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Would you like to sign your blog posts in cursive?

I read a post somewhere about signing your blog posts with your signature, and I searched for it on Active Rain but couldn't find it anywhere. Then it dawned on me that the person who wrote that post was the one that always signs with her signature, Lorelle on Wordpress.

I found the post that she wrote about making a signature and went to MyLiveSignature, where you can do a signature FREE, choosing from about 120 different fonts. It won't be exactly like your signature, but you can find one that expresses your personality. You can also get an animated signature, or scan your real one and they will make it for you, although both those options cost some money.

I played around with it for a while, and here is what I came up with for my signature. It is contemporary looking, but simple; not loud or gaudy. Maybe classy, but not stodgy. Maybe that is just what I think it should be.

Perhaps this one would be better?

As you can see, you can change the font, the color, the words, the slope, and the size and make it suit the theme of your blog. Here is another one if I want to be more formal

Or sassy and bold perhaps?

Here is another version; I could have hundreds if I want!

The directions are easy to follow and I found that if I want to save it as HTML so that I can post it in my blog, I just copy and paste the code. I copied it into Notepad and filed it away, so the next time I need to use it again I can copy and paste once more. I might have copied into Word but my other blog is a Wordpress blog and Word and Wordpress aren't compatible. There may be easier ways to do it but that will work for me.

One word of caution, when posting on AR, I usually write in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) versus HTML, and to add the signature you need to be in HTML. So write your post, save it as a draft, then go back into the edit mode again and click on the HTML tab at the top. Paste your html code for the signature at the end, save again, and this time publish if you are ready.

Have fun, and show me your new signatures that you came up with in the coments below. Many thanks to Lorelle!

Posted by Summit County, Colorado Realtor l Joanne Hanson on 06/23/2007 12:17 AM

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159 Comments on Would you like to sign your blog posts in cursive?

JUN

2007

How fun! I want to go and play with all the signature choices. Thanks for sharing!

Interesting little add on to a post. Thanks for sharing the information.

That is awesome, Thanks for yet another free item for our business.

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is great!! I love having new toyps to play with!

oooh, hot pink! Now I know a little bit more about you Kimberly! Except how did you get it in the comments? When I asked you all to do that, I didn't realize there is no html editor button on the comment section. Did you save as BB code for emails in www.mylivesignature.com to do that?

Joanne - Love that - thanks for all the info on how to do it - gotta add it to my homework list :-)

Glad you like it; I wish I could figure out how to add it in the comments. The BB code from the website doesn't work either. Kimberly, help!

I like the idea of getting your own handwriting into a font, honestly. You don't want to sign everything here with one signature if it doesn't look like your true one at all.

Thanks Joanne! I love it, I've added it to the top of my list to do. We need something to spurce up our blogs!

Joanne

I am on my way there now, thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info. I will check it out. Hope it works on Microsoft Outlook too.

If you have journal writer you can write on almost anything. I have my clients sign listings etc, right on my computer screen.

Not sure I want people to see my real handwriting...but there it is.

Thank you for sharing the new sites, I have them book marked and I will check them out, thanks

Neat but I am not sure I want my signature on the internet. Not that it would be my full signature.

An irate ActiveRainer who obviously didn't sign in to leave a comment on someone else's blog gave me a tongue lashing and then signed his comment "Maureen" not as a signature but just in typing. I gotta tell you it was creepy coming home and reading the comment thread with one that seemed to be adressing me but signed by someone named Maureen. Happy hour?

I have always admired Lorelle's signature though...

Well. First we have pshishing and next we'll have to verify our posts with our signatures. Then we'll have pshishing authinticated by our signatures. Then we'll have Nigerian Banks using our signatures to make withdrawals from our accounts, verified by our signatures. Where will it end?

I love the idea...I'm going to play with it some.

I am with Marty - this is much better as I hate my own handwriting.

I am going to use it on my blog and my email!

This is quite a nice feature. If you don't want to use for signatures, you can use it for something else like a headline maybe. Thanks for sharing.

Sweet!! I was just reading someone else's post and they had a signature and I was going to go try and figure it out.

THANKS for sharing. Now, I'm off to make my own signature!!

Electronic signatures are commonly used now I think, but I am sure the real ones have some security features built into them. I think if I were to use my real signature here it would not be my full name, just my first name. I know a lot of people use the tablet to capture signatures on documents too. Good points though, Lenn and Maureen. I like the font you chose April. It works with your name really well. Thanks for stopping by everyone!

This is my handwriting and I use this on the Real Estate Shows Blog and Home Staging Shows Blog. It's just my writing scanned, and Jeff Turner altered it slightly so it looks like all of us on his blogs used the same pen. Love it, think I'll use it on my "real" blog, too! BTW, it's a .jpeg so I don't have to switch out of WYSIWYG.

I think it is a nice touch if you are trying to add a little personal flavor to your blog. A jpg would be lots easier! Then you could just insert it like you do a photo and you could move it around. You probably can if you know html too, but I know nothing and like it all done for me as much as possible!

OK this tool is way too cool for school! Thanks so much! I was just going to bounce around for a couple of minutes and now I am completely distracted. LOL!

Thanks,

angie vandenbergh

oh thank you so much! I had asked the question of how to do it and you answered my question.

Well this wasn't hard, I just right clicked on the signature, cut, then pasted! I was too worried about he html code and this was easy! I love all these different signatures.

JUN

2007

Hi Joanne - this is really cool, and I've bookmarked this post to create a signature for me, too! LOVE this!! Thanks for sharing, and I've enjoyed seeing the different signatures included in the comments here.....thanks!!

Ann

Joanne - this was fun to go into this site and play around with signatures! I made a few different ones for me - fun stuff and again, many thanks for sharing this site!

Ann Cummings

So which one are you going to use Ann? I kind of like the last one....

I came up with this - it's about as accurate as can be done without scanning a real one.

Or this one

red

The red one has a little more personality I think, and the blue is more formal....

Which one are you going to use?

Probably the red one for the most part. It's more the 'real' me. LOL I try not to take life too seriously - the days are better with a little levity.

red

I'll probably mix them up a bit, depending on my mood and the tone of my post.....

Too bad I can't use it to replace all of my handwriting!

Note the absence of guys posting here? Very few, and none has done any signatures. I guess we ladies are the only ones that will be using it. Often it is the guys that need a readable signature! ;-p

THANKS! I was wondering how everyone had these! :-)

JUN

2007

Checking to see if this works :)

it works as long as you copy and paste. You cannot use html code in the comments, apparently. Nice signatures Mary and Debbie!

Can't wait to try this! I am going to try to scan in my signature in also but I think I could find something close that would be easier . . . after all, I still write "exactly" like my second grade teacher taught me! Hummm . . . I'm sure that is a bad thing!

I got hit by my second grade teacher for my penmanship. Actually it was a posture thing, I was hunching over my desk so she hit me and knocked me down on the desk. I think I write better (particularly my signature) than I did in second grade.

Speaking of grade school, I had a teacher throw a piece of chalk at me once, to get my attention. Of course, when it hit me the rest of the class laughed. You would think that teachers would realize that humiliating children doesn't work too well. Hopefully today's teachers do. Things have changed a lot in 50 odd years. Maybe that kind of thing scars the kids for life and turns them into bloggers!

This is great thanks. Now let see what you think?

What a Royal kick in the pants.

I can't help but wonder if that comment is good or bad! Did I offend you by saying that there are few guys doing this, or were you happy to find it Bill?

JUN

2007

AWESOME! Thanks for the tip!

JUN

2007

Thank you for the tip.I was always wondering how some agents had cursive signatures in their blogs.

Joanne....I LOVE it....thanks. I'm going right now to get mine...

and here it is,,,,my first time to see it live on

ok..maybe larger...??

I love it....

Wow, we have some great signatures, and the guys showed up! Thanks everyone!

JUN

2007

Thank you Joanne! A really useful tip--I just might comment again using a different signature. : )

JUN

2007

thank you Joanne, here's mine

p.s. Love that area of CO. I spent my summer intership at Copper Mt. and lived in Leadville!

Now I am going to have to start watching all the blog posts to see who is using it. A lot of people have made their signatures and they all look very different from each other. I like that I can just copy and paste it into my document.

Bill, Copper is my favorite mountain to ski, but if you haven't been there for a while you won't recognize it as Intrawest bought it up and built lots condos. Leadville hasn't changed a whole lot though.... :)

I've bookmarked this. Thanks to Lexa's post I've just found it.

JUL

2007

Joanne,

I've book-marked because I definitely want to come back and create my signature. Looking forward to having a bunch of fun and a new signature. Thanks for the tip!

Joanne- thanks for the tip! I can't wait to play around with different signatures.

It is quick and easy and that is good!

Thanks for your comments.

JUL

2007

Joanne,

This is great! What a find - you and this software!

JUL

2007

Great post Joanne -

With as bad of handwriting as I have I need all the help I can get.

I'll still defer to my usual signature...

No wait! That's not it. There it is...

Seriously, we are graphical by nature.

A signature is a graphic - we recognize and relate to the things better "graphically".

Thanks for the cool new thingie, Joanne. Of course, I should be doing other things right now, darn it.

JUL

2007

Very nice! I've been looking for something like this since I've always wondered how do people do it. Great post!

Wow, that's really neat. So much fun to play around with -- all my friends, family, colleagues and clients will be jealous!!

Brian, Chris, Elizabeth, your signatures look great! And Mike.....so creative! It is nice to have a couple of alternatives.

Howdy Joanne

Congrats on a very good and helpful post

Have a good one

JUL

2007

Thanks for sharing. This is too neat!

Thank you for sharing this information. I have saved it and will return to it later.

Dale, I am glad you stopped by; I hope you can use it.

LaShon, yours is a great signature...very classy!

Hi Barbara, I always have trouble getting back to those bookmarks, but they always have useful information

JUL

2007

Hey Joanne, thanks so much for a great instructive post. I missed it the first time around but Renee pointed me this direction. I've got this on my to do list today so I'm excited to see the results. Thanks again!

Thanks to Renee and I am glad you found it Ryan. I will watch your posts for the results.

This is fun, I feel like a four year old with a new toy! Thank you!

What fun you had Griselda! Which one did you decide to use?

I guess...ALL OF THEM!!! :-)

Now, in the future I'll probably use only one at a time, and choose according to mood.

Thank you again for letting us know about this wonderful tool (toy?)!

JUL

2007

I like that one. Using colors is nice too; helps add to the personality.

OK Joanne, here's mine:

I like it Ryan! It is amazing how many different signatures we have seen. I have noticed several people using them now, both on AR and their outside blogs. I think it adds a personal touch.

JUL

2007

I agree Joanne. The signatures break up the squareness and standard look that all blogs have. Anything to make ourselves stand out from the rest. I'm also using this signature in my emails now. Looks pretty good.

I am glad you found it, and thanks to Lorelle from Wordpress for turning me on to the site in the first place.

JUL

2007

Great post! Thank you for sharing such a fun addition.

JUL

2007

Nice signature Julie! Thanks for coming by.

AUG

2007

Too cool! Thanks for the "how to!"
Mike Jones in Tucson

Thunderheads over Tucson in Monsoon season, also cool! Thanks Mike.

Just checked it out.. what a great tool for all correspondence as well as blogging! :-) Thanks!

AUG

2007

Joanne thank you so much . What a useful tool. I have my own font on my computer for handwritten type but this one I like and is more practical.

SEP

2007

Hi - I'm a little late to the party but still want to say thanks. A cautionary note comes to mind; I don't think I would want my scanned signature all over the web - that feels a bit risky to me.

I had to laugh at Maureen's comment about getting hit for her penmanship posture. I can't remember if it was second or third grade, Catholic school Montreal. But my homeword penmanship was not up to par so the nun sent me to the principal's office. I was ordered to hold out my hands where she proceeded to hit each with a strap - several times. It wasn't much fun!!! NOT in this day and age, thankfully.

Gail, I love your signature. I hadn't thought about potential issues with scanned signatures, so this works well. I didn't get hit with the strap for poor penmanship, (only for behaviour infractions!) but I did have to practice over and over using the old Palmer method. We had to hold our pens properly and move our arms to write, not our fingers! I do remember that much. I am glad you stopped by.

Bookmarked..I'll be doing this tonight..thanks for the post.

LOL - Joanne: possessed with a rich imagination as well as a deep seeded curiosity, I can readily imagine "behavior infractions". I can see it now - NEW GROUP ...................and what makes a good realtor.................beyond grade school behavior infractions. Just remember you heard it here first :-)

Tracy, come back and show us your new signature!

Gail, I think it was mostly talking while the teacher was talking...maybe passing notes!

Hi Joanne. thanks for sharing. I was wondering how people did that!

I wondered too, until I read it on Lorelle's blog. Thanks for stopping by.

SEP

2007

I love it! Thanks Joanne, I am going to get one now!

Here we go-

That is a good one Chris! It is different from others I have seen and that is what I like about it.

It is funny how an old post comes back to life once someone finds it at the bottom of the pile...

OCT

2007

I LOVE it!!

Ginger

OCT

2007

A good one Ginger!

NOV

2007

This is great. I will have to go and try this too! Thanks for sharing.

I hope you can use it Brian. I see lots of them on AR any more.

NOV

2007

Woo Hoo! I'm excited about this and can't wait to go try it out. If I can make it work because I'm such a "goof" at this sort of thing, I'll be back to post my signature! Thank you for the great information and examples. Really nice.

Ok Donna, I want to see it when you are done!

NOV

2007

Good post. This was something I was looking for. Thank you for the clear directions.

Thanks Seth, I am glad you find it useful.

I have been looking for something like this for a long time now. Great Find!!!

NOV

2007

Scott, I will watch for you to use it in your posts to your blog.

NOV

2007

Cool idea, and who would have ever thought, my name displayed in a legiable signature!

Christine, legible is good! Maybe a few doctors could use it.... ;)

NOV

2007

Joanne, I've been looking for this information and will have to play around with it and see if it works for me. Thanks.

NOV

2007

Joeanne, looks like this blog keeps giving...giving..and giving. Thanks for this post with easy to follow instructions. Now, I'm off to experiment. :)

NOV

2007

Hi Joanne. I always wondered how that was done. Thanks for sharing and keep doing what you do.

NOV

2007

How do you save a blog as a draft without submitting blog? I must be missing something, but I'm new so the guidance would help.

If you have anyone coming to the Asheville area, send them to me to take a look at this 6.36 acre lot under $225,000.

This is so cool! Thanks!

Chris Fisher - Staging Websites

NOV

2007

Joanne: Thanks for the great tech tip. It is amazing how much there is to learn! Regards!

(I did get my signature set up but just haven't figured out how to get it into the comments. I'll get that worked out though.) Mary

DEC

2007

Gary, I will have to go and check out your blog and see if you are using it.

Lola, it is funny how it keeps being found and coming back up to the top again. I will check out yours again too...I am already subscribed to it anyway.

Vincent, I have been forgetting to use it myself lately..it is easy to use, so it should also be easy to remember!

Don, just save your blog post and in the pull down menu at the lower left side of the comment section, just click on "draft". When you are ready to publish it, then change it to public. Your listings will get seen more if you post them under listings than if you put them in comments. Thanks for visiting! Join the newbies group for lots of hints; there are plenty to read!

Chris, your signature looks great, thanks for sharing!

Mary, all you have to do is copy and paste, using whatever method you prefer to do that.

DEC

2007

Wow!! Thanks for sharing this! I am learning everyday!!

Joanne~ I've been using this one for a while now, I just wish (and so does everyone else) that my own handwriting was as good!

DEC

2007

Chris, a great signature! I am glad you found it useful.

DEC

2007

Very Cool! I've been on ActiveRain way too long today but I have to check out this site!

Thanks!

DEC

2007

HI Debbie, I hope you found one that you like. There are so many options that I am sure you did.

DEC

2007

Tracy Santrock's Signature

Thank you! Thank you!! Now I can add my own personal touch!!

I'll thank you first, then try it! I may take awhile:) I'll come back with it! Thank you!

DEC

2007

Tracy, that is great signature. I am sure your clients will love it.

Frances, I am anxious to see the one you do!

Joanne,

Thanks for your answer to my question above. I have learned so much in the month since I sent you a comment question, including about where and how to put my listings on AR. In fact, I'm getting ready to start a new group devoted to listings and market reports combined.

One thing I noticed about you is that you make the effort of replying to your commenters. For that.....thanks.

Hi Don, at least it didn't take me a month to respond this time! That is what AR is all about...learning; I have learned huge amounts here myself. Have you checked out the other listings groups? I started a vacation and second home property group without realizing that there was already one in existence, but it turned out that my group is very different from that one anyway. There are all kinds of niches and it helps to be able to share with people in your own niche. Good luck!

FEB

2008

Sweet, I will post mine after I play with it!

I am anxious to see it Robert! Be sure to come back and post it.

FEB

2008

Another great tool.

Thanks for sharing,

Keep the winter chill away, visit us in warm Green Valley and Sahuarita AZ

Glad you can use it Ralph. I have found it very useful myself.

MAR

2008

Thanks for the link, I've been wondering how to do that.

APR

2008

I'm off to get a new signature! Thanks for posting this.

How cool is this. I love this. I will be adding my new signature to my website shortly. What as nice personal touch. Now I can't figure out how to get the signature into this message. Help!

Do I paste the html code here? Let's see if it works.

Joanne, thanks for a great post. What a fun thing to experiment with.

Brian Bartley

Hey Joanne-Lots of great ideas...I have bookmarked your great post and will check out these signatures...thanks for sharing!

Terri, I tried all that too, and found that the old right click, copy, and then click and paste where you want it works best. I just copy and paste it from one blog post to another.

Brian, I am glad you like it. I use it all the time! Terry, there are so many people sharing things on AR. It is a great way to learn a lot! I have learned so much from the people here, it is amazing.

Ok, here is the copy and paste.... hum I would think there is a better way. But I'll take this for now. Thanks Joanne!

MAY

2008

Can't wait to give it a try. Thanks, I will do it right away

This will be fun to use but Maureen's comment does make you wonder.

MAY

2008

Thanks for the post and information, I bookmarked for a later project. I do like the way a personalized signature looks on the blogs and it could come in handy for lots of projects.

MAY

2008

Pam, it is fun! I use it on my outside blog and it looks nothing like my real signature.

Karen, I hope you can use it. I have seen lots of them pop up on AR.

I went to my live signature but had so much fun I still haven't picked one!

Tina, it took me forever to decide on just one! But why do you need only one? You can use it for a particular mood you are in that day perhaps.... or an attitude you want to convey on the end of an email or post. Lots of possibiities here!

MAY

2008

Joanne,

I just went to live signature. Boy it is really hard to choose. Maybe I'm going to have to do several.

Joanne - really cool. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to try and decide on one.

Thanks, I played with it a bit and will no doubt use this.

AUG

2008

Thanks for the info! I love Lorrelle's signature. Couldn't figure out how she did that one but it is great.

will check it out -- I have been looking for ways to have a unique signature.

Thanks for sharing - Very good - I will create a signature soon!

OOohh! I can't wait to go play, too!

SEP

2008

Thanks ... I love this

Joanne, Thanks bookmarking to play later. Thanks! I would think twice about a "real" signature though. Might make it too easy to steal identity.

Sorry for my delay in responding to all of you, but thanks for reading my post, and I am glad you can use it!

SEP

2008

Thanks Joanne - this was fun to play with

NOV

2008

Thanks for sharing, Joanne. I appreciate the tutorial.

NOV

2008

Joanne~ I think I tried months ago to do the live signature thing and couldn't get it to go on my post... But I do have my active Vickie signature :)

Active Vickie

NOV

2008

That is a great signature Vickie! I just copy and paste my signature whereever I need it and that seems to work ok.

NOV

2008

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