Instructions for adding an image/logo signature to Gmail in HTML
If you look around the internet you will see forum after forum of people highly upset that websites are promising the answer to the problem of Gmail lovers the world over. How do you put an HTML signature in Gmail that includes a logo?
More than one way but we have the best
There are more than a few ways to accomplish this. We have found a pretty simple solution that seems to meet the needs of the people in our company so we thought we would share it with you. Several of us at Adworkz spent way too much time banging our head against Google trying to get around their “plain text only” rule for signatures. It doesn’t really make sense to us that Google does that, but who cares, we found a way around it.
The basic steps for adding an HTML signature to Gmail are as follows:
- Click on the “Settings” tab in the upper right of your Gmail account.
- Click on “Labs” which is a tab at the upper right.
- Enable “Inserting images by Kent T.”
- Enable “Canned Responses by Chad P.”
- Format your HTML signature with no images.
- Paste the HTML signature into a blank email.
- Click the image insertion icon to put your signature logo in.
- Select all and save by clicking the drop down under the new “Canned Responses” menu.
- Open a blank email and click the “Canned Response” drop down menu and select “Insert” and the name that you saved your signature under.
Excellent Mate.
Thanks so Much. This will DO for me
Thank you…worked great! Nice presentation.
Thank you very much for the tutorial
Thanks for putting this video together!
Thanks a lot for this video! Very useful and worked a treat for me.
Nice job
THANK YOU!!!!!
thank you very usefull!
WOW – Would never have believed it was so easy! Thanks you sooooo much. This has bugged me for years!!
Hey Dude!
This video saved my day, I had to implement this soluion for my client, I had found many other solutions, but your is the best, the easiest and clean approach. Thanks for share.
Greetings from Brazil!
you guys are great , i really liked that .
THX a bunch!
Great and VERY relevant video!
Thanks for the helpful step-by-step and even more helpful video. Worked great.
It doesn’t really help. It’s a pin to have to choose my signature everytime I send an e-mail. The signature should be automatic!
Thank you so much! You clearly explained how to create your signature step-by-step. So helpful – can’t thank you enough.
Finally! I needed to create two separate signatures and sometimes don’t need any signature. Perfect solution. THANK YOU!
Thanks, great post with clear instructions. Just a point to note – I attempted this using IE7 (on Windows XP) and the image would not save to the signature, the path appeared to be broken. But when I attempted it in Firefox everything worked like a dream.
Cheers!
This has been working for me for a while now, but today for some reason the images stopped being displayed. Anyone else seeing this?
I just set it up on Gmail with Firefox 3.5 and it works like a charm. Yes, it should be built-in, but this is an easy workaround.
The directions were clear and easy to follow. However…after the initial uploading of the image, it disappeared and turned into a red “x”. I noticed the previous poster’s images aren’t displaying properly, either. Is this new and is there a fix?
gmail canned response will not pull image from url but, if I insert image with the same url it puts the image there. Any ideas on how to get canned responses to pull an image from the web?
Great!
We tried using the firefox plugins but this solution is so much better!
Thanks
Thanks so much for the amazing video! Just the exact stuff I was needing! great work.
Great problem solving skills!
Thanks so much for sharing
great tutorial , i am having problems with image links in the signature, when i add the link, it comes up with a blue boarder around it. i was hoping lose all boarders. any suggestions?
http://tinyurl.com/ygr7oq2 – a screenshot of the problem
Cheers.
Ewan.
Awesome tutorial! Thanx allot!
Thanks for these easy to follow steps. I think I will try it -but now I have to remember to press Canned Response first and then type my email content ABOVE it. If you try to type your email first and then click Canned Response it appears at the top of the email. I prefer it at the end. Thanks though, this was helpful
Ewan,
You will want to add border=0 to your images tag for no border.
thnks so much fr the tip.
Really awesome, thanks
Great!
Thanks, its been killing me not to be able to put my logo in emails.
THANK YOU!!!!! This was expertly done and you saved me tons of time and frustration.
AWESOME !!
Thanks! This was a big help.
Wow! Great information!!
I especially like that you have the ability to have different responses and also, I can add it as I please – that’s awesome!
Thanks soo much!!