Gmail is a great app but there are a few quirky things about it here and there. One of the quirks is that gmail doesn’t easily support adding a graphic image to your email signature line.
Adding a text only signature is easy. Just follow these instructions: Adding a Text Signature to gmail
But everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why I was determined to add a graphic to my signature image. Enter Blank Canvas to the rescue. Blank Canvas has a Firefox extension that makes it super duper easy to add graphics to your gmail signature line.
Here’s how:
- Install the Blank Canvas add on
- Follow the prompt to restart Firefox
- From Gmail, compose an email
- Select the new button,‘Create Signature’ which now appears beside the ‘From:’ field
- At this point, you’ll need an html editor. Since I use WordPress, I simply created a dummy post in WordPress, then copied the html code from WordPress into gmail. You can also use an online html editor like Red Peach Designs or Real Graphics to generate your html.
- Paste the html into the ‘Signature Html Code:’ block
- Save
There is a slight problem that may drive you crazy because you may think it is not working. If multiple tabs are open, the signature will not be automatically inserted until you switch to another tab and back to Gmail. And at first I did not think Blank Canvas was working because I did not get the icons to the right of the from button. But I went out and back in and there they were.
‘Voilà – you’ve learned a New Trick
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