Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and like with all holidays these days many people will choose to send an e-card.
The tough part for the sender then becomes selecting an e-card that isn’t annoying. Having looked for and received many e-cards over the years, I can tell you that a lot of them are fairly annoying.
If you’re searching for one that isn’t, where do you look?
Download Squad has done their homework and put together a list sites you may not have heard of but will want to check out:
Rattlebox – Rattlebox is really very good. They have great designs, the interface is nicely designed and the themes themselves are actually decent. You can can change all or some of the text to customize the card, and embed video cards on social networking sites, blogs, etc.
Hipster cards – another witty, well designed e-card site that you would actually want to use.
Someecards – their tag line is “when you care enough to hit send.” These cards are pen and ink and have funny one liners.
MushyGushy – card site where you can upload you head shot into different animated themes (think JibJab) customize, and send.
Smilebox – site where you choose from various multimedia designs and personalize with photos, video, music, words, and style and share via email, blog, or print.
delivr – send a personalized postcard from photos from your Flickr account or select from the 3 million or so Dlivr offers using the Flickr API to pull back the most interesting photos with an appropriate creative commons license.
meish.org – for the anti-valentine crowd. If you hate satin bears and VD makes you want to hurl, these non-sentimental e-cards will fit the bill for you. Oh and are they funny.
[Via Download Squad]
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