E-Cards are working!!!

I've done it! I got the e-cards to work! The show can now go on!

Please give me a week or so to convert the rest of the cards and implement them on the main site...

After scouring the web for a solution, once again, the solution came from yours truly. Now I have to be honest, I went to every forum I could think of asking the same question over and over... some people got mad, even called me bonkers for tryyyying to attempt this in the format that I was using. Heck some even called it "too advanced". Should I consider myself advanced because I figured it out? There was at least ONE helpful person, they kinda got me to think "critically", and then it hit me. THIS is how I do it! Done! I'm so glad this is finished.

-Signing off

E-Cards Progress!

Hello again all! I've been hard at work constructing a Canvas (HTML5) based e-card engine! I've gone to the furthest reaches of the web asking for help, heck I even put on my snorkel and went into the deep web. Some pointed in the right direction, others scoffed at the very idea, calling it impossible to accomplish... I'm not joking, these coders and um... those that claimed to be hackers... all said that it probably wouldn't be possible because HTML5 is literally 1/4 functional compared to Flash. Well that didn't stop me. Not even the geeks at Stacks could discourage this Panda!

I must give thanks to those that did offer their support. No one really did provide solid answers, but their examples got the gears turning in my head. Through trial and error, I was able to accomplish 99.9% of the task! It is literally ALMOST DONE!!!

Here's what I've got:

I now have a functional input form in the canvas.

These aren't your average text fields, they came

bundled with Adobe as components. They were

a nightmare to work with. Many suggested I don't

use them because almost no one knows how to use

them and to make my own with JS and place them

with CSS. Well, they were already there, someone

out there knows right? Guess who figured it out... ;D

After filling out the above form, click send and your

card is generated. You get a link to see the pretty card

you just sent your lover. Again, I used the text input

component that comes with Adobe. It worked out really

well!

And here we have the e-mail that is received by your

significant other. It's clean, non-intrusive, no ads, just

a straight forward message. 

(oops, it still says Flash E-card... I'd better fix that...)

So what's left to do? Well... I'm stuck at one part. I have no real way of getting the message to appear in the e-card. Sure you can use it now and your S.O. will see the cartoon, but it's just not the same without the message on the card itself :( So that's where I'm at. If anything, I'll probably go ahead and convert all the cards to HTML5 right now, open up the site, and you guys can go ahead and use them. In the meantime, I'll be working on getting those messages to appear on the cards. At least your S.O. will be able to read the message in the e-mail :)

Panda signing out.