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adunate
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January 21, 2015
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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
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    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
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    January 22, 2015

    Thanks Silkrooster and Monica Gause. I do have Dreamweaver. So I should create this as an html and the client would just copy and paste this text into her signature? Am I correct that this would be a 1-shot copy/paste thing, since she is not overly tech savvy?

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    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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