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NATURE OF ECARDS ON THE WEB...



Ecards bring beauty and smiles to thousands of people worldwide

but what folks need to be aware of is that some of these cute

ecards carry malware with them ranging from simple spam, while

some will install nasty spyware and on rare ocasions even

viruses!



As a result many people have decided to ignore them completely,

however there are many really Beautiful cards, you just need to

know where to look for them.



We`ll take a look at some decent sites and software for ecards

that i`ve collected on the net that are tested as malware

negative and fun positive.



There are many ways to send your chosen ecards, and you can

easily create your own piece of art, while in my opinion the

easiest and maybe the best way to send an ecard is by using

email greeting cards.... EMAIL GREETINGS



SEND AN ECARD DIRECTLY TO EMAIL They allow you to send an ecard

directly to the recipients email box, he/she doesent need to go

online to see your card, they can see your card instantly in

Outlook or in a similar email program, that`s very convenient

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One of my favourites for this type of ecards, and well known

among people passionate for ecards is definetely Apple's iCard

service.



It enables you to choose from a range of different cards for

various occassions, you can enter some accompanying text and

then choose from four different fonts for the text. The picture

and text are then turned into a graphic and sent to your chosen

recipient, your recipient does not need to go through the

process of accessing a web site to "collect" their card. Check

out the iCard site here: http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/iCards.woa



Ze-Card is another fine site that enables you to send ecards

directly to the recipient's inbox. You'll find paintings by

great artists, flower photos, music and textures for your

greeting cards. You can also decorate your cards with a border

and fully customize the fonts of your greeting. Web-based mails

are supported.



USE OUTLOOK / EMAIL STATIONERY AS A CARD



Another useful way to send an ecard is email stationery. A

stationery is a reusable email template that you can use to send

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The procedure is rather simple: download an Outlook Express

background, then create a normal email message with Outlook

Express using this background. The "card" arrives as a normal

email message with music, animated background and any message

you want. If you dont use email program like Outlook Express you

could upload backgrounds into your webmail account.



Three sites I found that have a good selection of backgrounds

are: http://www.annettesstationery.com/index.htmand

http://outlookexpressstationery.com/.

http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/minogues/88/collctn.html

http://images.google.com ("outlook stationery") This article

describes how to create a stationery in Outlook Express.



You could also try Hotbar's email templates: It also has some

neat email smileys. http://www.hotbar.com



If you think creating your own virtual card is better, here are

some freeware programs that can do the job.



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FREEWARE FOR GREETING CARDS ... FreeCard



This program lets you create electronic cards with graphics or

video, text, music and sound to send with e-mail or on media.



Greeting cards are made into Windows executable files and they

expand, play, and clean up automatically on target PCs. A

Watermarking utility is included for embedding identifying and

linking information to your graphics and video materials.



Download it from here:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/mmedia/frc201.zip

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Features: Takes standard Windows bitmap (.BMP), video (.AVI),

MIDI music (.MID), WAVE sound (.WAV) material files and creates

multimedia e-cards. Each created e-card is a self-contained,

standalone Windows executable (.EXE) file. It runs and cleans up

automatically on target PCs.



Lets you record a sound and saves it into WAVE files. Created

ecards are very compact (starts at 70 KB) -- which is convenient

for sending electronically by e-mail or from Web sites.



For future use when looking for material like obscure midis, i

recommend usenet newsgroups: comp.music.midi or alt.music.midi

and if you need video clips use yahoo`s new video search engine.



CardMaker



Another good one is Cardmaker, it allows you to create your own

ecards easily, you need to register at their site but there`s a

little shortcut: go to this url. Once you are on the site: Click

on the download, when it takes you to the next page click on

"register", when it takes you to the registration page then fill

in the info and make up anything you would like on the righthand

side for the member name and password. That would NOT be your

real name, just something made up. Your real name goes on the

left side. Just fill out the parts with the red *. What you are

doing is just registering at the PCMag website so you can access

the download. You could probably use something like bush100 or

whatever it will accept. Once it accepts you, it should take you

to the download page so you can get the cardmaker, Enjoy it.



Belltech Greeting Cards Designer 2.0ECARDS This one is my first

choiceof the pack, this program is more professional as you can

see, it designs personalized cards for Birthdays, Wedding, and

other ocasions easily. The program comes with card templates,

clip art, background pictures to get you started. For fast out,

you just choose a template, personalize the messages and print.

You can use shapes like heart, call-out, moon, sun etc.

http://www.belltechsystems.com/greeting-card-software/default.asp



PrintMaster Express



An easy to use software, allows you to create create Greeting

Cards, Note and Business Cards, Banners, Calendars and other

kinds of Photo Projects.



It has features like "Add Sentiment", it allows you to choose

from different patterns of text for every ocasion. The lines are

very funny and will certainly come handy if you are struggling

with your creativity.



Printmaster download



You can import projects that other people made in Printmaster,

they are located at the printmaster server.



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While usually considered risky because of dumb*** who created

spyware/virus sites, these are clean and as you will see they

have something to offer ...



Hallmark Cards http://www.hallmark.com/webapp



Http://www.care2.com On this site every card sent helps the

environment. They are currently running a(non-obligatory)

petition to try and stop oil drilling in the Arctic which is

killing polar bears and whales. I doubt the US Senate will

listen, they have a poor record on such issues, but it's worth a

throw, better than doing nothing.



Another similar site http://www.thisiscool.org/ecards/index.htm

promotes rights of animals with pretty ecards.



My Postcards A very old and established site

http://mypostcards.com/top20.shtml Besides a collection of

ecards It also allows you to set up your own postcard site

http://mypostcards.com/bas



Tatty Teddy Ecards Very popular amongst fans of teddy bears....



BIRTHDAY ECARDS Is there an important birthday comming up? In

that case here are some worthy sites with birthday cards:



http://www.birthdaycards.com

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http://wickedmoon.com/birthday/index.php



http://www.free-greetingcards.co.uk/birthdaycards.htm



http://www.freewebcards.com/cards/birthday/index.shtml



http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/



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If you are like me and not very creative when it comes to

original text to put in a card/stationery. Here are a few sites

I use for inspiration: Birthday quotes:

http://www.birthdaycelebrations.net/shortquotes.htm Birthday

verses: http://www.njaol.com/cards/Verses/birthday.html Birthday

quotes: http://home.att.net/quotations/birthday.html



And if you do a search on Google or whatever search engine you

like, you will find a lot more quotes/sayings for almost every

occasion.



Conclusion



In this article, I have tried to give you a lot of good

information about where to find quality ecards. I hope you found

it useful. If you need more info I suggest this site:

http://dmoz.org/E-greetings/



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