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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.
We here at The Free Site have our own digital greeting card service. Click here to send a digital postcard through The Free Site's digital postcard service.
There are many other fine digital postcard services on the Web. Below, we list some of the more notable services. Send us E-mail if you're aware of any services that we haven't listed below and we'll consider them for a listing. Note: all materials on The Free Site are copyrighted, 1998.
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 3D Christmas Free Digital Cards - This wonderful, unique free service lets you send Christmas greetings in the form of 3D animated greeting cards. The cards can be personalized to include your message. No special software is required to view these cards; they use 3D Planet's own embedded animation player (and you send them as executable E-mail attachments). Selections here include Singing Santa, Holiday Poinsettias, Musical Christmas Tree and Peace on Earth.
- Regards.com Digital Postcards - This excellent, free digital postcard site offers the original "Dancing Baby" card, as well as an impressive collection of cards for any occasion, which you can personalize, preview, and send instantly from the site. Categories include "Holidays," "Ethnic," "Entertainment," and "Classics." Regards.com offers a lovely collection of Christmas greeting cards.
 Virtual Insults - OK, so sometimes you don't want a greeting card with all these sappy "I love you" Hallmark sentiments. There's someone out there who's annoying you and you want to tell them what you REALLY think. Virtual Insults has got what you need. Here, the fine art of insults is personified. You can send someone a witty (or not so witty) insult, complete with sound effects (such as a toilet flushing, etc.) Perfect for all "occasions."
- One Stop Card Shop - Nice new free digital postcard site with a small, but growing selection of original card images to choose from. Categories include gemstones, underwater, flowers, weddings and birthdays. Just browse through the thumbnail images; select the one you want and add a personalized touch and you're all set.
- Virtual Post Cards - Here's a nice up-and-coming free digital postcard service. Card topics include cats, flowers, sunsets, landscapes and butterflies and more are promised soon. There are some lovely photographic images here.
- Sourd-Prise Digital Postcards - This interesting free digital card site is the only site we've seen that offers E-cards with pictures related to the topic of deafness and sign language. (Available in English and French).
- Postcards of Italy - This site offer free digital postcards featuring lovely images of landscapes and monuments in Italy. They also offer romantic and humor postcards.
- Greetings Online - This free greeting card service offers more than just your typical Web page-based card. Greetings Online's cards are sent as attachments with your E-mail. Just select the category you want and pick a card from one of the thumbnail images. You can then preview, customize and send your card. The cards here all include animations, sound effects and background MIDI music. Your recipient will receive your card via an executable attachment. For Windows: Macintosh deliverable cards coming soon.
- Fork-O-Grams - Have you ever stumbled across a really bad Web site? You know, the ones that take forever to load. And when they do load, there's nothing worthwhile to see? Or the ones with the really painful backgrounds that makes it hard to see the text? Well, send that site's Webmaster a "Fork-O-Gram." It's a free message that you can easily send any Web site owner that lets them know that they need to work on making their site better.
- Bravenet.com: host your own card service - This popular Webmaster site offers a free service that lets you host your own greeting card service (a sure way to bring more visitors to your site!) Be sure to check out Bravenet.com's other free services, such as a local search engine for your site, free Web forums, hit counters, E-mail forms and more.
- Abstract Painting Digital Postcards - You can get free digital postcards at this site that feature lovely abstract photos and paintings by artist Hayato Tominaga and others. (Offered in English and Japanese).
- Inspirational Greeting Cards - These are lovely, "Christ-centered" free electronic greeting cards. They feature beautiful images, sound effects, background music and Bible verses. Download one and attach it to an E-mail. Your recipient may then simply doubleclick the program and enjoy a multimedia presentation.(Download time is about two minutes with a 28.8 modem.)
- 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!
- Virtual Chocolate - Send your fellow chocolate lovers a virtual treat at this quality free digital postcard service. Just select a delectable chocolate image and type in your personal message. These "treats" are mouthwatering (and calorie-free!)
- HastaLaVista Postcards - This free service offers nice-looking animated digital postcards. Categories include "Games," "Congratulations," "Animals," "Love," and "Art." A German version of this site is also available.
- MessageMates - This service offers cool, free digital animations that you can personalize and send as E-mail attachments. Themes are added every week. Current topics include Frank Sinatra, "Alienz," and the World Cup.
- Virtual Business Postcards - This unique service offers free digital business-related postcards. Just select your design (and, if you'd like, an accompanying MIDI file); view the preview and send it. Your recipient will receive E-mail advising her or him where to pick up the card.
- Flying Saucers Virtual Greetings - If you're tired of the "same old, same old" virtual postcards, give this site a whirl. There's "The Virtual Magic Eight Ball", "The Virtual Alien Abduction", "The Virtual Spanking" and more offbeat topics here, submitted for your approval.
- S. Marquez Amazing Art Cards - Sebastian Marquez serves up some colorful, quality original paintings that you may send as digital postcards from this 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.
- "2 mom luv me" digital cards - This eye-catching site offers over 50 original free digital greeting cards, many of which are animated. Categories include: "I love you, " "Thanks," "Get well," "Congratulations," "Birthday," "Miss you," and more, as well as offbeat topics like "Kranky Cards" and "Kooky Cards."
- 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. G'day, mate.
- 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.
- 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. Cool!
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Virtual Hugs & Kisses - Send a hug or kiss to your sweetheart over the Web.
- 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 Shakespeare, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, endangered species, wolves, Chinese New Yera, Native Americans, Interactive Art, 3D and stereograms
Links last verified Dec., 1998. If you find a dead link or would like to submit a new link,
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