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.
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