With the development of the Internet, more more people tend to send electronic cards instead of paper ones at New Year's time. Compared with the tradi-tional cards, electronic cards are more interesting lively ,for you can get not only pictures but also sound even animations. Besides,it's faster to send an elec-tronic card. There are many web sites on line where dif-ferent varieties of cards are available. If none of these cards are of any interest to you, you can design cards of unique style using Flash or other software. More impor-tantly, with the popularity of electronic cards, less paper is used for making paper cards, which contributes to the environment protection