singing birthday ecards
free birthday e-cards (and others...)
Twelve ecard designs in the Birthday category are listed above. Click here to view all 57 designs in the Birthday ecard category.
hi-res wallpaper
Hi-res desktop wallpapers (1024x768). A load of them have been used in the ecards section of the site (George Bush & Tony Blair and Anti-War).
uk photos + galleries
Like every other Tom, Dick and Harry I like taking photos and putting them on a website. You can view one at a time, a gallery at a time or send them as send any as a photo ecard.
links with a conscience
MINI ECARD FAQ
So, why yet another ecard site?
This is my take on the fat, bloated, over-saturated free ecard market. Most free ecards I've found are grotty, soppy, cheesy pap. So I've made a load of my own free ecards, with which you will be able to send to your aunties, uncles, long lost second cousins twice removed, and remote ancestors. Don't delay, send a free jimpix ecard, at some point.
You don't have many ecard designs - why not?
What you won't find here is a bloated list of thousands of designs, most of which look the same, insipid, dull or pointless. Hopefully you will instead find a tasteful list of original ecards - depending on your taste of course!
What's the point anyway?
Good question. The ecard market is so utterly saturated with sites offering every possible ecard for every conceivable occasion that making yet another site doing the same thing, peddling the same goods, seems a bit silly. Still, if you have ever spent a while on the web looking through ecard sites, you will possibly, sooner or later, come to realise that a large proportion of the "other" e-card sites are grim. For these reasons:
- They are riddled with adverts, which pop up, out, under, between and beneath your progress through the site. True, they are making lots of money for the owners of said e-card sites, but they don't look pretty...
- They are often badly designed HTML behemoths. They're well behind the times in terms of accessibility. I don't mean to say my site is really well designed, but I don't exactly think it is BAD either.
- They often have acre upon acre of screen real estate bulging to the seams with poor taste cheese. There's no other word for it. It is cheese. Be that puppy cheese, romantic cheese, lyrical cheese - you name it, it's been cheesed to the eyeball on one site or another. I operate a strict "no-cheese" policy with my e-card designs.
- Do you need any more reasons?
Jimpix Ecards Background
The ecards you'll find here aren't your run-of-the-mill cheesy kind that you can find on countless other websites. Neither are they the kind of super smart ecards which are mini-masterpieces, or works of comic genius. Instead, the ecards are generally made to be thought-provoking, or failing that, a bit of fun, or failing that, they look nice!
They are mainly based on the work of a range of incredibly smart flash designers, such as:
- Jared Tarbell from Levitated
- Keith Peters from BIT-101
- Geoff Stearns from Deconcept
- Simon Hattinga from Seraph
...and a few others! These flash designers use the powerful scripting language used in Flash, called ActionScript. This enables the designers to create really amazing effects, and due to their rather very kind decision to release their work as Open Source / GNU General Public License (for Levitated), I have been able to adapt their works to create the ecards you will find on this site.
I hope you like what you find - I think some of the designs are pretty incredible. While I can't understand the programming logic that was used to create the flash effects you will see in the ecards, I can certainly appreciate the beauty of the end-results...
Thanks for stopping by!
Photo e-cards
Some wintery photo ecards:
Updates
January 2nd 2009
If you care, there is a lot of interesting information about the current Israel / Gaza crisis on The Electronic Intifada. If you don't care, or if you don't agree with the point of view, I guess I'm wasting my metaphorical breath.
September 9th 2008
Over the last few days I watched John Pilger's documentary, called The War on Democracy. Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States' intervention in foreign countries' domestic politics, and its War on Terrorism. It might make you cry, if you are in a compassionate mood. Very amazing indeed.
If this is all news to you, I suggest you read Killing Hope, by William Blum, which is all about U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II. Sounds dry, but it's an incredible read.
September 2nd 2008
Two new photo galleries from a day out in Llandudno:
People in Llandudno
Various Llandudno Photos
August 21st 2008
Have you been watching a lot of the Olympics? I read a wonderful article by Mark Steel this evening. Here are a few quotes:
One morning, after achieving four straight hours watching the Olympics, I realised it was time to stop when the commentator said, and these were the exact words: "You have to say, that is a very important moment in the history of Algerian judo."
...When a British athlete wins, the most common reaction seems not to be an embittered gutteral "Yes – go on for Britain," but a share in the personal triumph as we learn about the athlete's background, the family that couldn't afford to go, her old schoolmates that cheered her on. If we personalised the foreign athletes, we might feel a similar way about them.
And in that respect sport is indeed like war. Because just as commentators are likely to shriek: "This is a fantastic run from Tidsdale, Tidsdale for Great Britain, what a run, oh Tidsdale, Tidsdale, Tidsdale, it's Tidsdale who gets a bronze, the winner's a Kenyan and then a Swede but bronze for Tidsdale," in war we learn of a dead soldier's grieving family, angry friends, devastated colleagues and sense the misery. But if it's foreigners we get: "Afghans claimed between 30 and 50 civilians, killed somewhere on a hill today. Now here's Alan with the sport."
August 16th 2008
Using the "Ink Incident flash file, I've created 3 new ecards and 1 desktop wallpaper.
The ecards are:
Happy Bleedin' Birthday
My Heart Bleeds For You
F*** Your F***ng War!
This builds on the success of the first splatter ecard which I uploaded on the 26th July 2008.
Apologies if the anti war one offends you, with the swearing!
August 12th 2008
Garfield Minus Garfield -- A new link: Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
August 11th 2008
Two new photo galleries: King's College, Cambridge, and some cows.
Plus, 2 interesting articles about shopping and children.
August 10th 2008
Two new John Pilger articles which made me go "wow!":
THE LIES OF HIROSHIMA ARE THE LIES OF TODAY
OBAMA, THE PRINCE OF BAIT-AND-SWITCH
If you have ten minutes to spare, try reading them. They might look long and imposing, but really, give it a go, you might surprise yourself...
E-card links (mostly)
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