CyberSkill

Get a signature

Do not have one yet, or something changed? Start here.

Everyone at CyberSkill can have a signature on this site. If yours is not here yet, or something on it has changed, here is how to sort it out.

Just ask

The normal way. You need a GitHub account and nothing else.

  1. Open one of the forms below.
  2. Fill in your name, job title and email. Add a phone number if you want one on there.
  3. Drag your photo into the photo box. Anything square-ish works.
  4. Submit.
Request a signature Update my details

Or do it yourself

If you have used GitHub before. All of it happens in the browser - nothing to install, nothing to run.

  1. Copy src/people/_template.yml to src/people/your-name.yml and fill it in. That filename becomes your web address, so use lowercase letters and hyphens.
  2. Upload your photo to src/avatars/ with a matching filename.
  3. Open a pull request with both changes on one branch.
Full instructions

What happens next

Usually within a day.

  • Someone turns your request into a change and checks it.
  • Automatic checks confirm it renders correctly on a phone and a laptop, in light and dark mode, and that it survives what Gmail does to pasted markup.
  • Once it is merged the site rebuilds itself and your page appears under All signatures.
  • Open your page, press Verify & copy, and paste into Gmail.

Nothing you send can break anyone else's signature, and nothing reaches the live site until a person has looked at it.

What ends up public?

Your name, job title, work email, your photo, and the phone number if you give one. Your photo is served from a public web address, which is how images in email signatures work everywhere - a mail app has to be able to fetch it. Use a photo you are happy to have public, and leave it out if you would rather not.

I do not want my phone number on it.

Leave it out and the row disappears. Nothing else shifts. The same is true of the photo, the Vietnamese name line, and the social links.

What sort of photo?

A normal head-and-shoulders portrait, square-ish, 512 pixels or larger. It gets cropped to a circle automatically. If your photo is framed unusually - very wide, or you are off to one side - say so in your request and it will be adjusted by hand.

My name has accents. Will they show correctly?

Yes. Vietnamese diacritics are checked on every build, in every browser engine, and a missing character fails the build rather than shipping a blank box.

The images are not showing in my email.

Most mail apps block images until you allow them, and some people keep them blocked permanently. That is expected. Every line of your signature is real text, so nothing is lost and nothing moves - the layout is identical either way.

It looks slightly different in Outlook.

Outlook for Windows draws email through Microsoft Word, which ignores some styling. Links come out in Outlook's own blue instead of inheriting the surrounding colour, and the block is about four pixels shorter. Both are expected and neither can be prevented from the markup.

I pasted it and then my details changed.

Request the change, then paste again once your page updates. Gmail keeps its own copy of whatever you pasted, so an old signature stays old until you replace it.