Tired of that plain text e-mail signature that I’ve been using for years, I recently endeavored to create something a bit more professional and refined for my e-mails.

Apple Mail allows you to control the font, color, and even insert images (which are included as attachments) into a signature. But it doesn’t give you direct control of the HTML and CSS, nor does it provide a solution for including images in your e-mail without them being attachments.

These limitations meant that I first had to design the HTML and CSS of my new signature outside of Mail, and then save that HTML file as a Mail signature. Here’s how it’s done.
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Video on the web has been catapulted into popularity in the last few years. YouTube gave a kick in the pants to web developers, video producers, and everybody else in the marketing industry, showing us that the public is ready for much more than the text and graphics of yesterday’s web.

In this article, I hope to provide some valuable information to both web developers and video publishers. I’ll cover the rapid evolution from old RealMedia to today’s Flash-based players, as well as some of the most recent updates to the codecs available in Flash. Read the rest of this entry »