Signatures in hotmail, yahoo

Posted by dec12 on Wed, 03/29/2006 - 08:04SFX Web Apps

greetings everyone

i am new to html and i plan to spread firefox and put firefox flick into my email signature. but after i copy and paste this:

<a href="?q=affiliates&id=0&t=59"><img border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/safer.gif"/></a>

and try to send an email to another email account of mine, it didnt show the banner/image. it just show the html line as above. do i need to embed it? please do advise..

 

thanks

 

 


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Missing Domain Name..
Submitted by HackerOfMinds on Thu, 03/30/2006 - 19:34.

dec12,

you haven't added the name of the website in your url. You need to change the first tag as follows:

<a href="X/?q=affiliates&amp;id=168608">

(replace the X with - http:// www. spreadfirefox .com / - without spaces - a bug(?) with this site's composer prevents that part from being displayed if put correctly - maybe you had the same experience?? )

Also, I have changed the 'id' value to your affiliate link.

(Place your mouse over your name in your post and look at the status bar - the number you see is your id.)

Only if this is correct will you get the points if someone clicks on your link.

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Depends
Submitted by jorge.villalobos on Thu, 03/30/2006 - 00:18.

That depends on which email program you're using. According to the title, you're referring to web mail apps such as Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. On those cases, it depends on how flexible their signatures are. If you see an option by which you can edit your signature using HTML directly, then that's how you paste that code. I doubt you'll find that in many places.

I tested on Hotmail and there's no such thing. They use rich text editors, so pasting the code has that effect you mentioned. The correct way of adding the images to your signature is to select them on the page (just as you select text), copy them with Ctrl+C or Right+click > Copy and then paste them into the textbox. I'm talking about selecting the actual image, not the code. I tested it on Hotmail and it works fine. Don't know about Yahoo!

Good luck, and keep spreading the word :).

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