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E-Cards - 123greetings.com

Despite the name, 123greetings has WAY more than 123 e-cards. As a matter of fact, they claim to have more than 25,000 e-cards in their online gallery. But what's the best part? That's right, it's FREE!

This site is literally packed to capacity with e-cards. Their 26 e-card categories are Anniversary, Arts, At Work, Birthday, Cute Cards, Events & Holidays, Everyday Cards, Family, Flowers, Food & Drink, Friendship, Gifts, Inspirational, Invitations, Kids, Love, Music, Pets, Religion, Specials, Sports, Stay In Touch, Teens, Toys, Travel, and Wedding.

The main page is packed with all kinds of cool things. There is a slideshow in the middle of the page that previews 4 popular e-cards. There is a search feature on the left-hand side of the page that enables users to search for a specific card or type of card. Below that are lists of popular e-cards and everyday e-cards that people can send quickly and easily.

123greetings has a neat utility that helps people create custom cards with their own photographs. I think this would be a great solution to Christmas cards that one could send to friends and family to keep them updated. Another application for this would be create baby announcements for friends and family that included a picture of your new bundle of joy.

In addition to the draw of the e-cards (as if that weren't enough!), internet users can subscribe to 123greetings' free newsletter, which will keep them notified of upcoming holidays and happenings, so that you don't forget to send those important e-cards.

They also offer website owners the ablity to integrate e-card sending through their own sites. By adding a small HTML tag to ones site, they will receive the following benefits:

Offer your visitors the option to choose from more than 12,000 online greeting cards covering 1,500 events/festivals.
Add your own images, midi files and quotations.

Customize your greeting cards site with your own logo, background and text color.

Benefit from the added publicity offered by our promotional programs.

Earn revenue through your card site.

View your detailed statistics online to track your site's performance.

Offer a host of valuable features to your users, such as, scheduled delivery of cards, addressing cards to multiple recipients, search option, original music and lots more…

So as you can see, 123greetings has just about everything that a good e-card site should have - tons of e-cards, and lots of fun options.