Unfortunately Gmail doesnt support rich text editting in its signature settings. The plain text that it does allow is fine for a simple signature in a personal gmail account but my Gmail at work (Google Apps Premier Edition) was 10 lines long and looking ridiculous. I needed a professional looking signature.

Alas I have  just came across this awesome plug in for firefox which helps you easily assign your signature to your emails for both personal or business in the same application. Wisestamp is a handy tool that sits neatly in the bottom corner of your browser window. All you have to do is:

1. Go to http://wisestamp.com
2. Download Wisestamp
3. Restart your browser
4. Click on the ‘stamp’ icon at the bottom of your page
5. Choose ‘Edit Signature’
6. Get creative with the editing tools or Search for a template here: http://wisestamp.com/goodies/category/signature-examples/
7. Copy and paste the Signature style that you like
8. Toggle between Business and Personal to ammend details and add links to social networks
9. Apply and OK
10. The tool is automatically set to embed your signature into your email – however you can change this in your settings.

Remember those colourful little flags that we could use in outlook, well gmail have them too. You can add different coloured stars and exclamations, done ticks, etc; you just have to apply them.

Gmail Flags

Go to your email account, click on settings in the top right corner and select the ‘labs’ tab and enable the ‘Superstars’ feature. Once you enable it, dont forget to save it (at the very bottom of the list). Then go to the general tab and simply drop and drag the icons you want to use into the ‘in use’ row.

You can also set your signature to go directly under your response as well as add extra colours for your labels from here; they are all in the ‘labs’ section.