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adunate
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January 21, 2015
Question

create an email signature image with hyperlinks

  • January 21, 2015
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I want to create a png or jpg image that can be used as an email signature. This will include a photo, company logo and contact text. I need to link to her email text and also her URL text. Is Illustrator the best program to do this? If so, how?

I've tried creating slices and linking them, but it saved into multiple slice images. How do I save it as one png?

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    Silkrooster
    Silkrooster
    Brainiac
    January 21, 2015

    A plain text editor would be better if you don't have access to dream weaver. Html is nothing more than a text file that has tags to point to the location on your server where the images are stored. It is also how you create a link, it is a tag that points to a website, email addresses, etc.

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    adunateAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    January 22, 2015

    Another question for this. This content is to have the client's photo and company logo in it. How can I embed this into the html file it doesn't have to pull from an online source?

    Silkrooster
    Silkrooster
    Brainiac
    January 22, 2015

    You can not. All image must be stored somewhere on the net. The exception would be if the images were on a disk or email attachment and are copied to the computer. Then the html can point to images on computer if it knows where they are stored.

    Since you can not copy files to a computer without authorization, there would be no to know where the images are stored. Therefore the html would fail to find the images.

    Monika Gause
    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    January 21, 2015

    You risk that people won't be able to read this because they've disabled images altogether in their mail software.

    But even if they haven't, you don't want to compose HTML email with editors like Illustrator. Mail software is not particularly good at interpreting HTML.

    You need to know a lot about the details in order to get it to work. And you need to have a fallback (plain text).

    You might be better of if you get a decent, carefully composed HTML e-mail template and adapt it to your needs.

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