I loved my signature, it had some attitude.
I recently found out how to spruce up emailing by using my Facebook profile badge as a signature.
We’ll go through the steps required to make it in a little while.
Right now, I’d like to point out a few things.
Firstly, this trick is meant to be used in Mail, Mac’s default desktop mailing utility.
Lastly, you’ll needTextWrangler, a free HTML-capable text editor or any other HTML editor.
It’s very simple and you only need to follow the on-screen instructions.
A horizontal badge works best in this situation.
When you’re done, preview your badge.
If you’re happy with your creation, choose Save.
On the next screen, you’ll be presented with the sharing options.
press “Other” and the badge’s code will appear.
hit it once and press Command+C to copy it to the clipboard.
Open up TextWranger or any HTML editor of your choice and paste the code in a new document.
It adds a link to your profile and another link for others to create their own badge.
It won’t look very pretty so we’re going to delete it.
Here’s how it should look like after removing the useless bits.
Alright, now we’re going to add a space above the signature just for the sake of convenience.
All we need to do now is to remove the width and height attributes from the code.
In actuality, the Facebook badge changes in dimension depending on your status, links, etc.
So remove this part of the code:
Finally, we’re ready to save the HTML file.
hit File, then Save As.
key in in any name followed by “.html” as shown in the screenshot.
grab the Desktop as the destination and click Save.
Double-poke the resulting file and it should open up in Safari.
Again, check that that the Desktop is selected as the destination and click Save.
Just a little bit more and we’re done.
Remember when I mentioned earlier that you should already have a signature attached to your email account in Mail?
Open up a new Finder window and delve down to ~/Library/Mail/Signatures.
There should be a minimum of 2 files there if you only have 1 email account set up.
One file should be formatted as .webarchive.
Mine looks like “FED17D3A-AC4C-490D-93CB-80634BD2A114”.
Use this to rename the webarchive file which you’ve just saved on the Desktop.
After you’ve renamed it, click and drag it into the Signature folder.
Finder will ask you if you’re sure you want to replace the existing file, click Yes.
And we’re done.
Relaunch Mail and give it a whirl.
Compose a new mail and your signature should show up.
How easy was that?
No plugins, additional software or expert skills required!
What do you use as your email signature?
