eCards Instructions – Graham Sale eCards

Add your logo and business information to personalize your eCard and give it a branded look with clients and customers.
There are two ways to do this: 1) Upload your business card or 2) create a custom design. Both are easy.

For Examples – Click to Preview

1. Upload Your Business Card

• If you have original artwork (jpg) of your business card simply upload it.

• Specs: The eCard format is 625 pixels wide.
For best results, your artwork should be 575px or less to leave air around the design.

• If it’s larger you can change the size in the editor once uploaded. See the instructions below.

• A standard business card will look huge edge-to-edge at 625px wide.
If you have design skills create something thinner that goes all the way across. Experiment.

2. Create a Custom Design

Logo Basics

• Your logo or photo will look best if it’s a smaller squared image with a maximum width of:
250px – Left Aligned
450px – Centered

• If it’s larger you can reduce it in the Editor after uploading it.

• Your image must have some white space around it or else your text will touch it.

Upload Your Image

In the Editor—below your personal message—Click the Picture Graphic.
The Insert/Edit Image editor will appear. Upload your image. Adjust the size if necessary.

Experiment with the editor’s various features and drop-down menus.

Left Aligned Logo

Upload your image: Max width 250px. Resize if necessary.
Click on your logo. Then, Click on Align Left in the Editor Menu.
Next, Click on the area to the right of your image and type your contact information as in the example below.
For single-spacing Click Shift-Enter at the end of the sentence. It will create a line break and push the cursor/text to the next line.
This also works in your personal message. For double-spacing hit Return.
When finished, Click the Preview eCard button to see how your eCard will look when it is sent.
To make changes, Click Return to eCard. Repeat until you’re happy. Then Send.

Examples:

(Your Cartoon eCard appears above this.)

Center Aligned Logo

Upload your image. Max width 450px. Resize if necessary.
Click on your logo. Then, Click on Align Center in the Editor Menu.
Next, Click on the area to the right of your image and type your contact information as in the example below.
For single-spacing Click Shift-Enter at the end of the sentence. It will create a line break and push the cursor/text to the next line.
This also works in your personal message. For double-spacing hit Return.
When finished, Click the Preview eCard button to see how your eCard will look when it is sent.
To make changes, Click Return to eCard. Repeat until you’re happy. Then Send.

Helpful Tips

• Want more room to write in a Text Box?
Drag the triangle at the bottom right corner outward/downward.

• Change Font Size:
Highlight your Text & Click Format.
A drop-down menu appears offering this and other options

• For Single-Spacing & Stacking Text.
Click Shift-Enter at the end of a sentence.
It will create a line break and push the cursor/ text to the next line.
For double-spacing hit Return..

• Centering text next to an image/logo (Align Left) .
The first line of text begins at the top of the image’s border.
Shift-Enter will lower the cursor for you to begin your text.

Send Mass Emails Using Gmail – To Customers/Clients/Friends.

Create an eCard and send it to yourself.
Copy the eCard. Use the cursor to drag & copy (not Ctrl+alt) or you’ll copy the entire page.
Click the three vertical dots at the bottom for “More Options.”

7. Name & SAVE your eCard template: “Xmas Ecard”.
8. You have now saved your eCard/Email. You can create several in advance to use for various occasions and customers.

To Send

Open/Compose a NEW EMAIL. Click the 3 dots and select your template.
Add your customer list (send as Bcc “Blind Carbon Copy” so they don’t see each other’s email addresses).
Send your email.