Top 10 best free ecards sites

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Where to get the best free ecards online

It is not easy to find a good ecard, as it is often considered a generic type of gift. Impersonal, not interesting. A distanced way to express your feelings or congratulate that friend or relative on their birthday. Not to mention the fact that a corny free ecard doesn't exactly make the best impression on your colleagues or even your boss.

Thousands of sites offer this service and looking for the right one can be dizzying. Lots of popups, offers, spam and trojans are the order of the day. Desperately, you probably end up picking any site at random, somewhat pretty flash animation cards, write the email addresses at the speed of light and hit send before you run out of oxygen.

Before you repeat the experience again, this lens will compile the best sites and the best designs for ecards so that you won't get lost.

The Top 10 Sites for Ecards

The best sites for free ecards

  • 1Pingg.com: still generic, yet colorful and artsy images make this site the ideal for simple, yet elegant e-cards. It gives you the option to send them by mailbox too. The web interface makes it easy to personalize your card and the site is completely clean of popups and other annoying ads.

    pingg postcard
  • 2Spiritisup.com: the #1 site ranked by visitors. As a directory-type web page, it offers Java, Flash and poetry greetings among 30 categories. Although is full of popups, specially one of them that asks you to vote, I think the site's 5500+ variety in designs just makes up for it, and the select-and-send inmediately makes it worth.

    girl butterfly
  • 3123FunnyJunk.com: Great site for funny ecards of all types. It doesn't have popups and its easy, pick one category then send design makes it one of the best. You can send videos, jokes, funny pics, and even flash games from a list.

    funny ecards
  • 4animechains.com: are you a fan of manga/anime? Do you know someone that is? Surprise them with this gesture. This free-of-popups web site lets you pick from a variety of 40 animes or 20 holiday categories! The captions for each postcard are great and unique.

    anime ecards
  • 5ecardica.com: what's the advantage of this site? It has a monthly calendar for every specific occasion or holiday every day, be it the World Peace Day on September 21st or Quit Smoking Day on the 30th. That means this is the biggest category site you will ever find. You will literally find any theme, flash games, virtual hugs, wishes and thoughts ecards, and 'anytime' cards, just because you felt like sending them to all of your friends and co-workers.

    abstract
  • 6Someecards.com: I like the site for the sketch designs, in a sort of comic stripes way. The irony in the captions and categories is everywhere. And you can always digg them. Oh, and no popups.

    ecard someecards
  • 7123greetings.com: also one of the biggest and known ecard sites out there, their interface can overwhelm you with the variety of designs they have. You can take your time looking for THAT oh-so-cute siamese kitten ecard or reading the interesting facts on international festivities, like the origin of Ramadan, or what Onam means, for example.

    siamese ecard

    And you have the option of Tweeting them, of course!
  • 8actioncat.com: and speaking of cats, this is a site for us cat persons. I dig the Maneki Neko ones, that come with the Midi sound you choose and a message of good luck!

    cat ecards
  • 9hallmark.com: a well-known site, they have tv and movie themes ecards with a simple, great flash presentation. If you know any Twilight fans, this is the place to go!

    twilight

    The only perk? They're not exactly free but with an online account you get to pay only $0.99.
  • 10Bestweddingcards.com: they live up to their title, as a partner site of 123greetings.com. You'll find anything related to that special occasion, but also in friendship and love themes in general, with more than 20+ categories.

    wedding ecards

Punchbowl

Punchbowl is a ecard site with a great clean layout.

Their premise is simple: 'Send free eCards with the look and feel of paper greeting cards!'

It is quite a change of pace in that this is not your cliche flash card with tacky graphics. I highly recommend this site if you want to send an ecard to your coworkers and your boss.

There are plenty of sober yet colorful designs that add a touch of formality to something as informal as a link in an email.

Their main categories are Holidays, Business Christmas, Everyday occasions, Birthday, Announcements, Ocassions, Love & Friendship and Care & Concern.

Here's the link: :)

http://www.punchbowl.com/ecards

Greeting-cards.com

This is another new and great site which features many categories, including astrology and Halloween E-cards.

It even comes with a calendar for a particular celebration each day of the year so you can be aware of the customs and culture worldwide.

It has a section at the left in which you insert the card number to pick it up and view it quickly in your browser.

Greeting-cards.com

Picaboo.com

Picaboo Promotional Banner

Picaboo is a premier provider of photo books and cards. With Picaboo, anyone with digital photos can create beautiful photo books and cards in seconds. Unlike photofinishing websites, Picaboo does not force you to spend hours uploading photos before you create a book or card. Rather, with Picaboo installed, you can make a complete, ready-to-order book or card in seconds. We offer a wide range of photo books, from $9.99 medium soft cover books to over $1,000 large flush mount wedding albums.

With billions of digital photos trapped on computer hard drives around the world, photo books and photo cards are the next-generation of photofinishing. Picaboo delivers the most innovative, easy, and fun way to create, share and buy high quality photo books and cards.

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Is it that hard to make your own ecards?

Do you have the time? Think about it. If you got your Photoshop, Flash or Illustrator skills, then go for it!

-You only need to get truly original and descriptive images and tweak them into your own. You can make them into your own .gif or flash animation if you will.

-Do you draw and have a tablet? Why do not make a sketch design and work the magic with Photoshop or other specialized software of your preference? You can't get more personalized than that, along with famous quotes, specific phrases or poetry that you chose.

-Psst. Memes and LOLcats always make good e-cards

Ecard themes on Flickr

Six ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day the open source way by opensourceway
Easter: Invite your peeps. by mufan96
Meine Zeit steht in deinen Händen. Psalm 31, 15 by crossmedia.files
Christmas card by Joybot
Shake up the holidays! by CTSI-Global
Merry #ChrisMash by Paul Stainthorp
Happy Birthday Mom! by SteveNakatani
auguri! by fannullone
halloween by linkyfly
Happy Onam by robinngeorge
automatically generated by Flickr

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  • desa999 May 9, 2012 @ 4:06 am | delete
    A beautiful lens with some great ideas.
  • KimGiancaterino May 7, 2012 @ 10:23 am | delete
    Thanks for compiling this great list. I still do cards the old-fashioned way, but enjoy looking at ecards.
  • Louise May 2, 2012 @ 5:01 pm | delete
    what about charity ecards? i'd like to feel i was helping out by sending one. Macmillan cancer support and Shelter have some good ones.
  • Mia Feb 29, 2012 @ 10:51 pm | delete
    Thanks for recommending pingg. Finally an ecard place that doesn't have terrible graphic design.
  • Rewards4life Jun 11, 2011 @ 4:01 pm | delete
    Great selection of ecard sites, very useful to find tried and trusted places.
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