Tuesday, November 11, 2014

TUTORIALS

HOW TO ADD QR CODES TO YOUR E-MAIL SIGNATURES

Learning about QR Codes will definitely excite you. The ability to be innovative with this definitely makes a difference. Another advantage you ultimately have over others who know about the QR Code is your ability to code so much information on the QR Code image.

At the end of this short tutorial, you will be able to add QR Codes to your e-mail signature.

STEP 1. You need to know what e-mail signature is. Whenever you send e-mail, you need to put your name and contact below the e-mail. Something like:

This is an e-mail Signature.

You can set your e-mail signature on your e-mail account, with this you do not have to type your contact each time you send mails. Besides, you can add quotes to this signature and of course a qr-code.

STEP 2. You need to know how to set your e-mail signature. This is very simple.
First, login in to your Gmail account,
Click once on Settings on the top, right hand side of your Gmail account with this icon:


The drop down menu displays the following options


On the drop down, click on settings. The settings page will open, similar to this:


On this page, you have the opportunity do edit the settings of your e-mail. Among other things you can add a picture to your Google account, apart from from the e-mail Signature that could be made permanent. Scroll down to signature.



By default, No signature radio button is checked, click on the radio button below no signature radio button.
Type your name and Contact, you can also add quotes, etc

STEP 3: Now that you know how to customize your e-mail signature, the next step is learning how to create QR Code. This is equally very simple. You can do this on https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/ by copying and pasting the texts you want to convert to QR Code. The created QR Code appears thus:

STEP 4: Click on the share button, another page appears similar to the one below:



STEP 5: Copy the image url, Go back to Gmail Settings page in Step 2. Click
the insert image button




STEP 6: Paste the image url and click on OK.

Sometimes this mighty not work immediately, just click on medium.

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