🎄 Season's Greetings Card 2025

A customizable HTML-based greeting card with personalized parameter layouts and QR code integration.

📋 Features

• Print-ready HTML/CSS card template
• Standard A7 (5" × 7") folded card format
• Customizable parameter layouts for two recipients
• QR code generation pointing to this repository (or your custom URL)
• Easy to modify and version control

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• A modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
• Optional: Node.js for QR code generation

Basic Usage

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/lalbacore/xmas-card-2025.git
   cd xmas-card-2025

2. Open card.html in your web browser

3. Print using your browser:

   • File → Print
   • Set to Letter/A4 paper
   • Landscape orientation
   • No margins
   • Save as PDF or print directly

4. Fold the printed card:

   • Fold horizontally (long edge to long edge)
   • Fold vertically (short edge to short edge)
   • Result: Front has "Season's Greetings", inside has Bob/Alice, back has QR code

🎨 Customization

Change Recipient Names

Edit card.html and find:

<h2>Bob</h2>
<!-- and -->
<h2>Alice</h2>

Change QR Code URL

The default QR code points to: https://github.com/lalbacore/xmas-card-2025

To generate a new QR code with your custom URL:

./generate-qr.sh "https://your-custom-url.com"

Modify Card Colors/Fonts

Edit styles.css - all styling is centralized there.

📐 Card Layout

The card uses a standard 4-panel layout on letter-size (8.5" × 11") paper:

┌─────────────┬─────────────┐
│   Panel 4   │   Panel 1   │
│   (Front)   │   (Back)    │
│  Season's   │   QR Code   │
│  Greetings  │             │
├─────────────┼─────────────┤
│   Panel 2   │   Panel 3   │
│ (Inside L)  │ (Inside R)  │
│    Bob      │    Alice    │
│ Parameters  │ Parameters  │
└─────────────┴─────────────┘

🎁 Easter Egg Ideas

Want to track who scans the QR code? Consider setting up a redirect service:

• Use a URL shortener with analytics (bit.ly, tinyurl with stats)
• Host a simple redirect on your own domain
• Add fun surprises (first 10 scans get one message, rest get another)

📝 License

MIT License - feel free to fork, modify, and share!

🤝 Contributing

Found a bug or want to add features? PRs welcome!

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