If you don’t have access to a web server you can always upload it to a free image hosting site such as TinyPic. I always just upload the image I want to my web server. You need to have your image hosted online somewhere. This is because the temporary link breaks. A lot of people just copy and paste their image into the signature block and while it might appear like it works… most likely when you send it out the receiver is going to get a big blank square with a red “X” in it. You need to have that image hosted online somewhere. Keep to our recommendations on email signature design and use appropriately sized image such as social buttons, or a nice banner.Ok, and so here is the part where 85% of people mess up. ie &sz=w50īut remember… if you’re using these images for an email signature make sure you don’t go crazy. We typically recommend using either width or height and let Google deal with the ratio for you. You can also add &sz=w at the end of the URL to resize your image so that you’re not sending large files within your email signature. You’re now good to go and embed this modified URL within your HTML. In this example, Google provided us with the URL to access the image directly we simply need to change the “file/d/” to “thumbnail?id=” like this. So we need to perform a little modification of the URL in order to access the image directly. Unfortunately, this URL can’t yet be used within our HTML code as it opens the Google image viewer. This will give you the URL and the unique file id. This is done by selecting the file, now right click and select “Get link“. Now in order to embed the image within your code, you’re going to have to get the file id from the URL. Now any files stored in the folder will be accessible from your website or 3rd party email signature HTML code. This is done by changing the Sharing permissions on the folder:. We believe that the most secure option for this is to create a folder which anyone with the link can view. Create a Public Folderįirst, we would recommend that you create a folder within Google Drive which is accessible from the Internet. So here is our tip which allows you to securely use Google Drive as a repository for all your images. However, we still get asked if it’s possible to use images store in Google Drive for a website or a 3rd party email signature applications. This article has been updated as Google has recently changed the way they show file ids.īack in 2014 Google made it much easier to add images store to Google Drive to Gmail signatures.
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