Rotating FeedBurner signature in Mail.app
FeedBurner 
, the RSS feed management service, offers site owners a fancy HTML signature that displays a rotating and clickable series of your most recent posts.
A member of the FeedBurner team posted instructions in the FeedBurner forum on how to set this signature up in Outlook Express, Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird.
I am the kind of person who likes to think that whatever Thunderbird can do, Mail can do better.
So here are the instructions for constructing the rotating FeedBurner signature in Mail.app which actually looks quite nice:
After turning the feature on at FeedBurner, you get some HTML code. Copy it to the clipboard.
Then all you have to do is follow Melvin Rivera’s instructions for making a CSS signature, but using the HTML code, pasted into a text editor, as your template.
All done.
I’m not very good at marketing and promotion. If I were, and if I weren’t faintly opposed to HTML in email, I am sure that I would think this was very cool and a useful way to promote one’s site.
Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, feedburner, HTML, mail.app, signaturesRelated posts
November 7th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
[...] Most usefully of all, it allows you to add HTML and CSS to signatures without all the messing around with cryptic files with names like 92768111-8FA1-4572-977D-C94D7A5FDB9A.webarchive that was involved in previous signature hacks like this and this . [...]
December 10th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Looked promising! I tried this and ended up with a rotating image that looked right, but as the days passed it became apparent that it was only a static version of what should have been a dynamic sig.
Has anyone found a way to embed the dynamic image as a .sig?