First of all, let me begin by saying OE supports a couple of types of signatures, there are plain text signatures, and there are HTML signatures. Because your settings in OE need to be set up as HTML to use Fluttrby Designs © Ready To Mail Stationery, we'll focus on HTML signatures here.Through the use of HTML you can add images & even sound to your signature with the use of some simple coding that I'll share with you. You can also add links to your e-mail or web pages too! So this makes the HTML signature the most desirable method to use. Depending on what type of layout you'd like to use for a signature will determine which HTML code your going to want to use, I have listed 4 codes below. All are changeable to suit your needs, but I can only offer support in using the ones posted here as the spectrum just gets too broad.

Make sure your Outlook Express is set up properly before you begin to add signatures, click here to set up your OE!

To begin let's make a folder to store your signatures in, this folder can be placed anywhere on your HardDrive, but you might want to keep it somewhere handy, so my suggestion would be go to My Documents and right click anywhere in that window and select NEW / FOLDER this will present you with a New Folder, you need to right click on the folder and select Rename this will highlight the New Folder so you can type in your folders name, call it OE Signatures. If you have a small image (keep in mind that these images add weight in Kb's to your email so try to choose ones that are less than 20 KB in size and under 200 px in dimension) you'd like to use with your signature you can drag it into this folder too so as to keep these these components all together or perhaps you already have a folder full of images elsewhere your going to want to use, either way you need to know the EXACT location (file path) to those images and sounds if used.
Now we're ready to write the HTML that makes it all happen.

Both the Location and the file name are required to create the FILE PATH for the HTML to work correctly. Copy/Paste is much more reliable than trying to retype what you've read, trust me I know lol
So when you enter your entire file path it will look like the top and bottom combined all on one line like this:

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\New\MySigs\FDClownSig.gif matching of course your path on your computer, this one matches mine as highlighted above.

When your finished making all of the changes you wish to make go to File/Save AS and name your new signature file whatever you choose, storing it in your new folder as well. This will leave your original Blank HTML file intact for future use! Now lets go to your folder and click on the file so it opens in Internet Explorer and you can have a peek at what you've done!

As you will see there are more lines added to this one for more links and text, these can be easly deleted if you don't want to use them.

A helpful page for choosing a wide range of color codes to use can be found here. as well as many other places online, just run a search for color code chart. Also check out my tutorial for picking custom colors here.