Free E-Cards
Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites
Dazed by the number of free e-card websites on the internet? We were, until we started sorting out the wheat from the chaff.
The websites listed below are what we consider to be amongst the best; from sites that do video e-cards to ones that provide stunning postcard images. And also sites that are just a little bit unusual and off the wall. So in fact there is something here for all tastes.
HD Greetings 
• www.hdgreetings.com
Headers: Free 3D video e-cards
Outstanding! These e-cards are so good that I could scarcely believe they are free - so I sent one and they are! And you can add photos, music and text.
The reason HDGreeetings is able to offer this service is that it produces paid for customised marketing solutions for companies the free e-cards are a kind of shop front for their merchandising business. Highly recommended.
The recipient receives an email with a web link to click. You can also send and receive your cards in Facebook.
Plans are afoot to make it so that the cards can be saved as a video file - you will then be able to keep them for as long as you like.
All Posters Ecards 
• www.allposters.co.uk
Headers: Free Electronic Postcards
The worlds largest poster and art print store. You can send any one of their 100,000 images (yes, that's right, 100,000) as a free personalised e-card. That's a lot of choice! Just click on the image you like and you will see an option on the right hand side to send as an e-card. Click this and you can add a personal message.
Recipients are sent a web link to view the card which is kept on their servers for 30 days.
All-Yours
• www.all-yours.net
Headers: Free Animated e-cards, Postcards
Great selection of flash movie cards from All Yours, plus wallpapers, screensavers and postcards. Pretty good quality. And you can also customise you email nitification and choose when to have the card sent (you get organise it up to 2 months in advance). Cards are deleted 4 weeks after delivery.
Animal Planet
• http://animal.discovery.com/games/ecards/ecards.html
Headers: Free Electronic Postcards
This is part of the website of the TV channel, Animal Planet. There are not a lot of images here, but what they do have is good. Cards include animal sounds and a brief description of the animal. You can personalise the actual card itself by adding a title, a stamp and an accompanying personal message.
Note: To complete the email address: to enter the @ sign I had to use the " on my keyboard. This is something to do with US/UK keyboard anomolies .....
Art Russia
• http://artrussia.ru
Headers: Free e-cards
Art Russia showcases the work of hundreds of contemporary artists, mostly Russian. Not only do you get to look at some great art (which you can also buy), but each painting can also be sent as an ecard.
Carlsencards
• www.carlsencards.com
Headers: Free Animated E-Cards
We love this website. Not a great number of cards (around 60 ish at the time of writing) but all are very well done and funny. All the cards have been made by Martine Carlsen herself, so you won't see them on any other website. You can even design your own congratulations ecard.
The recipient receives an email which directs them to the website where they can view the card and message.
ecardica.com
• www.ecardica.com
Headers: Free ecards
Lots of free ecards here for most occasions; some of them are flash cards, most are humerous. You can also get free printable calendars, wallpapers, buddy icons and screensavers (note if you download a screensaver you get a MyWay Search toolbar installed as well - can be useful but you can always uninstall it if you want).
eNature
• www.enature.com/ecard
Headers: Free e-cards
For nature lovers out there, here is a selection of nature postcards, including: Birds, Mammals, Nature's Garden, Beautiful Butterflies, Night Sky, Under the Sea, Weird & Wonderful and Winter Animals. Each card, and we like this, is accompanied by a name plus species information for plants and animals. Very nice.
The eNature website is positively stuffed full of information about the plants and animals of the US covering around 6000 individual species and in addition offers screensavers, contests and quizzes. There are also flash cards such as this one, Abert's Towhee, that you can put onto your own website.
Friends of the Earth
• www.foe.co.uk/cards
Headers: Free e-cards
Send ecards instead of paper cards and help save some of the 200,000 trees that are pulped to create all the cards sent over the Christmas period. Of course, you don't have to send FOE cards
Funny Ecards
• www.funny-ecards.com
Headers: Free Animated e-cards
Great (not to mention extensive) selection of humerous ecards most of which are produced by Funny Ecards themselves. There are cards available for most occasions and most have a musical accompianament.
Geek Culture
• www.geekculture.com
Headers: Free e-cards
If you would like to send something a little bit different, try Geek culture, for the geek in your life! You can add music.
Grant's Central Station Post Office
• http://grantmcl.tripod.com/postoffice
Headers: Free E-Cards
Some unusual black and white free e-cards plus the Dancing Baby with a choice of tunes! Excellent.
Greet2K
• www.greet2k.com
Headers: Free E-Cards
Large selection of e-cards for most occasions. Many of the cards are good quality Flash cards. There are even party/wedding invitation e-cards! Write your own personalised message. View cards online.
Greetings Island
• www.greetingsisland.com
Headers: Free Animated e-cards
Excellent selection of e-cards including still pictures, animations and flash movies, to suit most tastes, including childrens cards.
Interesting.com
• www.interesting.com/postcards
Headers: Free Virtual Vintage Postcards, E-Cards & E-Greetings
No animations, just plain, simple and classy vintage e-cards. The cards are organised into occasion and also by theme, so you should have no trouble finding the card you want.
The website, interesting.com, has, in addition to the ecards, many interesting articles on historical subjects. It is also associated with the websites englishhistory.info and historyimgaes.com.
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