John Kavanagh
Indie WebDeveloper
Client-side and Front-end Development. Expert in cross-browser compatibilities, beautiful layouts, accessibility and advanced CSS/XHTML

EMails

Reliable HTML Signatures in Google Mail with Canned Responses

04.02.2009 1

With email’s trumping all other forms of communication for the vast majority of professionals, the ability to include a signature at the bottom of your emails is virtually mandatory: think of it as the heading paper you use when sending out official letters - people are more likely to take you seriously and it gives you an excellent opportunity to not only share all of your contact details with the reception, but also to emanate a further sense of professionalism.

It’s no secret that one of Gmail’s few shortcomings is the complete lack of any native support for HTML email signatures. All you get is a very basic and bland text-based signature:

gmail-signature

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