Patent ID: 7983924

Claim:
A method of using a web server, the method including: providing a web server system which is programmed to allow each of a plurality of parties to independently design and create electronic greeting cards to offer in a collection via a web site of the respective party; storing, via the web server system, independently created collections of the independently designed and created electronic greeting cards of each of the parties; allowing, via the web server system, electronic communication from each of the web sites to the respective stored collection of greeting cards to permit display of the greeting cards in the respective stored collection; allowing access, by a sender visiting one of the web sites, to one of the collections so as to appear as if the one of the collections is offered by the one of the web sites; allowing, via the web server system, the sender to select and further customize one of the electronic greeting cards in the one of the collections so as to form an electronic greeting card to be sent; and allowing, via the web server system, the sender to electronically send the electronic greeting card to a recipient, so as to appear to the recipient that the electronic greeting card comes from the sender and from the one of the web sites.