Bitesize Blogger: Adding a signature to your posts…

A quick way to personalise blog posts is to add a signature at the bottom. To start, you’ll need a jpeg of your signature saved to an image hosting service. (You can create one in Publisher, Paint, Photoshop etc or on free image editing sites like PicMonkey. I can do a seperate step by step for that if there’s an appetite for it) The image needs to be sized according to what you want the final size to be. (There are ways around this using html but it just makes it ALOT simpler with the coding if the image is sized beforehand) Here’s mine, saved in Picasa…

You’ll need the url for your image. Note the settings. Original size (mine is 100px) and set to “image only (no link)”….

Via your blogger dashboard click on “settings” then “posts and comments”…

Then next to “post template” click “add” as per the screenshot below…

This will open up a box. Any coding that you put in here will be applied automatically to any future posts. (It won’t change any previous posts)….

You’ll need to copy the code in the box below. Click in the box and then press CTRL + A followed by CTRL + C…
Once you’ve pasted this code into the box for your post template, you’ll need to replace the highlighted blue text with the URL for your blog, and the URL for your signature jpg. DO NOT delete or replace the speech marks. They need to stay!

To paste the code click in the box and press CTRL + V. Then replace the text I’ve indicated, with your URL’s. You can see mine in the screenshot below. Once you’re done, click “save settings” in the top right hand corner of the page….

The next time you come to write a blog post, your signature will be there waiting 🙂

Any Q’s, drop me a line!