Clickable hyperlinks in email signatures - how?

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02/20/2013 10:36:34 PM · #1

I work for a theatre company that runs an interactive dinner theatre all over Australia and many countries overseas.
We work with many different venues and part of my job is to supply promotional materials including email signatures.

I start from a basic template PSD which has text and two small photos, plus we have OUR website and the VENUE website listed.

I adjust the template with the appropriate dates, times and booking details, then turn it into a jpg and send it to the venue.

How do I get my two website URLs to be clickable?

Keep in mind that it gets passed on as a jpg (or I embed it in my email and ask them to copy it straight from there).

Thanks for any help.

Skip

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02/20/2013 10:44:34 PM · #2

haven't tried it myself, but check this out

Bear_Music

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02/20/2013 10:46:36 PM · #3

As far as I know, an e-mail signature has to be HTML to be clickable. I know BBCode can make clickable signatures in forums, but I don't think e-mail encodes BBCode.

Here's how to do it in HTML.

But these can't be passed along as JPG's, they have to be handed over as code.

02/20/2013 10:50:11 PM · #4

Originally posted by Skip:

haven't tried it myself, but check this out

Two problems: I can only do ONE link, not my two websites, and it wouldn't work as a jpg that I send, plus probably wouldn't even work when it gets copied by the venue to be inserted into THEIR email.

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02/20/2013 10:51:02 PM · #5

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

So that idea is out, too :-(

Bear_Music

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02/20/2013 10:56:03 PM · #6

Originally posted by Beetle:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:
As far as I know, an e-mail signature has to be HTML to be clickable. I know BBCode can make clickable signatures in forums, but I don't think e-mail encodes BBCode.

Here's how to do it in HTML.

But these can't be passed along as JPG's, they have to be handed over as code.

So that idea is out, too :-(

I don't see why; you pass the code over to them and tell them to paste it in their signature field and there it is...

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02/20/2013 11:38:21 PM · #7

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

I don't see why; you pass the code over to them and tell them to paste it in their signature field and there it is...

So how do I code TWO different URLs - each going to a different website - on a picture?

I think I might be able to follow those instructions if I were typing out a basic signature, but since I am inserting a jpg, I don't understand how to point it to the URLs (which are no longer words because they are simply part of a picture now)?

paynekj

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02/21/2013 03:50:08 AM · #8

If it were on a web-site you would use an image map but I don't know if that would work in an email as it would require everyone's email client to understand it.

Kroburg

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02/21/2013 07:09:49 AM · #9

Can you send me an example of one of these emails? Maybe it is possible to use the jpg as a background in the email and use normal text layers to make the links?

Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S

02/21/2013 07:18:32 AM · #10

Originally posted by Kroburg:

Can you send me an example of one of these emails? Maybe it is possible to use the jpg as a background in the email and use normal text layers to make the links?

This is my starter template right here ( I don't think I'd get in trouble for posting a generic sample signature complete with a real URL...... right?):

Kroburg

Nikon Z6II

02/21/2013 07:24:40 AM · #11

Originally posted by Beetle:

Originally posted by Kroburg:
Can you send me an example of one of these emails? Maybe it is possible to use the jpg as a background in the email and use normal text layers to make the links?

This is my starter template right here ( I don't think I'd get in trouble for posting a generic sample signature complete with a real URL...... right?):

Thanks, will give it a try, see if my solution or the image map solution will work

Mike

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02/21/2013 07:55:52 AM · #12

you could break up the image into three parts, the upper portion being a dead image and the bottom two each being a separate images hyperlinked to a different website.

the only problem is getting the recipient email client to view it properly or dealing with those who don't use html.

Message edited by author 2013-02-21 07:56:17.

Kroburg

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Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S

02/21/2013 08:34:00 AM · #13

Hi, I managed to create a normal email with your template and two clickable links. Just used some HTML and the usemap code. Can you send me an email message, I can then reply and send the clickable template to you as a test.