Add image in Gmail Signature
GMail allows plain text signatures but there’s no way to embed HTML signatures with images like the ones you see in Yahoo, Hotmail, Outlook email or Thunderbird mail. Gmail text editor has standard text formatting features like font sizes, colors, bullets, hyperlinks, indentation, but you cannot add html tags in the singature option. Gmail lets you attach pictures to outgoing email but it shows up as an attachment on the recipients’ screen. Now if you want to embed your company logo or photograph or signature with the composed mail how do you do it in gmail ?
One of my colleague asked me how to embed signature or image within the composed mail. I did all kind of hit and trial and finally did it. It is very easy and very useful as well, just follow the guidelines below.
To embed an HTML signature with Images in GMail, Create an HTML signature snippet using notepad or WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver or Frontpage editor.
If you have never done that before, in XP go: start>programs>Accessories>Notepad
Put this code into the editor:
<html>
<body>
<img src=”http://www.yourdomain.com/yourimage.jpg” >
</body>
</html>
Then save the file to your desktop as “signature_file.html”
Upload your image in any free upload site and copy the URL of your image. Make sure it isn’t too big and host it at photobucket or imageshack or flickr etc, or put it on your own domain somewhere. You can use all kind of HTML tags but all linked Image files, audio files and video clips must be uploaded on the web and not on your desktop. Once you are satisfied with the layout, select the entire portion of the webpage that you want to appear in the GMail signature and drag it to the GMail compose window.
Once you have this file, whenever you want to embed this signature pic to a new email, just open the file, and use your mouse to select and drag the picture over to your new gmail window.
Another way is to open the file then ctrl-A (or edit>select all), then ctrl-C (or edit>copy) and then go to your gmail window and ctrl-V (or edit>paste)
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