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Whenever we write a letter, be it personal or official in nature, we would sign off with our signature at the end of the letter. I’ve been browsing many blogs and reading up on a lot of blog posts, but have yet to come across bloggers signing off their blog posts with their signature.

What is stopping bloggers from signing off their online writings when it is such a natural habit in our offline life? Is it the lack of online tools available to create that digital signature which will surely take the ‘coldness’ out your blog posts and make it more personalized?

If that’s the case, then help is on hand. I found this website MyLiveSignature.com which offers free web-base tool and templates to help you easily create your own personal signature! You don’t even have to register and set-up an account to use this free service. A paid service is also available(charges from $19.95) where experienced animators will analyze the calligraphic nuances of your signature to create an animated signature full of life energy!

In this post, I think it would be fun and useful for you, that I focus on the free service and step-by-step process of creating and installing your personalized signature on your blog posts.

Go to MyLiveSignature.com and click on Proceed button. Next, click on the Create Signature button to create your new signature using the signature creation wizard.

Step 1. Enter your name

Step 2. Select the font. 120 different fonts are available for selection.Here, I’ve selected font #14 for my signature.

Step 3. Select the font size, from #1(smallest) – #10(biggest)

Step 4. Select the Color
Step 5. Set the Slope (#1 being straight – #10 being steepest slant)

Five easy steps and you are done with the creation process and will be given your unique signature ID. You should copy the ID and save it for future use.

Next, click on the “want to use this signature?” link which will bring you to the generating signature code page. Click on the Generate HTML code link, you will be provided with 2 options. You can either generate a code for just the signature only, or generate a combine code of your signature with additional information (optional) like your comapny name, contact #, email address, website url, just to name a few. My take is that the second option with added information is more suitable for email messages.

Once the HTML code of the signature is generated, you can insert it into your blog posts and/or your email template.

How to add your signature to individual Blogger blog post(manual).

Copy the signature HTML code. At the Blogger editor window, click on “Edit HTML”, and paste the code at the end of your post.

How to add your signature to every one of your Blogger blog posts(past, present and future posts).

At the Layout page, click on “Edit HTML” to edit the template. Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it by downloading the full template. Then check the box to expand widget templates. Scroll down or CTRL F to find the code , paste the signature code right after this piece of code. Then save the template and you are done!
You can add the signature to blogs(Blogger, LiveJournal and Wordpress), your posts on forums, to email messages(Outlook Express, Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, Apple Mail, Entourage MacMail) and on websites.

**Update (June 25, 2007): This post was selected in Nate Whitehill’s Powerful Posts of the week ending 24 June, 2007.