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an old sentence that comes back to me reading this is "never let anything leave your office without your brand on it" from stationary to vehicles and even staff in uniform's around the grounds is a must,

In reference to email signatures and best practice reagrding this, i have seen many a signature with logo's and banners etc plastered all across the bottom(s) of them and links taking you here there and every where.

Ensure you make your signature suitable for both HTML email and plain text so use word to create your HTML version but check this / paste this into notepad as well to see how this will appear to people who only receive emails in plain text.

Alot of the big corporate co's only use plain text due to the volumes of email's passing through their servers every day.

I currently have a very simplistic yet to the point signture with just a mild hint of colour but no images, banners or animated graphics etc just the details my recipient is going to need to contact me after reading my communication to them.

Something along the lines of

Best Regards

James Brown
Managing Director
TFP Services Ltd

T: 0800 000 000
F: 0800 000 000
E: your.name@yourdomain.com
W: http://www.yourdomain.com
A: Unit 2, Newgate Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 0AP
____________________________________________
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MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/your.username
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/your.username
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yourusername
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Steve i shall be pinching that and adding it, good show!

•off to doctor my emails now•

Kip FX Design wrote:Steve i shall be pinching that and adding it, good show!

•off to doctor my emails now•

Glad i can be of use Chris, as you have recently.

If required i can create a video tutorial for creating custom signatures using Outlook 2003 if desired by the forum members? This would be a fresh topic/thread though i think.

It is also basicly exactly the same with Outlook 2007 as i used to use this at a prevoius job but do not have myself so I can not provide a tutorial using this but the actions to change with 2007 is the same as 2003 version.

You name the topic and its done buddy! Just let me know by the normal method :)

And considering what i do for a living you would have thought I would be able to do this easy enough, have managed to turn it into a load of goobleydegook coding!

Kip FX Design wrote:You name the topic and its done buddy! Just let me know by the normal method :)

And considering what i do for a living you would have thought I would be able to do this easy enough, have managed to turn it into a load of goobleydegook coding!

What email system are you using?

Web based providor? (Yahoo, google mail, etc)

Outlook? (stand alone plugin platform)

Other?

Using thunderbird 2 on a Mac, sorted now bud, was to much fancy html script in it!

I will still attempt a video tutorial tomorrow but for all you who are itching to have a play this evening, i have created a quick guide PDF which you can all view / download here.

Outlook 2003 Sigantures

Have fun.

Looking forward to the tutorial Steve, if you brand it up I will put it on my blog with your permission, so add your site details, or can just do a link.

Email Stationery...

I've looked at the tutorial...that's great to create a linear signature.

Digital Stationery is about fully branded stationery. For email as a letterhead, we can repliace format of a traditional letter. footer, header, sidebars and all sorts of wizzy features.

If you get fed up of trying to DIY, then enquire here.
http://www.digital-stationery.co.uk/email_letterheads.php
Fill-in the enquiry form and you will be called back and led through a full design process.

PS. Native Outlook signature feature causes receiving issues outside Outlook. We custom design, then custom code everything to match the design. A snip for the price. We can then take you on to do "real email marketing".

Hope this helps.

OK, I have seen these first hand, but what about email clients that kick out images, coding etc, I view mine with no images, mostly due to speed and how many I get a day, but how will a custom one fare against this?