One thing that I really want people to feel when they look into Adventure Valley is that we are a professional company, not just a bunch of kids trying to make something happen. (Although we are that too :). ) So I try to convey professionalism in everything we do; our events, our online presence, and even our emails. Truthfully we do not send out a lot of emails right now, but I wanted to be ready when we do. And it is for that reason that I dedicated my afternoon to creating a real email signature.
I already have an email signature at my day job. Of course it was provided to me by the marketing department, but I was the one that added it to my emails so I was already half way to knowing how to implement one for Adventure Valley, right? Wrong. It turns out that there is a lot more to making an email signature than typing it into the little signature box in Apple Mail. So I turned to the internet.
After just a minute of searching "how to create your own email signature" it became clear that the preferred method was html. I am NOT a programmer. Yes, I work for a software design company, and yes I have seen html code before, but that does not mean that I knew the first thing about how to use it for my signature. But that is what google is for. It wasn't long before I found this great article with an html signature template and everything!
That leads me to the next problem. If you want a picture or logo in your signature (which I do) you have to have a way to host it online. I wasn't even sure if I knew what that meant. I found an article that mentioned you could host it on google drive, but that was a dead end. I also tried to upload it to the Go Daddy photo album that came free with our website domain. But alas, that too did not lead me to the direct link to the photo that the internet said I needed. Eventually I just typed in "how to host a photo online" and that led me to imgur. I didn't even have to create an account with imgur and I was able to upload my logo and even resize it and crop it. Plus, the direct link was showing in a field right next to my photo. Cha-ching!
So I was able to create my signature, using the template and an online html editor, but that is when the aformentioned article stopped helping. The directions on how to insert my html into the signature file must have been outdated because the file no longer existed where the article said it would.
What operating system is Apple even on these days? I checked my "about this mac", it's Yosemite. Wait, that's not a type of big cat... oh well. Anyway, one more internet search on "how to create an html mail signature on yosemite" and bam! I find a new article that not only shows me exactly how to find these very well hidden signature files, but also suggests a great fee html editor that was much easier to use than the online one that I had started this project with.
So there you go, proof that the only skill you need in life is the ability to use google, and that will lead to step by step instructions on how to do anything else.
And, here it is, the signature in all it's glory. Complete with logo.
Thanks for sharing this victory with me. AND for sharing my second victory today which is writing my first Adventure Valley blog post! ;)
-Whitney
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