Free Digital Post Cards

 

Free digital greeting cards are a fun and easy way to send a personalized greeting to your friends and family. Typically, the way these services work is you select an image and type in a personalized greeting. Your recipient then will receive an E-mail message, directing her or him to a Web site to view your card.

Regards.com - This hot new free digital postcard site offers the "Dancing Baby" card as well as cutting-edge, "multimedia story" cards (they're in the "Specialty Cards" category). These cards greet the recipient with a music-enhanced story, with a message and nice animation. These cards are sent as E-mail attachments and require Windows 95 or 3.1. Regards.com also offers standard digital postcards which can be sent instantly from the site.

  • ElectronicPostcards.com - This advertiser-supported free service features musical digital postcards in many categories. Images include fine art (everyone from Manet to Pollock) and photography. Categories include birthday, friendship, get well, inspiration, insults, love, miss you and thank you. There's also over 100 songs from which you may choose for background music for your card.
  • Outback digital postcards - The Aussie restaurant chain has a hyterically funny free digital postcard service. Just pick a story, fill in your choice of nouns and verbs and let the fun begin.
  • Activegrams - This clever, innovative site offers free animated entertainment and greetings, delivered by E-mail. Activegrams range from occasion-based messages to comic strip serials to absurdist animations with sounds effects, etc. They can be delivered in several ways: as an E-mail attachment; as HTML mail; or they can be placed on a custom page whose URL is E-mailed to the recipient.
  • E-Cards - This is one of the better digital greeting card services around. The number of image categories is vast and includes: "Current holidays and special events," "Animals," "Indigenous Peoples" and "Art." You can also send V-Cards (Internet Camera Postcards) here. V-Cards are connected to Internet cameras, which intermittently take new snapshots. A V-Card of "sunny Antarctica" may change to "Antarctica at night" by the time the recipient picks up the card. This site is supported by advertising and every card you send from this site results in a donation to the World Wildlife Fund.
  • Penny Lane -Tthis is a pretty cool free digital postcard service with a rock theme. Choose a postcard themed after your favorite band: the Beatles, Stones, U2, Wallflowers, etc.
  • The Print Shop LiveMail - This isn't just another digital postcard site. Rather, it's a software program (the "Lite" version of which is free) that allows you to custom build cool animated cards that you can send to anyone with a Java-enabled (read: non-ancient) browser. The intuitive interface makes it easy for you to add text, images, sounds and animations to your card.
  • Postcards from Prison - This decidedly offbeat free digital greeting card service offers various memorable images from the annals of crime and justice. From Clint Eastwood in "Escape from Alcatraz" to James Cagney in "Angels with Dirty Faces," to real-life prison photos, you'll find it here.
  • The Digital Postcard - This is a major, well-done E-mail greeting service. Many images are available and you can customize your digital postcard's color, backgrounds and music. You can even link to any picture and/or sound on the Web. You can even add a sound selection from your own computer. The Digital Postcard allows Webmasters to add its service to their own Web site---a sure way to pull in more visitors!
  • LoveGram - This site offers over 75 designs. Topics include: flowers, emotions, exotic, "Your Pic," nostalgia, fun and more. Just select the thumbnail image you want and fill in your personalized message in the form. You can also add a poem to your card, as well as music.
  • Cyrano Server - Are you too shy to tell someone you love how you feel? Then click over to this innovative site, which will write your love letter for you, based on your input. Note: site requires the Shockwave plugin for your browser.
  • Virtual Insults - Are you pissed off at someone and want to tell them how you really feel? Send them a "virtual insult," something that's best described as an "anti-greeting card." Here, you can select a nice, witty (or not so witty) insult and customize it with sound effects (such as the sound of a toilet flushing), your own message, etc.
  • Send someone an "E-Kiss" - This free service offers the "E-Kiss," a form of online postcard. The sender picks what kind of kiss they like, adds a message, and sends it (via E-mail) to someone. The receiver gets an E-mail which tells them that someone has sent them a kiss, where to go to view it, and gives them a unique "Kisscode" that allows them to retrieve the correct kiss.
  • CoolCards - You can use this freeware program to create and send multimedia notes: "thank you" notes, flames, invitations, birthdays, etc. Your recipient gets the digital card as a tiny attachment to an E-mail message. There's no need to go to a pickup site on the Web, no special viewer required (just a browser or a JPEG viewer).
  • Celebration Cards - This site offers free digital postcards in several categories: seasonal holiday greetings, virtual roses, "5-minute vacations" and cartoons.
  • Shawna's Virtual Flowers - Here, you can send a flower-themed digital postcard for that special person in your life. Many images here and you can customize your "arrangements." Categories include: anniversaries, birthdays, congratulations, get well, "I'm sorry," new baby, sympathy, "Just for Men," and exotic flowers. You can include a MIDI sound file with your greeting.
  • Cgreetings: Animated Greeting Cards - Send an animated greeting card. Categories include "Friendship," "Love," "Birthday," "Congratulations," "Hello," "Thank you," "Wedding," "Anniversary," and "Get Well."
  • ArtNet Italia - ArtNet Italia, a dazzing arts site in its own right, now offers classy digital postcards that feature photos, painting and sculptures. You may preview your card before sending it. Languages supported include English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Hindi.
  • Cine Chennai Cards - This service offers free images from Bollywood (India's version of Hollywood).
  • 123Greetings - This site lets you send a personalized greeting card. More than 100 occasions & 500 different cards online. You can send pizzas, kisses, hugs, smiles & flowers. And if you run a Web site, this site allows you to easily create your own greeting card site for free---something that can help boost visitors!
  • Titanic Postcards - This clever site allows you to send "Marconigrams," which have a period look & feel and look like actual correspondence from the doomed ocean liner.
  • Blue Mountain Arts Greeting Cards - An extensive site that lets you send musical, animated greeting cards for every occasion. Topics include: friend, birthday, congratulations, love, kids, new baby, support, "Follow Dreams," sympathy, get well, family, wedding/anniversary, thanks, thinking of you, apology, graduation, vacation and welcome back. The site also features specialized topics, including Shakespear, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, endangered species, wolves, Chinese New Yera, Native Americans, Interactive Art, 3D and stereograms
  • I Luv You.com - This site is offering "1-Step free personalized Internet Web cards." Easy to set up; just fill out the form.
  • Romantic Electronic Greetings - Choose from among an array of romantic images and send your loved one a digital postcard.
  • Princess Diana Digital Postcard - This site offers greeting cards featuring the great lady. Other choices available, as well.
  • CyBEAR Gram - This site lets you send cute, teddy bear images. You may also include a song with your greeting. Selections include "Pretty Woman," "In the Mood," "Happy Birthday," and more.
  • City of the Silent: Postcards from the Grave - This decidedly different E-mail card site offers over 30 images of tombstones, cemeteries and various macabre images, which you can send anonymously, if you wish. (You may also add music). The site supports the following languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Hindi, Swiss, German. The only drawback to this site is that, after you select an image, you must make a note of its associated number and return to the welcome page to send your card.