Gmail TIP: Getting HTML and Images into a Gmail Signature

Here's a quick tip. To get an image into a Gmail signature (which otherwise seems impossible to do), you build your HTML signature in an HTML editor (like Dreamweaver) then preview it in the browser.

1. Create your signature in HTML making sure any images are already hosted on the Internet somewhere (e.g. Flickr)
   
2. Upload the HTML page to a web server
3. Preview that page in a browser
4. Copy what you see and paste it into gmail--you'll be surprised to see that it pastes everything in, including images!

Interestingly, once you have an image pasted into gmail, gmail does give you options to resize and so on. So they obviously included the ability to work with images...you just can insert them without this copy and paste business.

It's a pain to copy and paste each time, but when it's part of your routine, it doesn't take that long and adds a lot to the signature line. Why Google doesn't allow this feature in the built-in signature setting I don't know. They should. Other programs have been doing this for years, but I'd gladly copy and paste the signature in exchange for the other great features that gmail has to offer.

Here's an example of my signature that I created because our company, Rapid Intake, just won a significant award in our industry and I want to use the signature line to help spread the good news.

I hope you enjoy this tip.

Here's my signature as an example:

Garin Hess | CEO
Rapid Intake
www.rapidintake.com
Email: garinhess@rapidintake.com


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