Electronic Greeting Cards—Send a Friend a Greeting

Our next application enables users to construct electronic greeting cards and send them to friends. You use your browser to create a card, and the recipient uses a browser to view it. This is a more ambitious (and complex) undertaking than any of our previous applications because it has to do a whole bunch of stuff:

  • When you first visit the application, you see a card information form into which you enter the name and email address for the recipient and for yourself, as well as the text of the greeting you want to send.

  • If you want to select a picture to be displayed with the card, the application switches to a page that displays a gallery of images. After you pick one, the application switches ...

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