Animated GIFs have made their way to email signatures. That’s great – a well-designed animation appeals directly to our lizard brain, making us notice a moving object much better than any static image. What’s not so great is that the line between “attention-grabbing” and “extremely annoying” is finer than you might think.
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Displaying images as attachments is a common problem. The solution is not so obvious, because there can be many reasons for that. The problem may occur if the message gets converted to the plain text format or if there are issues with the HTML code of an email signature. Finally, it can be caused by a specific Outlook configuration. In this article, I will show you how to make sure images are not displayed as attachments in each of those situations.
The most common reason for images displaying as attachments is that some messages are sent in the plain text format instead of the HTML format. As the plain text format does not support embedding or viewing images, all images are automatically attached to the message. Continue reading
