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Wish with an E-card

They are fast, cute, colourful and best of all free. E-cards created a revolution in the world of wishes. Here is a selection of some of the cool and funky sites for electronic greeting cards.


WHILE IT is true that you cannot hang up e-cards, on the plus side is the fact that you do not have to cart them to the post office, cross check a million times if you have put sufficient postage, get your fingers majorly icky with the gum, worry eternally if the stamps fell off and if you have got the address right - the possibilities are as usual endless. So check out these websites for the coolest cards on the net.

Castle Mountain Postcards

http://www.castlemountains.com: They have a huge variety of cards and graphics to choose from, and they also feature special effects and java applets. You can also put poetry on the cards you send and music too! Definitely one to bookmark for future use!

Blue Mountain electronic greeting cards

http://www1.bluemountain.com/index.html: It is jam-packed with cards in all kinds of categories, and there are interesting features that always change. There are lots more here including games and screensavers. They also feature cards in different languages. Send your friend a card in French just for kicks!

MessageMates.com

http://stuart.messagemates.com/index.html: This very unique site features cards, cartoons and comedy. Send an animated greeting to your friends! If you haven't visited this site yet, you don't know what you're missing!! Definitely a very well designed and fun site.

Gurl


http://www.gurl.com/postcards: The site features lots of quirky and colourful cards to send to your girlfriends. And along with all their other cool features such as sending roses, you can send one or a few of their adorable cards free.

E Cards

http://www.ecards.com: E-Cards is an organised, eye-pleasing site that's colourful and very easy to use. There is a variety of postcards to choose from, including humorous animation, special occasions and holidays, and photos of endangered species.

Electronic Post Cards

http://www.ElectronicPostcards.com : Electronic postcards is a good site, even if it's rather dull-looking at first. With fewer categories than the other sites, this site is still fun to use if you've already sent all the others at the other sites. There are some pretty cute animations on this site.

Gibson Greetings

http://www.gibsongreetings.com: Gibson greetings creates some excellent animated comics which are entertaining, multimedia enhanced E-mail messages designed to add fun and personality to online communication. Their line up includes cards based on movies (Austin Powers) as well as purely original comic material.

American Greetings

http://www.americangreetings.com: Visit AmericanGreetings.com for a look at some great resources.

You can send online greeting cards, make your own greeting cards online and then print at home, or get free animated comics. In particular, comic strip fans will want to check out the many daily and weekly comics.

123 greetings

http://www.123greetings.com: If you want to wish your loved one, say thanks or hello, or congratulate them, then this is the right place. You do not have to go out and spend time looking for the `perfect' card. You will find something cute and funny, fun, fast and, best of all, free here.

Hallmark

http://www.hallmark.com: The mother of all card companies, the site is worth visiting if you want to wish friends, family, neighbours and anyone else you know. Show your spirit in the form of greeting cards.

AYYAPPA NAGUBANDI

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