Creating mac mail html signatures

Hi all: All the other mail products (Outlook, etc) allow easy creation of mail signatures as HTML's by a simple click of a link icon.
I cannot find any mention of html signatures in mac mail except for those who know how to write code.
Is this the case? If so, whatever happened to Apple being the user friendly platform as opposed to PC's?
Very frustrated and ironic that owning a mac (since 1985--of course, not the same one) is requiring me to hire someone who speaks and writes computerese.
Please advise.

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Making a fancy HTML signature is a little more involved than that. It's not very user friendly. There are a number of tutorials on the internet for hacking them up. Here is one example: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/16/mac-101-making-a-fancy-signature-in-mail-app/ and there are many others.
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Hi,
Thanks for the responses. I requested another cert and that did not help. Here is the process I used after requesting another cert.
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Can you recommend how I can create an HTML signature for mac mail?

Can you recommend how I can create an HTML signature for mac mail?

http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-make-an-html-signature-in-apple-mail-for-maveri cks-os-x-10-dot-9/

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Here's what I do & a solution to all who want to use an HTML signature with links and even CSS in-line formatting. FYI Mail uses the web archive format to produce the signature file.
It looks more complicated than it really is:
1. CLOSE THE MAIL APP
2. Create the HTML you want to use as a signature.
3. Open the file using Safari and save it as a web archive onto your desktop.
4. Go into mail and create a new signature. This doesn't have to be anything special since you are going to overwrite it anyway.
5. Open finder and navigate to Username > Library > Mail > Signatures
6. Copy the name of the new signature (it's long!) you just created there (the one with today's date and time you created it incase there are others).
7. Rename the webarchive you created on your desktop from the HTML signature you created in step 1 with the name of the 'Mail-created' signature.
8. Copy that webarchive into the Signatures folder and replace the other one with the same name.
9. Reopen Mail and assign your new signature to your account(s).
I even use images in a few of mine. Have a blast.

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Definitely is your problem.
The image will not show up on anyone else's computer, but your own if it is fetched locally.
You should be able to paste the the image address in the browser and the image should render independent of Mail.
That is the nature of html mail, it reaches out to fetch the images in the mark-up.
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Jodain
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Part III: takes the saved draft and opens it up for editing. The open command only lets you view the message, even if it is outgoing, so I had to come up with a work-around so you can still edit as if you're composing it for the first time.
--Part I
tell application "Safari" to set this_html to source of document 1
tell application "Safari" to set this_page to name of document 1
--Part II
tell application "Mail"
activate
set theMsg to make new outgoing message with properties ¬
{subject:this_page, html content:this_html & ¬
return & return, content:""}
tell theMsg to make new to recipient
save theMsg
--Part III
if not (exists the front message viewer) then make new ¬
message viewer
tell front message viewer
set selected mailboxes to {the drafts mailbox}
set sort column to date received column
set sorted ascending to false
delay 3
set selected messages to {first message}
tell application "System Events" to tell process ¬
"Mail" to keystroke return
end tell
end tell

Can i use an html signature with mail in SL?

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create a dummy signature in mail preferences->signatures. then go to the directory /users/username/library/mail/signatures and locate the webarchive with your signature. then make an html file using your favorite html editor. put whatever you need in it. save it and open it in safari. then save it as a webarchive from safari and overwrite the dummy signature you made with that webarchive.

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