E-cards are as cordial as handwritten greetings. Digital greetings are a very nice thing in the internet not only at Christmas time or New Years Day. The advantage of these ecards is that they are send to the receiver within seconds and are for free most of the time. Besides these free ecards are much more funny than simple e-mails.

Especially at holidays there is a great rush on the greeting-card-sites, because nowhere else you have the possibility to send a Valentine's-Day-greeting for example at the very last second, that reaches the virtual mailbox of the receiver a few moments later.

Because sending greeting cards is gettig more and more popular, there are meanwhile hundreds of greeting-card-portals that offer most different services. There are portals that are specialised in love- and romance-ecards but also portals that offer cards for many occasions, for example for birthday greetings, invitations or holiday-greetings.

Depending on the hard- and software the user can decide how much multimedia to put into the cards. You have the possibility to send a simple image, cards with music or aniamted Flash-greetings. These Flash-cards mostly contain comiclike, funny animations, sound- and musiceffect. But to enjoy these features, you need a soundcard and loudspeakers, of course.