowy scene of red houses and green evergreen trees.

Are you a fan of Advent calendars? I am!

Since 2012, I’ve published a roundup of online Advent calendars for people who work on the web.

Whether you’re a designer, developer, programmer, user experience professional, project manager, or writer, you’re bound to find an interesting Advent calendar in my collection.

This year’s roundup includes calendars focused on user experience, HTML, CSS, online digital security, PHP and more.

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WordPress Advent Calendar 2021

WordPress Advent Calendar showing three recent posts in a grid with thumbnail image and short description.

Longtime readers of my blog know I’ve been publishing a roundup of web professionals’ Advent Calendars for the past 10 years.

Focused on web design, user experience, web development, PHP, content strategy, accessibility, and more, the roundup has been one of my most popular annual posts.

As I was doing research this year for the Advent calendar roundup, I noticed there were no WordPress Advent calendars for 2021.

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