Amazon.co.uk Review
The e-promo
Multimedia Business Card Kit provides everything you need to design, burn and label your own CD-based electronic business cards. Ideal for e-executives and IT entrepreneurs.
Business cards are essential for providing contact information and as an advertisement, but the simple cardboard card is limited in what it can hold. Enter the e-business card, a small, rectangular CD-R which can hold up to 35MB of multimedia material. Designed for today's IT business person, they offer a "more spectacular business card experience".
This kit contains everything you need to prepare and label e-business cards. The software offers 11 designer backdrops for your mini-presentation, complete with animations, buttons and all the other furniture you'd expect on a lively Web site.
You haven't got much freedom in how this all works, as apart from a choice of three different layouts, the format is fixed. You add your own content, of course, and can incorporate your images as well as text, but the overall size of a picture is limited to 400 pixels square.
Once you've created your screens and tied them all together into a miniature presentation, you can burn your card. The e-promocard, although rectangular, fits a standard CD-R drive and only the centre section is used when burning the normal spiral groove. Once burnt, you can set about labelling your cards. The kit includes labelling software, a sheet of labels and label applicator, so you can do the whole job.
The only drawbacks with the e-promocard system are that the e-business cards are quite bulky--you'd have a job getting more than three or four in your wallet--and that the blanks will cost you around 1.2 (80p) each. --Simon Williams
Manufacturer's Description
Everything you need to create stunning animated CD business cards.
e-promo card Business Kit is a 'Wizard' based application specifically designed to enable you to create your own multimedia content for business card-sized CD-Rs (eCards). Ideal for any CD recordables
Step-by-step design wizard for selecting the design style and music you want to use. Choose from professional background graphic designs supplied. All with built in animation and buttons with sound effects. Choose from a selection of striking audio tracks. You can also add your own music as a WAV file if you prefer. Move from screen to screen adding you text and pictures