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Funny E-Cards

E-cards became a feature provided by webmasters around the year 1996. During this period websites dedicated to different types of e-cards started to emerge. E-cards were also added on to the services of large web portals like MSN and AOL. Funny e-cards are very popular among the people. These are postcards or greeting cards with cartoon pictures or images sent by electronic mail.

Blue Mountain Arts operating bluemountain.com is one of the most noteworthy web sites primarily focused on e-cards. Rubberchicken.com and superlaugh.com are other websites where one can view funny e-cards. You may find them for just about any occasion birthday, anniversary, Valentine's Day or engagement. There are even funny e-cards with 'Happy No-Occasion!' greetings on them.

Funny e-cards may be of different types. Post cards with a static image, animated consisting of a moving image, flash Animated using Macromedia's flash software, Java Script cards and those with 'speech'. Flash animated e-cards like the ones found in Bluemountain.com allow the sender to direct the animated image to say whatever they want. They may also be highly interactive requesting the viewer to perform an action like pressing a button or choosing a picture to animate and appear like an animated cartoon.

You can select the card style with respect to the image and the pre-written message or you can add your own humorous message. Following this you have to specify your e-mail address as well as that of the recipient. Once the card is sent, the recipient receives an invitation in the form of a link to the e-card provider's webpage. On accessing the link the recipient can view the card.

Since many e-card companies know the e-mail addresses of the recipient and the sender, whether the recipient views the card or not spammers often find active e-mail addresses and misuse them sometimes. Nevertheless with the growing number of people accessing e-cards, funny or not, e-card companies are laughing all the way to the bank.