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A signature can appear automatically at the bottom of an email or a
post to a forum.
Each email provider and bulletin board has a different
way to set it up. Many email sites have it under Options.
(Yahoo choose Color and Graphics first and then HTML)
Most signatures contain one or more of the
following:
 | your name |
 | your email address |
 | snail mail address and phone |
 | your web site address |
 | a graphic. |
The graphic requires that you put in the follow HTML code <img src="url-of-graphic">.
Be sure to insert the complete URL of the graphic such as http://sumware.com/UCC/images/sebasti.gif
between the two quote-marks "
for .
(see below for procedure to copy the URL)
the HTML <img src="http://facultu.ucc.edu/business-greenbaum/images/faces.gif">
points to a the graphic
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It must be entered EXACTLY as above:
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< (less than) before everything |
 | > (greater than) at the very end |
 | img
src with a space in-between img and src (that is the only space between
the < and the >.) |
 | two double quotes "
 | before the http |
 | before the > |
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The best way to get the web address of of graphic is to
 | right click on it
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 | select Properties |
 | highlight the complete URL |
 | copy the ENTIRE address to the clipboard |
 | paste it between to "s. |
Step by step
- go to window with the web page that has the graphic you wish to use
- right click on the graphics (be sure that you have permission to use
that graphic)
- select Properties from the short menu
- highlight the URL (everything from http:// to gif or jpg)
- point at the highlighted letters
- right click
- select copy from the short menu
- go to the window where you are creating your signature
- type <img src=""> Note there are two
double quotes
- click between the two " (quotes)
- paste (Ctrl+V or right click Paste) this name that is on the clipboard
from step 7 between the two "
Prof. Maureen <img src="http://sumware.com/UCC/images/sebasti.gif">
Using
something special:
Find a graphic one you like
that is small (less than 2k). If you find one at a free clipart
site, it is courtesy to store it on your own page if you intend to use it
as a signature. To do that you:
 | point at it |
 | right click |
 | select Save Picture As |
 | select a drive (M at school or C: at home and a directory) |
 | modify the name if you want |
 | go to
Tripod (or some other place in cyberspace where you have space) and Upload it
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 | put its URL between the "" .
For example <img src="http://yoursite/images/yourpicture.jpg">
Note: Rather than type that,
 | point at the picture |
 | select Properties, |
 | highlight the URL (everything from http:// to gif or jpg)
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 | point at the highlighted letters |
 | right click |
 | copy |
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