Hacking Gmail - Get an Image in Your Signature with Greasemonkey!

June 29th, 2007 in General by Dan

I’m a big fan of Gmail. I have to admit that when I first checked it out I wasn’t amazingly impressed, but as time goes on I’m really liking this program. But, with all its benefits there are a few things about Gmail that were a little frustrating.

For one, Gmail does not allow you to put an image in the signature area of your emails. If you’re sending out emails from your business, wouldn’t you want to put your logo down there? Its a great thing to do so you can start to build up your brand recognition a little bit more each time you send out an email. Why do you think companies spend so much time using special letterhead?

Well, as I thought more about this program I started to look into it more and found out that there is a GreaseMonkey script that will allow you to put an image in your signature with Gmail! Another great hack from GreaseMonkey!

So, in order for this to work, first you need to be using Firefox. You can download Firefox by clicking on the button on the sidebar of this blog. After you have Firefox, you’ll need to get the GreaseMonkey plugin. Once you’ve installed the plugin you need to get the script for it. So here’s the link for the script: Gmail Signature Float.

Now, when you go into your Gmail account you can add an image to your signature. Here are the steps to set up a signature:

1- Login to your Gmail account
2- Click on Settings
3- The 6th option down is the Signature
4- You’ll have to choose the radio button next to the big empty box, that’s where you put in your signature information
5- Below the signature box you should have a few check boxes. Check all of these boxes.
6- Click on Save Changes at the bottom of the page

Gmail Signature

To add an image to your signature you’ll have to use HTML code. Just in case, here’s the basic code for an image reference: <img src=”full address of image location online” />. You’ll have to upload the image to your website and reference it from there.

So there you go, another great use of GreaseMonkey!

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9 Comments

Delores DardenJune 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

I love the new look. However, you are such an expert, your blogs will be read by anybody wanting to learn something about ecommerce even if the design was blah. Great job.

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DanJune 30th, 2007 at 9:54 am

Delores,
Thanks for the compliment, and I’m glad you like the new look of the blog.

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cathryneJanuary 21st, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Here’s a script for the Greasemonkey Firefox add-on that allows you to use several HTML signatures in gmail:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/20887

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CliffNovember 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

I do not have gmail but know someone who does and as far as I can tell you can not store emails in folders like you can on yahoo

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Dan Reply:
November 14th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

You can, it’s just done a different way. In Gmail you give emails ‘labels’ and they basically work like folders. The nice thing is that you can technically assign multiple labels to the same email, sort of like tags.

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cheap ghdApril 23rd, 2010 at 5:26 pm

The nice thing is that you can technically assign multiple labels to the same email, sort of like tags.

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PolozzApril 30th, 2010 at 8:27 am

I’ll try it to my gmail!

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