One facility that most websites need is a function that provides some exposure to bring in more visitors. A fun way of doing this, especially around the holiday season, is to create a festive electronic postcard system so that site visitors can send each other greetings (branded according to your site, of course). Your visitors get to have fun creating, customizing, personalizing, and sending their e-cards; and you get lots of extra visitors through word of mouth. Those e-card recipients then go on to reply to the e-card or send their own messages to new people, creating a viral effect. This is great advertising with not a penny spent on banner ads!
In this article, Chris Garrett will demonstrate--using ASP.NET and the System.Drawing namespace--how you can create and customize a graphical greetings card. Then you will go on to send this card to email recipients with an HTML email message. The message will contain a link to allow the recipient to come back to your site and send a reply, or create a new message of their own.
