The Best Quality E-cards for the Chinese New Year 2009

2009 is the Year of the Ox, and the Chinese New Year is a great time for sending e-cards. Here are some of the best sites for obtaining FREE e-cards.

123 Greetings

123Greetings.com has a great selection of e-cards. They have 26 different free e-cards for the Chinese New Year, with graphics ranging from the Ox, fireworks, Good Fortune, Good Happiness themes. To send a card to someone, click on any card to preview. All animation and music will play so be sure to have your speakers turned on. You can write a letter in a Word-style format (complete with font styles, bold/italics, bullets and colors) with unlimited text space. The number of recipients goes up to 100, and you can store names for later use in your address book. After writing the letter, choices before sending it include when it is to be sent (calender supplied) and notifications for you after sending it.

Care 2 Make A Difference

This website you can personalize the Chinese New Year Card's greeting and preview it before sending it out. Personalization includes 'stamp' for the card, personal message, a card greeting, backgrounds, music, and delivery options. You can hand enter in the names and emails of the recipients or use you address book from Yahoo, AOL or Gmail. Personal messages can be customized by using the advanced editor. And by using this site, Care2 will make a donation for every card sent to an environmental nonprofit to save a square foot of rain forest. They will also connect the givers/recipients to over 300 nonprofits and members wanting to help the environment, and Care2 donates 5% of their website revenues to nonprofit organizations supporting environmental causes. Their tag line is 'spread laughter and love while saving the world,' so you can send a card and help out at the same time.

EGreetings

Egreetings.com has a few selections for the Chinese New Year, and all free. Choices for the sender include your name and email address and where it is to be sent to. You can write your own custom message for the ecard, or choose one of theirs if you can't think of a message, and any message text can be changed for color, style and case. The neat feature this site has is you can attach a photo to go along with it.

HiGreetings

This site has several to choose from, and can be sent to up to 25 different people for each card. You can enter a custom message and have the choice of when the card will be sent to the recipient. With the preview option, you can read the message before it is sent out.

Happy Day Cards

This website has several choices of e-cards, included animated ones. To send one out, enter you name, email address and click whether or not you want a copy or a notification when it is viewed. You can enter in up to 10 emails for 10 different friends and family all at once, with a message to be sent to all of them.