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Put your gamercard in Outlook

Filed in gamercard, January 15, 2007, 7:27 pm by Jeff

Recently, I added my gamercard to my email signature at work. Other people took notice and asked me how I did it. It’s not a difficult process, just a lengthy one.

Step 1: Get a signature…

Visit one of the free online gamercard services and signup. Options I know of:

When you signup, you’ll get a URL to an image for your card. For example, I use MyGamerCard.net and my URL is: http://card.mygamercard.net/sig/Fry.png

Step 2: Add it to Outlook…

I’ve tested these steps on both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. Here’s the process:

  1. Edit your signature in Outlook. In Outlook 2003, navigate to Tools - Options - Mail Formats tab - Signatures button. I don’t recall the path in Outlook 2007, but it is similar.
  2. Create a new signature and give it a name. You can base it off a blank template. Enter some placeholder text “blah”. Click Finish.
  3. In Outlook 2003, you’ll end up on the Create Signature screen which shows a preview of the signature. In Outlook 2007 you’ll be on the same screen, but have rich editing options. The signature you’re looking at is actually stored as an HTML file.
  4. Open the text editor of your choice and edit this file. It is %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures\[signature name].htm
  5. Now, insert the required HTML and save the file. If you flip back to Outlook you should see the changes. For example, in my signature I use:

<a href=”http://profile.mygamercard.net/Fry”><img width=”340″ height=”40″ border=”0″ alt=”Gamertag: Fry” src=”http://card.mygamercard.net/sig/Fry.png” /></a>

Some tips:

  • Link your image to your profile on Xbox.com or on the service you’re using to generate the image (see above).
  • Keep your image small and lightweight. Flashy or large images will distract readers from the rest of the content in your email.

Finally, remember that the image you specify will be downloaded at the time you begin composing the mail. The image downloaded at that time is saved in the mail. So the statistics you see aren’t “live”, they’re accurate only when you began composing the message.

Frag on.

– Fry