This Halloween, the JibJab staff are dressed in…Australian school dresses! Why, you ask? We’re participating in Do It In A Dress, an initiative that aims to provide girls in Sierra Leone with an education. Funds donated to the Do It In A Dress campaign go towards scholarships, improved classrooms and sanitation, and business training.

Some staffers are even giving extra incentives for donations, including custom artwork and riding 20 miles on a bike in full Australian school dress. Together, we raised over $3,000, helping 11 girls in Sierra Leone have the chance to wear their very own school dress and receive an education!

Not only is it a great cause, but we look good, too. Check out our class photo below!

In our latest eCard, Celebrating You, remind that birthday boy/girl that it’s their special day and they deserve to be celebrated! Here are some additional ways that you can shower them with celebration:

Load their house with balloons

Have a bubble party

Make them the star of their own fancy parade float

And don’t forget to send them Celebrating You, to kick off the celebration!

Pass along our newest eCard, Exploding Cake, to wish someone special a bomb birthday. But could one card really blow up their inbox? Send them a few of our most explosive eCards, so you can bombard your birthday boy or girl with birthday wishes!

The spookiest time of the year is upon us, which means it’s time to grab your buckets of candy, start work on the scariest costume imaginable, and prepare for an epic night of debauchery.

JibJab is celebrating with not one, not two, but three brand new eCards, including a hair-raising rendition of “I Will Survive” in which you can cast five friends! Dance along to the undead’s song as a gruesome gang of frightful creatures — including a vampire, mummy, witch, werewolf, and Frankenstein. Which will you be?

The Halloween fun doesn’t stop there! Fresh from the tomb, our sign spinner is back from the dead. Cast yourself or a friend as a mummy, and use fancy sign spinning skills to point your fellow mummies to the Halloween party.

Or, embrace everyone’s favorite part of Halloween — copious amounts of candy! If you want to indulge your sweet tooth without the calories, “Too Much Candy” is the perfect card for you.

This Halloween season, you don’t need to be a witch to cast a spell! Simply cast your friends in our Halloween eCards for a terrifyingly good time!

Shiver me timbers and batten down the hatches, mateys! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which means it’s time to grab your hearties, swab the poop deck, and set sail for treasure!

No celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day would be complete without sending your landlubbers our best pirate-themed eCards. Turn yourself into a scurvy seadog and flaunt your pirate pride, or send your buccaneer to Davy Jones’ Locker by making ‘em walk the plank!

When it’s your special day, you’re supposed to have blast, right? In Birthday Blast, we learn that the literal interpretation may not always be so fun. Instead of getting a plateful of exploded cake, here are some ways you can have a blast of a birthday.

1) Take a class and let your mind explode with knowledge

2) Set off fireworks

3) Turn it up to 11, and blast some hot beats

Or, save your ear drums/mind and take the safer route. Send the birthday boy or girl a virtual cake explosion with Birthday Blast, and remind them to make their birthday a blast!

Let’s be honest. The Internet would be far less enjoyable without cats. But what if you could bring the fuzzy creatures out of the screen and into your lap? You can get a little closer to realizing this dream with our latest Starring You eCard, Purrfect Birthday! We spoke to the creator of this purrfect card, Megan, about the Internet and cats.

1) Where did the idea for this card come from?
I like the internet – the internet has a lot of cats – WHAT IF WE COULD DOWNLOAD THE CATS!? And hey presto!

2) What would be your perfect birthday?
A surprise visit from all my friends back home in Australia! Plus a surprise giant vegan birthday cake made into the shape of a giant vegan whale! My birthday is coming up, so fingers crossed.

3) What would you do with a bunch of digital cats?
I would email them to my friends who needed cheering up.

4) In today’s day of extreme hoarders, do you think we need to worry about people hoarding digital cats?
It really does seem to be the way we are headed. Could be a great new reality show?

That’s a reality show I could get behind! Remember to make birthdays purrfect by sending Purrfect Birthday!

In our newest eCard, Center of Attention, we learn that you deserve to be the center of attention if it’s your special day, without having to resort to demeaning methods. If someone does happen to steal your spotlight, never fear! We’ve provided a few other ways to become the center of attention.

1) Start a cool science experiment

2) Start screaming

3) Start your own dance party

4) If those fail, take a page from the cat’s handbook.

See? No need to whore yourself out to get the attention you deserve. Tell your birthday girl that she’s the Center of Attention!

The only thing better than creating a JibJab eCard is sending it, knowing that the recipient will soon be in fits of laughter and wearing a huge smile. Join us as we witness that magical moment when these people realize they’re the star of the show.

We dare you — try NOT to smile at these! ;)

JibJab reactions don’t just come from adults — children love seeing themselves as the star! Next up is this 3 year-old cutie, laughing along to Sled Race, featuring her, her mother, and her father.

In our newest eCard, Bicycle Birthday, encourage your birthday boy or girl to keep rollin’, no matter how they do it. We’d like to wish a happy birthday to these celebrities who have kept it rollin’ throughout the years.

Yvette Nicole Brown, 42 today, rolled right outta Cleveland and into television, starring in shows like Drake & Josh and most recently Community.

French President Francois Hollande has kept himself, his country, and the Tour de France rollin’ for many a year. Joyeux anniversaire!

Deimos, one of Mars’ moons, was discovered today in 1877 by Asaph Hall, and has kept rolling (well, orbiting technically) around Mars ever since. I feel like there’s a song about this…

JibJab has been providing smiles for 14 years, and while our mission to make billions of people happy hasn’t changed, the company has grown and evolved over time.

Josh just recently celebrated his 5th anniversary with JibJab and has witnessed this evolution first-hand. In these past 5 years, he’s been a coding machine, touching nearly everything that has been produced. We asked him about his experience and his favorite memories.

1) How have things changed since you joined the staff? What’s stayed the same, if anything?

We definitely have more people working on more products now, compared to when I joined in July of 2008.

I think we’ve managed our growth well. We’ve stayed nimble, and improved our ability to move quickly in areas of interest. We worked as one team when we only had one product, and that was the way to go at the time. We’ve since split off into several smaller teams to accommodate our growth. This lets us continue to move quickly and do all these things that we want to do. At the same time, we still coordinate our efforts between different teams, since we have lots of shared technology and common areas of interest that cut across product lines.

2) What’s been your favorite memory?
It’s probably that time in late 2008 when we were all extremely worried about our servers’ ability to handle holiday traffic. My manager sat me down to describe a project to me. Now, it was a project that should have normally taken a month; I was given a week. It’s one of those crazy things with remote servers talking to each other, making images, spitting out all kinds of error conditions, handling said error conditions, and so on. Anyway, I gave it my best shot, even working on it late into the night to the point where I started having dreams about it.

When it came time to release it, everyone was surprised that it actually worked the first time through.

But as with many things that you write in one-fourth the time, it kept us going for a few years, but I was glad to finally get rid of it when the time came. I guess this is my favorite story because it reflects the lengths we were willing to go to at the time, but also reminds me not to be too attached to my code, especially since we’ll find better ways to do things. It also reassures me that we actually do find the time to clean up and things don’t just get left lying around. “We’ll fix it later” is actually something we end up doing, and I’m incredibly proud of that.

3) What are you looking forward to for the future?

I’m looking forward to shipping more products and seeing some of our investments in technical infrastructure start to pay off. A lot of new people have joined in the time I’ve been here, and we’ve only seen the beginning of what they’re capable of. So I’m really excited about that.

The free laundry service ain’t half bad, either.

And we agree! Interested in working with Josh and the rest of the JibJab team, and get your laundry done for free? Check out our Careers page for our current openings!

Think you’ve heard it all when it comes to yoga? In our newest Starring You eCard, Yoga Birthday, we highlight some of the lesser known yoga poses.

Feathered peacock:
This stress-reducing pose, or stress-inducing depending on your flexibility, is designed to strengthen your shoulders and improve your balance. Practice this pose enough, and you’ll be ready to spread your beautiful feathers to find that perfect mate.

Old faithful:
Take your yoga up a notch, and twist those arms into a Twizzler. As you unwind, the sweat (and pounds) are certain to erupt off your body, as sure as Old Faithful is predictable!

The number five:
Anyone can make the number “1” — it takes real mind-over-matter to flex into the number 5. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, center your chakras, and balance on your kneecaps to capture this pose.

Doing just a few of these simple (and not doctor recommended) poses twice a day can lead to a more flexible you!

Or, there’s always the easier route. Put the birthday boy or girl in our new Starring You Yoga Birthday eCard. After they see the workout they’ve done, an extra slice of cake will be justified!

International Friendship Day is traditionally celebrated on July 30th in some places, and the first Sunday of August in others. As for us, we celebrate friendship every day! There have been many famous friends that have hit the big and small screens, and we know they would celebrate this special day the same way: sending Starring You Videos!

Lucy & EthelI Love Lucy besties always wanted to catch their big showbiz break. Ethel would certainly make Lucy feel like a star in the Chiquita Starring You video!

Will & Carlton
Will, jealous of Carlton’s sweet dance moves, would totally cast himself in Gangnam Style, showing Cartlton he’s not the only one who can become an Internet dance sensation!

Friends cast
I think we’d be doing a disservice if we didn’t highlight the most famous friends of all — the cast of Friends! Joey would put the group in Walking on Sunshine. Where’s Joey, you ask? Taking the photo, of course!