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Helping Your Users to Create HTML Signatures

I was a little stuck for new Notes material for this blog until I read the brilliant Alan Lepofsky's article on creating Signature files for Lotus Notes . Full URL of his Article http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/creating-a-simple-html-signature-file His article provides a simple step-by-step guide to creating a signature using HTML and is very easy to follow but, as Notes Administrators and Developers, I feel that we have greater responsibility to protect our lower-level users from any kind of programming, so I'm going to post some code that I've been using. Where to put the Code Originally, I had this code built-in to our corporate mail template. You can do this if you want but the problem with building things into the mail template is that you have to remember to carry them through to the any new templates whenever you upgrade. A more elegant solution IMHO is to put the code into an instruction manual. My Instructions The following are the instruction