Creating Custom Email Signatures

You can insert a custom signature merge variable into your emails. This way, you do not have to copy and paste your signature every time you want to include it in an email. Once set, you can set it to be automatically attached to any email that includes the custom signature merge variable.

This article will detail how to create, add, and preview custom signatures in emails. 

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Article Contents

• Regarding Signature Creation
• Creating Custom Signatures: Signature Designer
• Creating Custom Signatures: HTML
• Adding Custom Signatures to Emails
• Adding Custom Signatures to Smart Mails
• Previewing Custom Signatures via Smart Mail

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Regarding Signature Creation

Certain external websites offer free services that generate HTML for use with custom email signatures.

Be aware that Constant Contact is not responsible for the content of these websites. Use their services at your discretion.

Creating Custom Signatures: Signature Designer

You can utilize the Lead Gen & CRM platform's Signature Designer to create custom signatures that appear at the end of your sent emails.

The Signature Designer is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get text editor, and it provides a simple, effective way of producing signatures.

To create custom signatures using the Signature Designer, start from Settings in the left toolbar.

1. Under My Account in the left panel, click User Email Settings.
2. Click the Custom Email Signature tab.
3. Click    Text Editor in the Signature Designer toolbar and utilize the available features of the Signature Designer to create or edit your email signature in the Custom Email Signature text box.
   
   
   Note: When adding images, you cannot modify the image size or dimensions in the Signature Designer. Image sizes are static and dependent on the hosted image itself. Modify the size of the image with an external image editor before adding it into the signature.
4. Click Save.
   
   

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Signature Designer Toolbar

The available features in the Signature Designer toolbar are as follows:

Creating Custom Signatures: HTML

You can use the Signature Designer if you would prefer to create a custom signature by coding it with HTML.

To create custom email signatures in the Signature Designer using HTML, start from Settings in the top toolbar.

1. Under My Account in the left panel, click User Email Settings.
2. Click the Custom Email Signature tab.
3. Click    Edit Code in the Signature Designer toolbar and enter the HTML of the signature in the Custom Email Signature text box.
   
   
   Note: The Enter key on the keyboard does not function in HTML code the same way that it does in a word processor. To add empty lines of space between sentences, you will need to utilize <br> and <p> tags.
4. Click Save.
   
   

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The custom signature will be displayed in the Text Editor. It will update as content is modified.

When using custom signatures, use <id> and <class> tags, and not just <element> tags.  This is due to that, when customizing a signature, using tag names in the styling will affect any elements below the signature if those elements do not have their own inline styling to overwrite it.

Adding Custom Signatures to Emails

Once you have created a custom signature, you can add it into emails to send to contacts. Read the Adding Custom Signatures to Emails article to learn how to add your custom signature to your emails.

Adding Custom Signatures to Smart Mails

Once you have created a custom signature, you can add it into Smartmail. Read the Adding Custom Signatures to Emails article to learn how to add your custom signature to your Smart Mail.

Once clicked, the Insert Your Email Signature tool will add your custom email signature to the bottom of your Smart Mail.

Previewing Custom Signatures via Smart Mail

Before sending Smart Mail, you can preview the email to see if the custom signature looks the way you want it to. 

Important: For emails to appear as a Smart Mail, the Make Available as a Smart Mail in Contact Manager checkbox must be checked in    Send Settings.

Read Adding Custom Signatures to Emails to learn how to preview your custom signature in Smart Mail.