How to add a Portfolio in your email signature

Xavier Shay 864 posts

UPDATE: You can get this banner through the promote me tab in my bubble.

We’ve just added a nifty new feature to the site – a random image strip of your portfolio. Mine isn’t so great because I only have one work (yay panda), but here’s what Paul’s looks like:

How do I get to it?

This is kind of experimental, so there’s no easy link to it from anywhere yet. You have to make your own URL – don’t worry, it’s not that complicated. It looks like:

http://redbubble.com/people/username/recipe:banner/username_banner.jpg

Where you replace username with your RedBubble username (case-sensitive!),
So if your username was xshay (I can relate) your URL would be:

http://redbubble.com/people/xshay/recipe:banner/xshay_banner.jpg

Tada! (See bottom of this post if you don’t get it)

What do I do with it?

Well, anything you like, but we reckon it looks fairly swell in an email signature. This is easy to do if you use hotmail or yahoo mail – have the image open in a separate window to your webmail signature preference page and drag and drop the image into the signature box (this doesn’t work with safari – FF or IE are fine). Post here if you get it working in your client or if you’re not sure how.

What do you think?

EDIT: BONUS
You can customize the look of the banner using the following parameters:

back_color:ff0000
orientation:vertical
limit:2

For example,
http://redbubble.com/people/paul/recipe:banner;back_color:ffffff;orientation:vertical;limit:2/paul_banner.jpg

SUPER EDIT: Handy Tips
These tips are mentioned in the thread, but it’s getting a bit long so I’ll mention them here

James wrote some instructions for Mail.app
You want to use your username NOT your real name
If you’re using Mail.app, If you have a blue box with a question mark, just send it anyway (to yourself to test). It starts working after you’ve done it once, which is really kind of weird.
If you’re using GMail and Firefox, check out this extension to allow HTML signatures: Better Gmail
You can use this thread to test your signature, but please use the “Edit post” link to the left of your post to correct mistakes rather than posting a new topic
For those using the Mail App in Vista you can find instructions here.

over 2 years ago Xavier Shay 864 posts	UPDATE: You can get this banner through the promote me tab in my bubble. We’ve just added a nifty new feature to the site – a random image strip of your portfolio. Mine isn’t so great because I only have one work (yay panda), but here’s what Paul’s looks like: How do I get to it? This is kind of experimental, so there’s no easy link to it from anywhere yet. You have to make your own URL – don’t worry, it’s not that complicated. It looks like: http://redbubble.com/people/username/recipe:banner/username_banner.jpg Where you replace username with your RedBubble username (case-sensitive!), So if your username was xshay (I can relate) your URL would be: http://redbubble.com/people/xshay/recipe:banner/xshay_banner.jpg Tada! (See bottom of this post if you don’t get it) What do I do with it? Well, anything you like, but we reckon it looks fairly swell in an email signature. This is easy to do if you use hotmail or yahoo mail – have the image open in a separate window to your webmail signature preference page and drag and drop the image into the signature box (this doesn’t work with safari – FF or IE are fine). Post here if you get it working in your client or if you’re not sure how. What do you think? EDIT: BONUS You can customize the look of the banner using the following parameters: back_color:ff0000 orientation:vertical limit:2 For example, http://redbubble.com/people/paul/recipe:banner;back_color:ffffff;orientation:vertical;limit:2/paul_banner.jpg SUPER EDIT: Handy Tips These tips are mentioned in the thread, but it’s getting a bit long so I’ll mention them here James wrote some instructions for Mail.app You want to use your username NOT your real name If you’re using Mail.app, If you have a blue box with a question mark, just send it anyway (to yourself to test). It starts working after you’ve done it once, which is really kind of weird. If you’re using GMail and Firefox, check out this extension to allow HTML signatures: Better Gmail You can use this thread to test your signature, but please use the “Edit post” link to the left of your post to correct mistakes rather than posting a new topic For those using the Mail App in Vista you can find instructions here.
over 2 years ago Murray Swift 470 posts	Thats ikcillint, though, because i’m lazy I like the Widgetinator better!
over 2 years ago Murray Swift 470 posts	But, you guessed it… I use Mail.app :-( It would probably work in Thunderbird but.
over 2 years ago Xavier Shay 864 posts	Actually, maybe I lied about Mail.app Just found two articles which may be of help: – CSS Signatures in Mail.app – HTML Signatures in Mail.app Haven’t tried them yet, hopefully will have some spare time later in the day…
over 2 years ago Jo Young 38 posts	Ooohhh, I do like this. Works fine in my hotmail, looks excellent! Now I have to work out how to put it in my website email address….too many email addresses! Well done, Xavier
over 2 years ago Murray Swift 470 posts	I tried it in mail.app (CSS) didnt work, will try again later, have to go and do some work to earn a crust :-(
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	i use gmail :(
over 2 years ago Xavier Shay 864 posts	So the boss just found a “feature”, which is never fun :( Your user name is case sensitive, in other words he had to use “Pilgrim” not “pilgrim”. Of course this will be fixed next release, but for now remember those capitals!
over 2 years ago Xavier Shay 864 posts	mswift, try the second link (HTML one), james managed to get that to work.
over 2 years ago Craig Shillington 151 posts	Well Xavier …. that is AWESOME!! Love it. I can’t get it to work using Windows Mail on Vista though for some reason. It just shows the code ... not the banner when I send tests to myself. Dunno, I checked everything and all is HTML so I have no idea. But it’s a great idea. I added it to the top of my Profile in RB!!!! Looks great there also!! :)
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	Craig i like that idea to add it into your profile…mind if i pinch it>?
over 2 years ago Craig Shillington 151 posts	Hehe You go for your life Jess ya dag. Looks great in there, I hope a lot of others do it too, because it may show works that otherwise wouldn’t get looked at eh. :) :) VBS
over 2 years ago Lee Wilde 1406 posts	Another cool feature. Would be great if we could have signatures beneath our comments. Some sites display a member’s signature once, beneath the first comment they make, but not subsequent comments on the same page.
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	I really hate to be a drag and a nag, but do you think being able to organize our portfolios is in the cards soon? I’ve thought about deleting them all and adding them in newly, but then i would lose all my comments, but i feel grumbly every time i open my profile, wishing i could chose at least the pics for the first page
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	hmmm…doesn’t seem to be working for me…do you have to add the ”’s before and after the url?
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	oops, think i figured it out…never mind me, i’m a bit slow on these things
over 2 years ago Xavier Shay 864 posts	I really hate to be a drag and a nag, but do you think being able to organize our portfolios is in the cards soon? We’re getting there. If only there were more hours in the day :) think I figured it out Your profile looks good. Could the instructions have been clearer?
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	no, i’m just not very computer smart, haha, your instructions were great… except maybe you could let people know to put the !’s before and after link…that’s what was missing for mine…but i’m sure that’s common sense to everyone else
over 2 years ago Jessica Tremp 589 posts	by the way, you guys are doing a fantastic job with this website, always looks professional and up to date, ...
over 2 years ago Melinda Kerr 685 posts	Great idea guys. I’d love to use it but sadly I have Mac mail and I can’t get it to work (read:boo hoo). Tried entourage too and I can’t make that work either :(
over 2 years ago James Pierce 255 posts	I’ve got it working in mac mail but it’s not super simple. I used the instructions from Xaviers second link.
over 2 years ago thickblackoutline 436 posts	was wondering if we can have a vertical version?
over 2 years ago Melinda Kerr 685 posts	Hi James, I tried the second link but still couldn’t work it out. Any chance you could paste your code here? Or something for me to be guided by? I’m obviously doing something drastically wrong! I created an html file in go live and just pasted the code in it and saved it as a web archive – is that right? or should i have more code?
over 2 years ago marieancolie 20 posts	This is very interesting . Merci Xavier I’ll do it in my hotmail . if it does not work with GMail …..(pity !)
over 2 years ago James Pierce 255 posts	My HTML is on my other computer – so I’ll post that up in the morning but basically here’s what I did… Go into mail. Make any ole sig. Close mail Make what you want in HTML Load it in safari – check it looks jiggy Save it as a web archive somewhere Go into ~/Library/mail/signature COPY the filename of the web archive that’s there. rename that file to backup.webarchive drag the other webarchive in there rename that new file to the name you copied before start mail The stopping and starting of mail seems key – I’ve tired before and failed too !