E-greetings. Bane or
Boon? These are one of the smartest online
services. Go to the site to pick up a card
someone else sent you. A sure-fire way of
getting new visitors to the website. Many though
find them to be irritating forms of
communication. Think long loading minutes, and
images revealing themselves at tortoise-pace.
Perpetually all greeting card site from Pakistan
are either done in pastels or overwhelmingly
garish combinations of dark shades. And nearly
all of them are alike in content as well. Once
you have made use of an online greetings site,
there really lies little scope for thinking the
second time around.
It is so predictable: Choose your occasion;
choose a card in that occasion; and then
personalize and send it. If you are the "
Creative " sort, then perhaps you consider it to
be value addition when you get to choose the
font type, size and color, as well as the
background color on some sites.
Pardon the cynicism, but it should in no way
take away from the efforts made by local
websites producers. Here's a bit about the
concepts and people behind the sites that
grabbed our attention.
EidMubarak
"Search thousands of POSTERS." "EidMubarak
Cards - Hundreds of Cards To Choose From!" Just
a couple of the boasts on the site. Well, one
has to admit that the name's memorable and it
does take the cake for the most condensed
version of card categories available on the Net
at the moment. You will find cards on any event,
festival or occasion such as Eid, Independence
Day, Birthday etc.
Their MyCards option allows you to send you
own pictures as cards. You can add music,
background, and apply special effects to these
images. The instructions given here are easy to
follow and do not cause any problems for tyros.
Etaza.com
 If
there is one word that can describe the US-based
Etaza.com, it's classy. The site is one-stop
gift-cum-card shop that creatively segregates
its offerings into Choorian, Meetha Pal, Classic
Gifts, Flowers and Free Postcards. It's hard to
describe, but the atmosphere on the site reeks
of giving and receiving. Very ethnic in its
offerings, cards aside - the items you can add
to your shopping cart range from bangles,
ghungroos, mithai to fresh fruit and flowers.
Replete with attractive pictures of the items on
their menu, you just might find yourselves
plunking down a few dollars to couple of gift
with your free postcard.
MegaEast.com
Colorful and funky, to say the very least.
The first thing that hits you when you go to
this site is the vibrancy of the site. It
literally pulsates with energy and despite the
amount of text loaded onto its front page, keeps
a look of tidiness about it . The cards seem to
come alive with the vibrancy of the background,
and once you're over with your "greetings"
obligation you can browse through the myriad of
navigation options available on the site. Never
thought I would say it, but this one is a
"Saturday night" option. By the way, don't miss
Zone 61.
UrduCards.com
Cards in Urdu - and even the French claim it
to be the most romantic language in the world.
The cards express themselves beautifully, and
there is little that is left to the imagination
when Urdu is the form of expression. A simple
site which gets kudos for imagination and
initiative. The most poetic greetings site of
all covered in this segment. And don't judge it
by its cover either - it's meant for a lot more
than sending e-greetings to your grandparents.
ShadiCards.com
The Garbo of all the greeting cards sites
covered here. The mood - gray and somber. The
designs - stylish yet understated. The niche -
exclusive. They even describe their cards as "Panche
Card No. XXX ".
The company behind it is a printing and
publishing company in Birmingham, UK who have
been in business for 16 years and have
specialized solely in the production and
distribution of wedding cards to cater to
Indian, Pakistani and European tastes. The
verdict: Definitely worth their weight in pound
sterling.
UrduLife.com
This
site offers flash cards for various
occasions, events and festivals such as
Birthday, Eid Mubarak, Anniversaries,
Friendship, valentines plus more...It's meant
for more than merely sending e-greetings.
PakistanZindabad.com
The cards on this
site can broadly be placed into ethnic,
Islamic and local images category. You can
browse through the myriad of navigation options
available on the website.
Hamarapakistan.com
Hamarapakistan.com, Pakistan Information
Portal as they call it, is relatively a new site
on the web scene. It covers a wide range of
topics such as magazines, Industries in
Pakistan, entertainment, global business, health
and fitness, stock exchange, society and
culture, shopping , fashion and various other
topics. You can also change your mood by
selecting Urdu adab from their navigation panel.
You can also get latest news from one of the
leading newspaper of Pakistan along with
International news updates from BBC.
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