How to Make an Email Signature on Gmail

Spend less time on your gmail emails by learning how to make a signature. An email signature will be attached to the end of each email you send. Signature lines make your emails look professional, too. As long as you have a gmail account, you are ready to make an email signature on gmail with these steps.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A gmail account

1. Log into your gmail account.
   
   If you don't have one, then use the link in resources to get you to gmail, or you can enter "gmail" in your search box at the top of your screen. Once you are to Google's gmail page look toward the right of your screen and you should see a login box. Under that, look for the "create an account" box. Follow the directions on gmail to set up your account, then see step two below to start learning how to set up your email signature.

2. Look toward the top of your screen. Right next to your email address, you should see a tab for settings. Click on settings. This will get you the area that you need to go to set up your email signature.

3. Go to "Signature." This should be about seven options down under your settings tab.

4. Find the signature writing box underneath the "no signature" option.

5. Decide what you want your signature to say. You may want to get ideas from people who have a similar job title as you. You can also look through your emails for creative email signatures from friends, family or business contacts and generate ideas from those.
   
   Example 1:
   Jenny Joplin
   Vice President of Marketing
   Creative Resources, Inc.
   
   Example 2:
   George Smith
   www.yourwebsitename.com
   "Your favorite quote."

6. Make sure your email signature is appropriate for all of your email contacts, or remember to delete your signature line from your email before you send it, if necessary.

7. Keep in mind that you cannot (at this time) put HTML into your signature line without some effort (see related articles for a possible solution). This effects your signature line, because you can't write code into your signature line that links a phrase (like your company name) to a website.
   
   You can put your website address in your signature though. Just write it out. For example, http://www.examiner.com/x-16745-Richmond-Yoga-Examiner. Of course this is not ideal. Your email signature would prettier if it just said "Richmond Yoga Examiner" and you could click on it and get to the website. Google is probably coming up for a solution for this as this article is being written... or again, see related articles to find a work around.

8. See resources and related articles for help and more information!

Tips & Warnings

• Make your gmail signature appropriate for all email contacts.

Resources

• Gmail