Greetings Workshop

If you suffer from a strange urge to produce personalised cards, banners, certificates and calendars in the home, this is the one for you. Greetings Workshop is fun to use, and has one of the most intuitive interfaces I’ve ever seen. If you expect Blue Peter (popular UK children’s TV programme: see http://www.bbc.co.uk/blue_peter/) style results, though, think again - the Greetings Workshop cards look very professional. You can get away with a black and white printer to use this software, but it’s enough to encourage you to buy one of the excellent low price colour printers (plenty under £200 now) on the market.

Unless you’re very stingy, it’s unlikely that Greetings Workshop will replace your conventional card buying. Where it comes up trumps is knocking up thank you cards for the children’s birthday presents, or making a card for those occasions when you wouldn’t bother normally, but it really can make a difference to say "sorry" or "get well" or "I miss you". Great stuff, this.

Overall - Genuine family fun making personalised cards. Priced around £45 in the UK. Win95 CD. Distributed by Microsoft, web site: http://www.microsoft.com