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Creating fancy signatures

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Othalian

Othalian

Technical User
Mar 1, 2006
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Hi All,

I have been asked by the bosses upstairs to find out how to create a signature in Outlook at can have the name slide down from above, the adress slide in from the left or right and have the telephone number appear from below or fade in. My question is can it be done?

If this is possible how can it be achieved? I have search this forum and looked around the net but to no avail. Any assistance with this matter would be great.

Regards

Othalian (New man on the block)
 
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I think you need to make an animated gif file and use that for your signature. Let your bosses know this will make them look way unprofessional and bloat their emails.

The answer has always been 42
 
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i swear i've received emails with this in.

i've been looking how to do it... check out the following html... copy it into a .html file and create a signature with it.

Problem I have is that it crashes Word when using Word as my email editor. When I switch this off tools->options->mail format-> use microsoft office word 2003 to edit e-mail messages, then it works fine!


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Sig</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV align=left>&nbsp;</DIV>
<MARQUEE id=MARQUEE1 style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 57px" scrollDelay=10
direction=down behavior=slide loop=1 height=5 border="0"><FONT face=Garamond
color=#000000 size=4>NickPark</FONT></MARQUEE></B></FONT><BR>
<MARQUEE id=MARQUEE2 style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 17px" scrollDelay=10
behavior=slide loop=1 height=5 border="0"><B><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=1>Fancy Signature Co.</FONT></B></MARQUEE><BR><BLINK><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 12px"><SAMP><FONT color=#0000ff>
<MARQUEE id=MARQUEE3 style="WIDTH: 341px; HEIGHT: 34px" scrollDelay=150
direction=up behavior=slide loop=1 height=34 border="0">
<DIV><B><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#c0c0c0><FONT size=1><SPAN
class=547230715-23042002>Somehwere in the uk...</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></MARQUEE></FONT></SAMP></SPAN></BLINK><FONT color=#000080>
<MARQUEE id=MARQUEE3 style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 67px" scrollDelay=80
direction=up behavior=slide loop=1 height=3 border="0">
<DIV><B><FONT face=Arial color=#808080 size=1></FONT></B>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><B><FONT face=Arial color=#808080 size=1>Phone:
+48474893789379</FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV><B><FONT face=Arial color=#808080 size=1>378938903<BR><A
href="mailto:nickpark@somedomain.com">Mail me!</A>&nbsp; -&nbsp; </FONT></B></DIV></MARQUEE></FONT><BR>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>



 
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I'm not gonna suppply a script for you, since you'll find any number of suitable examples out there - would be a good(ish) place to start

But bear in mind that the chances are that any recipients of your bosses' emails are likely to:

1. reject the mail at the server, due to (potentially) unsafe content

or

2. strip the HTML/script out

Net result: it was a waste of time/money developing the solution in the first place


At best (for some bizarre reason, the recipients don't reject such mails), you will have to cope with different client-side approaches - Does the viewer rely on your browser (is it I.E., Mozilla, what? ... Which version?) ... or does it have an internal viewer (in which case, how does it deal with javascript/vbscript/css/xss?)

Net result: lots of people see different things (if anything at all) - making a mockery of the brand at best ... annoying your customers/partners/suppliers at worst


I would also call into question your bosses' understanding of corporate commncations - Why aren't your customers et al looking at your company website? That is the place for fancy-schmanzy eye-candy, where I can be wowed by your technical/design ingenuity. My mailbox, which I have to pay for, is not!

You're probably better off considering alternative solutions, such as emails containing links to a page on the website, rather than any content - Put what you want the recipient(s) to read on your website and mail a link ... It's quicker, cheaper, allows a more sophisticated solution and less likely to annoy people.

If they absolutely *have* to have an unnecessarily enables .sig, then HTML mail would be the way to go - But see 1 & 2 above


Good luck with dissuading them of their folly :)
 
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Try this one, see if it crashes

Copy into a new text document

Save as whatever.htm

Test by double clicking the htm file

Insert as signature in outlook

restest.

Still crashing ?

If not, edit to your requirements. (open windows explorer, navigate to file, right click, open with.. notepad)



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>




<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=147312707-09102002></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=147312707-09102002></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">
<DIV style="WIDTH: 350px; HEIGHT: 50px">
<DIV align=left>
<MARQUEE id=Marquee1 style="WIDTH: 350px; HEIGHT: 45px" trueSpeed
scrollAmount=1 scrollDelay=20 direction=down behavior=slide loop=1
border="2"><FONT
size=1>____________________________________________</FONT><BR><B><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN class=363550613-11102002></SPAN><FONT color=#000066><FONT
size=2><FONT face=Verdana>Paul&nbsp;Ha<SPAN
class=363550613-11102002></SPAN></FONT><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></MARQUEE>
<MARQUEE id=Marquee2 style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 17px" trueSpeed
scrollAmount=1 scrollDelay=3 behavior=slide loop=1 border="0"><FONT
face=Verdana color=#000066 size=1><SPAN class=363550613-11102002>
IT Department</SPAN></FONT></MARQUEE><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<MARQUEE id=Marquee3 style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 17px"
trueSpeed scrollAmount=1 scrollDelay=3 direction=right behavior=slide loop=1
border="0"><FONT size=1><SPAN
class=363550613-11102002></SPAN></FONT></MARQUEE>
<MARQUEE id=Marquee3 style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 17px"
trueSpeed scrollAmount=4 scrollDelay=5 direction=right behavior=slide loop=1
border="0"><SPAN class=363550613-11102002><FONT size=1><A
href="mailto:paul.ha@tek-tips.com">paul.ha@tek-tips.com</A></FONT></SPAN></MARQUEE></FONT>
<MARQUEE id=Marquee4
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"
trueSpeed scrollAmount=3 scrollDelay=20 direction=up behavior=slide loop=1
WIDTH: 250px; HEIGHT: 60px? 0?>
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width=230 bgColor=#000066>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle width=88 bgColor=#000066><FONT
face=Verdana><I><FONT size=1>&nbsp;<SPAN
class=363550613-11102002>::</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT size=2>
</FONT></FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle width=130 bgColor=#ffffff><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1><A
href=" <TR bgColor=#efefef>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle colSpan=2><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#666666
size=1>My Business <BR>International Business Centre<BR> Second Avenue<BR> USA
<BR>Washington <BR> Texas<BR>
USA <BR> 01 666999</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></A></FONT></MARQUEE></DIV></DIV>
<DIV align=left>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV align=left><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></FONT>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><CODE><FONT size=3><BR><BR></FONT></CODE>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>
 
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Hi all,

Crash and tumble, that is what happened to my system. Not nice.

Regards

Othalian
 
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That should answer your question and validate what artifax was saying. It might work well, but then again, not everyone is using outlook/exchange, which might make it look like garbage.

Here's another pushback: You have to justify buying any new hardware....they should have to justify how much time & $$ you'll spend working on this project that will not be 100% compatable across all platforms.

Go with flash or cgi on your corporate web page. Do your marketing there, not on the far mor volitile email server.
 
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I am using Outlook 2003, can create the sig, but when used just shows up as blank/gray boxes and then same when received.

I have even sent this from outside using PEGASUS as the E-mailer with the same results.

good luck on conveince them this is not needed (LOL) (LOL)
 
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