Comments on: Email Signatures – Make Them Work for You http://www.mikanovsky.com/blog/2010/08/23/email-signatures-make-them-work-for-you/ Art Squared with Moshe Mikanovsky - artist, writer, teacher, friend. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:32:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Moshe Mikanovsky http://www.mikanovsky.com/blog/2010/08/23/email-signatures-make-them-work-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3062 Moshe Mikanovsky Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:47:42 +0000 http://www.mikanovsky.com/blog/?p=1408#comment-3062 Hi Deborah, This is true, for some emails systems. If the recipient get the email in HTML format, then the anchors will be clickable. But if the email is recieved in plain text, then they are not. It is hard to know who will get in which format, and also sometimes the same system will show some emails in HTML and others in plain text.... Saying that, it is a wise advise to include some of the URLs in the open and rather than anchors. In my own signature, I put my main addresses in the open, such as my website, blog and Facebook page. Other links I do use anchors, and yes, some people won't be able to use them... but at least they have my main addresses. Cheers Moshe Hi Deborah,

This is true, for some emails systems. If the recipient get the email in HTML format, then the anchors will be clickable. But if the email is recieved in plain text, then they are not. It is hard to know who will get in which format, and also sometimes the same system will show some emails in HTML and others in plain text…. Saying that, it is a wise advise to include some of the URLs in the open and rather than anchors.

In my own signature, I put my main addresses in the open, such as my website, blog and Facebook page.
Other links I do use anchors, and yes, some people won’t be able to use them… but at least they have my main addresses.

Cheers
Moshe

]]> By: Deborah Younglao http://www.mikanovsky.com/blog/2010/08/23/email-signatures-make-them-work-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3059 Deborah Younglao Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:07:02 +0000 http://www.mikanovsky.com/blog/?p=1408#comment-3059 In a webinar I listened to, the presenter said that anchor links are great everywhere else but in email. He said they were sometimes unclickable for the recipient and to stick to the actual web addresses in your signature. So I'm a bit confused! Now this was a a couple of years ago - do I assume that things have improved sufficiently to make it 'safe' to use anchors in email? I do prefer them but have been playing it safe and not using anchors in my signature. In a webinar I listened to, the presenter said that anchor links are great everywhere else but in email. He said they were sometimes unclickable for the recipient and to stick to the actual web addresses in your signature. So I’m a bit confused! Now this was a a couple of years ago – do I assume that things have improved sufficiently to make it ‘safe’ to use anchors in email? I do prefer them but have been playing it safe and not using anchors in my signature.

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