Generate a Gmail signature graphic

Posted Feb 24th 2005 7:51AM by Marc Orchant

This is a cool online toy - generate a very nice graphic with your Gmail address. Save the graphic (a .png file), upload it to your server, and sign away! Guaranteed to spoil a spambot's day! Three styles are available (this is the largest).

Here's mine:
Marc's Gmail sig graphic

As a reader point out in the comments below, Gmail currently doesn't allow graphics in its signatures but I've come up with a few ways to use this until they get that figured out. See the comments for my ideas and suggest any you might have.

Reader Comments

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1. A search of Gmail says it does not support graphics in the signature, so how are you using this graphic in your sig?

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Michael Mahony

2. Michael: Sadly, you can't right now unless you attach it to every mail message. I'm hoping Google will get this fixed in Gmail soon but for now, I plan to use it in my signature in forum posts, my POP mail account at my ISP (as a way to steer correspondents to my Gmail account), and on my different blog sites.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

3. This is great - I've seen a few of these around and wondered how they generated them. Thanks Marc!

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Don Campbell

4. This is so cool and thanks for sharing this with us Marc. I have already received three emails from friends of mine asking where to get this gmail signature image.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tom Leonard

5. Here's the link to a 'cleaner' version that I used. I think it's from the same site -
http://gizmo967.mgs3.org/Gmail/

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Thejo

6. Marc, how come your name is mispelled in your email addy? :)

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by James Kendrick

7. Heh. It's actually a funny story James. My ISP (Comcast) misspelled my name when they set up my account years ago. I kind of liked the way it sounded - it had a N'awlins ring to it so I stuck with it.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

8. Only problem is that it isn't big enough to handle my girlfriends email address.
Minister.o.sillywalks just doesn't fit.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Justin

9. nice.

just added to my blog

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Amit Agarwal

10. Cool beans!

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jared Eng

11. how do you upload signature graphic to a server? i already create my signature but dont know how to put it on my email. Thanks

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ms maria

12. Now you can include it with copy & paste with the new rich-text editing in Gmail.

Easy parcheesee!

Michael

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Michael D.

13. What a great way to harvest email addresses!

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Josh

14. Ms Maria,

I think you need to upload it to your web server in order to use it.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by VictorE

15. I am a little new at this. I want to use this signature or even another picture. I have the pictures and I can upload them to my server. My question is where do I set up the link. Can this be done through GMAIL through the web or does an email client have to be invovled. I have Thunderbird but my experience thus far with GMAIL and an email client is not that great. It won't bring in all the emails and it brings in all the emails that I send. So this is why I am not using a mail client. Please advise on signature and using mail client with GMAIL.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by DuBose

16. Dubose, unfortunately you must use an e-mail client to embed the signature. Gmail does seem to insist on sending all of your sent mail back to you - I haven't figured out how to get around that yet. I have had th email rerieval issue you describe (partial - not all) on my Treo using both SnapperMial and VersaMail but not in Outlook.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

17. A search of Gmail says it does not support graphics in the signature, so how are you using this graphic in your sig?

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Michael Mahony

18. Michael: Sadly, you can't right now unless you attach it to every mail message. I'm hoping Google will get this fixed in Gmail soon but for now, I plan to use it in my signature in forum posts, my POP mail account at my ISP (as a way to steer correspondents to my Gmail account), and on my different blog sites.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

19. This is great - I've seen a few of these around and wondered how they generated them. Thanks Marc!

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Don Campbell

20. This is so cool and thanks for sharing this with us Marc. I have already received three emails from friends of mine asking where to get this gmail signature image.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tom Leonard

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