Seven of The Best Free Disney E-Cards Websites

The following sites are all focused exclusively on Disney.  There are Disney fans from around the world who’ve become obsessed with all things Disney, and many of these websites offer more than just free Disney email cards – they also offer things like clipart, forums, park or movie information and more. Most importantly, they let you send some of the coolest e-cards featuring Disney themes to anyone in the world.

#1 – DisneySites

This is one of sites that’s obviously created and run by a Disney fan. At DisneySites , you’ll find clipart, movie information, forums, park information and of course e-cards. On the page for the cards, I counted a total of 103 cards currently available, with my favorite being the 4 within the “characters” category.

These appear to be actual photos taken at the Disney Park itself, but they are high resolution and the cards are well laid out. You can even schedule when the card gets delivered by clicking on “Send Later on…” and entering the date. Just beware that the site does feature camouflaged Google Ads, so if you don’t want to mistakenly get transported to a commercial site, be wary of where you click.

#2 – A Hidden Disney Gem: I-Love-Disney

Easily one of the most obscure e-card sites on the Internet, I-Love-Disney is horribly designed and has a format that’s so busy and overrun with links that it’s nearly impossible to navigate. With that said, if you can find the email cards section, you’ll agree that this site is easily the one free Disney e-cards websites you’ll come across with a huge volume of great Disney graphics.

There are pros and cons to using this site. The animated graphics are cool, but the site isn’t automated. You need to copy the image itself and paste it into an email, so there’s no fancy formatting or form that will send the card for you. On the flip side, there’s a feature to select from dozens of languages across the world, and again, the selection of graphics is impressive.

#3 – The eCards Disney Widget

While I normally wouldn’t include a site like this on a top ten list, only because there’s not a whole lot that sets it apart from the thousands of other e-card sites on the net, except there is one pretty cool marketing tool that the creator of eCards.ac used that’s fairly useful – a Disney E-card Widget that you can place on your website to offer your visitors access to these free cards.

The widget is hosted and offered at WidgetBox . Keep in mind that the designs are decidedly “feminine,” so if you’re looking for manly Disney e-cards (if there’s such a thing), you may want to skip this site. However, if you’re into soft and flowery graphics, you’ll have a field day with these free Disney e-cards.

#4 – Lilo & Stitch E-Cards

With just about every form of media, few people can pull it off as well as Disney. This makes sense given the sheer resources available to the media design teams. However, there’s something above-and-beyond when it comes to Disney’s own offerings, and Disney websites are no exception. The Lilo & Stitch section of the Disney Channel’s website offers kids (and maybe the kid-at-heart) some pretty cool “digital post cards” that they can send to a friend.

The offerings are a bit slim. I count about five to seven, but the designs are very cool and a few of them are animated as well.

#5 – Mission Space Digital Postcards

If this top 10 list was in order of coolness, I would place the website for Mission Space at the very top.  That may only be because I’m a bit biased as I love all things related to space, but the graphics and sound effects on this website are excellent.

The link for the digital postcards you can send to friends is found at the lower left hand corner of the page, if you can get past all of the other awesome stuff download – like screensavers, wallpapers and even posters.

#6 – Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Mail

The site for the movie Pirates of the Caribbean easily competes with the Mission Space site for first place. On this site you can actually send free voice e-mail messages using a pirate voice. When you first enter the site, you can choose from one of four languages – English, Dutch, Italian or Spanish. 

This is honestly one of the coolest e-card sites I’ve found on the net, and for the geeks out there, you’ve got a choice between text-to-speech technology, using a phone, or using pre-recorded selections. Keep in mind that this site is very heavy on the Flash side, so make sure you’re fully updated or it won’t work.

#7 – Home on The Range Digital Postcards

Finally, for fans of the Disney movie Home on the Range, there’s the movie website on Disney.com where, if you click on “games & downloads,” you can select from and send your friends a free digital postcard featuring one of the movie’s goofy characters.

Oh, and when you’re visiting most of these official Disney sites, really crank up the volume if you want to fully enjoy the experience.

Do you know of any other fun or interesting Disney themed e-card websites out there? Share your own favorite sites in the comments section below.

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It is designed for webmasters who would like to have a greeting card site of their own without having to write the programs to create one. After you register, they will send you one line of HTML code to insert on your website and you’re all set to go.

Having an ecard site can give your website more traffic that will help you generate extra income. You will have total control over it all and in fact, the average user will see it as a complete ecard program managed by you.  You can personalize the site by using your own images, midifiles, quotations and background.

You can see detailed statistics of your page usage including your daily card creation, daily visitors to your ecard site, your rank in the 123 Greetings system and lots more. They will also email you the log files.

Here are the 4 easy steps to setup your own E-greeting card website:

1. Create an account by visiting the 123 Greetings Associates website.
2. Insert the HTML tag into your website.
3. Customize your e-mail text.
4. Customize your card page.

With your free 123 Greetings site you can:

• Offer your visitors more than 20,000 online greeting cards
• Customize your greeting cards site with your own logo, background colors and text
• Add your own images, midi files and quotations
• Earn revenue through your e-card site
• View your detailed statistics online to track your site’s performance

Here is an example of a landing page you might create. This page would be linked to your 123 Greetings card site. You can create any type of page on your existing site you like to match your existing design and then just link to your 123 Greeting card main page.

A visitor would pick greeting cards from many categories. Here is an example of some of the cards in the Birthday category.

Greeting cards can either be flash or static. Here is an example of a Flash greeting card. It has a button so the recipient can turn the music on and off. This is a non-working sample.

The visitor to your 123 Greetings website would fill out this form to send the card. This is a non-working sample form.

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Do you run an e-card site like this? If so, what are your experiences with it?

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For the second year in a row YouTube is offering a greetings channel for sending personalized video cards. If you weren’t among the millions who tried it last year, here’s another chance. With 2008 about to take its curtain call, YouTube is back with its ‘Holiday Video Cards’. The only difference seems to be that you have more themes and videos to choose from.

• To turn a video into a season ending greeting, sign-up at YouTube.
• Pick out the video of choice from the ones featured courtesy the YouTube community.
• Pick a theme. Themes are like e-card backgrounds. There seem to be only seven themes now.
• Compose your personal message (upto 230 characters only) and add the addresses of the recipients (maximum 25 at one time). Now, click ‘Send’ to spread the cheer.
• If you want to send one of your own, just record one with your webcam. The AudioSwap feature is enabled for your personally created videos. It lets you add audio/musical tracks from the YouTube AudioSwap catalog. The catalog has now included many holiday themed tracks.
• Though the featured videos seem to be more geared for the holiday season, you can send any video on YouTube as a video greeting. Every video has been given a ‘send as a greeting card’ link.

In conclusion, it’s a nice way to send video greetings within YouTube itself. I only wish YouTube had included a “date to send” option to allow us to time our wishes better. Oh yes, choose a nice user name to log-in because it’s what goes into the card.

Did you try YouTube’s holiday greetings last year or this year? What do you think about this seasonal feature?

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