From the very beginning, GreetingGrams was built to be shared - not just person to person, but site to site. For years this page offered dozens of downloadable greeting cards that webmasters could unzip and host on their own pages, and hundreds of small sites did exactly that. The web has changed, but the invitation stands: if you run a website and want to give your visitors a smile, GreetingGrams is yours to share.
The Simple Way: Link a Card
Every card and fun page on this site is a stable, flat URL that you can link from your own pages - no downloads, no hosting, no maintenance. Some perennial favorites for linking:
- Happy Birthday - the all-purpose celebration card
- The Poopie List - if your audience appreciates the classics
- Lessons for Life - the thoughtful crowd-pleaser
- Merry Christmas - December's workhorse
- The Fun Pages - an index of pranks for your most playful readers
A plain HTML link is all it takes. Deep-link straight to any card - that is what the flat URLs are for, and they have not changed in over two decades.
The Download Era: A Fond Farewell
Long-time webmasters may remember the zip files - forty-five of them, each containing a Flash greeting card and instructions for embedding it on your own site. It was a wonderful system for its time, and that time has passed: Adobe retired Flash entirely at the end of 2020, and no modern browser will play an .swf file. The classic cards have been re-imagined right here with modern, plugin-free artwork and animation, so the best way to “embed” a card today is simply to link it. Your visitors get the greeting; we handle the upkeep.
Building Greetings of Your Own?
If the spirit of the old download page lives in you and you would rather build than borrow, today's open web standards can do everything Flash did and more. CSS animations and transitions handle the sparkle and motion; the documentation at MDN Web Docs is the definitive guide. For making your pages work for every visitor - including those using screen readers - the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative sets the standards worth building to. A hand-built greeting page is still one of the nicest small projects on the internet.
Link Exchanges and Partnerships
GreetingGrams grew up in the era of reciprocal links and webrings, trading footer links with fellow greeting and humor sites. If you run a family-friendly humor, greetings or fun site and want to suggest a link exchange, see the contact page - we read every suggestion. Meanwhile, our links page keeps a short, curated list of resources we genuinely recommend.