Gmail - Adding a Graphic to your Signature - Orange County Web Design

If you're a Gmail user, you probably know that Gmail Doesn't support embedded graphics in your signature.

There are two ways around this.

Method 1. Use an email client like Thunderbird by Mozilla or Outlook/express to create an HTML signature. Thunderbird, in particular will let you choose an image as your signature or create an HTML signature that also embeds a graphic with the IMG tag.

CAVEAT: You need a server of some kind somewhere where you can call up that image in the image tag. Any server that will allow you to embed it is fine, even say, twitpic or flicker or a Google blog or site.

Method 2. This method is a one-at-a-time approach when using the Gmail web interface. It also requires a hosted graphic.

step 1. Compose a new email.

step 2. Open a new browser window and go to the graphic you'll use. Drag it from the browser window into your Gmail compose window to the point (like your signature block - above or below it) where you want it placed. It simply appears embedded in the email.

I find the Gmail interface so useful in other ways including its new "labels" feature that it's hard to consistently use a mail client just for the signature, but there's no sign that Gmail plans to add this feature yet.

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