Composing Your eCard

While composing your eCard message, you can choose fonts, colors and signature options. You can also make any eCard into an online invitation or online survey so your eCard recipients can easily respond.

Click on the 'info' button next to each section on the compose screen to get more details on your options.

Card Style
Select your eCard's font face, color and size as well as your card background and frame color. Click 'Use Favorites' to display a default style that you have created when you set your preferences in My Account > Favorite Styles.

Compose eCard Message

• Greeting - Select a greeting from our drop down menu and/or type your own text. If you select (None) for the greeting area and don't enter any text, nothing will show above your eCard.
  
  Check the 'autofill names' checkbox to autofill your recipient's first name in the greeting line. This will only work for people in your address book who have a first name. Use the text box after 'or' to enter the greeting that recipients will see if they are not in your address book.
  
  In the following example, 'Dear' was selected from the drop down menu, the autofill names checkbox was checked and the text 'Valued Customer' was entered in the text box:

  [Dear Aaron,]
  [Dear Allen,]
  [Dear Valued Customer,]
  [Dear Bill,]
  [etc...]

  Note: If nothing is entered in the 'or' text box, no greeting will appear for ecard recipients not in your address book.



• Message - Type your message in the large text box. Your message will appear underneath the eCard design. Use the Word®-style text editing and formatting features, the color picker with millions of colors, and spell checker. (Click here to view complete list of tools)

Insert Hyperlinks into your card. (Click here to view how)

Our Message Helper allows you to create, retrieve, and search for commonly used messages, which you can easily insert into your card. The messages can contain formatting like color, size, lists, and hyperlinked text. (Click here to view the Message Helper) The Message Helper is divided into the following features:

• My Messages - Allows you to compose and easily insert your own frequently used card text
• Message Finder - search our database of suggested sayings and messages for many occasions
• Company Messages (for CorpNote Company Members) - Allows Company Administrators to create message templates that will be available only to their Company Members
  



• Closing - The closing appears after your message. Select a closing from our drop down menu and/or type additional text in the text box. You can also select none in the drop down menu then type your own in the text box. If you select nothing for the closing, nothing will show.

You may preview your changes at any time by clicking on the "Save Changes / Preview" button above the picture of your eCard.

• Signature - Select the box next to the signature items you want to be included at the bottom of your eCard. You can also make the signature font smaller by selecting the "Make Small" checkbox. (see example)
  View our Custom Signature tutorial for more information on setting up your custom signature and/or uploading a signature photo/logo.



• Make an eCard into an online invitation - To send an eCard as an invitation, you must have already created your event in the Invitation Manager or you can create one from this screen. Once this has been completed, you can then select the desired event from the drop down menu. If you click the 'Add Event Text to Message' button, then your changes will be saved and the text that you entered for the event will be included in the eCard message text.



• Insert an Online Survey - To send an eCard as a survey, you must have already created your survey in the Survey Manager or you can create one from this screen. Once this has been completed, you can then select the desired survey from the drop down menu.

If you need additional help, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions or complete our Priority Email Support Form.