I have written about signatures for both email and forums several times over the years, but today I would like to leave this post a little open ended and get some reader comments. My thoughts on signatures (for business communication) are they should essentially be a shortcut for people to get in touch with you. Only relevant contact information about yourself...

The last time I did a video on this subject, I thought it would work for everybody who used the Windows Live Mail client, however a few said that even with the instructions they still encountered the infamous “red X” box where the signature image should go. Well, I was having none o’ that. I was bound and determined to find a way to get a...

Something that should be simple but unfortunately is quite difficult is getting an image to appear in an email signature when using the Windows Live Mail email client. After combing through the client and researching how to do this, I finally found a way that works. This supersedes my last document on this subject. See video below for...

Note that this is for the web-based version of Hotmail. If you are using Hotmail with the Windows Live mail client, see this instead. Hotmail does allow for the use of limited HTML in email signatures, and this does include the use of images as long as they are hosted in a public place. All that’s required for you to do this is the following:Use a free...

This document is old. See this for a better way, with video! In Windows Live Mail (as in the e-mail client and not the web site) the default method for an e-mail signature is nothing but plain text, like this:   You can however create advanced e-mail signatures using the freely available Nvu web page editor. Here’s how it’s done. 1. Download and...

If you use a signature either in your emails or message board posts, don’t put an image in it. I understand for some people it may be required by corporate policies, but if you have the option leave it out. Adding a graphic in your signature not only wastes bandwidth, but it detracts the reader’s eye from what you want them to see… your...

You may remember me stating in the past that I have an aversion to e-mail signatures. Well, I found something that is the sure-fire cure to those overly long e-mail sigs. And that’s Krunchd (pronounced as it looks, "crunched"). I created a Krunchd page http://krunchd.com/menga. I included the all the social networks I participate in, my web site...

One of the very few e-mail signatures that I don’t consider a complete waste of space is ASCII art. This is because getting a signature where letters form a picture or cartoon-like figure is not easy and difficult to get right. If old-school ASCII is your thing, there is a Java application (runs on any OS that supports Java such as Windows/OS X/Linux)...

I send and receive quite a few e-mails. Years ago I used to have quite a hefty e-mail sig on every one of my e-mails that looked something like this: [First Name Last Name here] E-Mail: [e-mail address here] AIM: [AIM screen name here] Phone: [phone number here] Web Site: [web address here] This original sig was 5 lines long. And to the best of my...