Ed, ENTS. To add. Mom could also use on of those sites like PhotoBucket, etc to store blank tags and a link to that site could be posted to ENTS. That might save Ed some work. Anyway.
JP On Jan 16, 11:01 am, James Parton <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > My mother, Joyce Hayes has seen many of the posts we have done here on ENTS > and has quite an interest in the outdoors herself, however she has made the > comment a time or two that she did not think she could do that tree measuring > stuff. However she has shown an interest in ENTS in other ways. > > ENTS is supposed to be about trees. In all aspects. Not only in documentation > but in art, folklore etc, as Bob has said. Anyway, my mother has been into > making Signature Tags ( Sig-Tags ) for short, for quite a while. For anyone > who don't know what sig-tags are, they are small personalized images that > are inserted into the body of the e-mail at the end where you would put your > name or signature. Sort of a personal fancy way of doing it. They are > inserted the same way as you would insert a gif or emoticon into an e-mail. I > occaisonally see members use emoticons in e-mails on the list. Would there be > a demand for this in ENTS or would it be better suited for the Ning Primal > Forests groups or none at all? > > Naturally, if mom joined the list she would do ones only using trees or > forest life in accordance with ENTS " treeish " nature. > > The graphics to do sig-tags are found online, or you can use your own > photos. You should use images that are uncopyrighted or in the public domain. > They are a number of sig-tag groups online to get blank images to do the > tags. Mom uses PhotoShop Elements 6 to do the editing and adding of the name > and effects. > > To make tags for the group mom would post blank images to the group and if > someone liked one they would request that image personalized with their name. > Then mom would send them their finished tag. A part of the Entstrees list or > ENTS website could even be set up to do this. Again, only an idea. Ed? > > Yahoo mail, which I use for ENTS does not have a way that I know of to insert > image files into an e-mail from files on your computer, even though it has > its own Insert Emoticon part built in. However other e-mail programs like > Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Incredimail and probably Mozilla Thunderbird > can do this and use sig-tags. > > I can make both sig-tags and stationery letters and still do them on occaison > but it is not really my thing to do. Mom really likes it. I just wonder if > there is a place or demand for a tagger in the group? Mom is thinking about > joining if there is an interest in it in ENTS and I told her I would bring it > up in a discussion. > > By the way. Mom is the caretaker of the Hayes Maple, a huge > single-trunked Silver Maple on her property that is over 15 feet cbh! > > I have attached a couple of sig-tag images I have done to give you an idea > of what they look like. Remember, I am only sending them as an attachment > only because I cannot insert them at the end of the e-mail, using Yahoo as it > should be done. Of course only one is needed at the end. > > > Just an idea, > > > James Parton > > > > > > White > 86KViewDownload > > Boonie_Tag.jpg > 100KViewDownload
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