Just go to your "Account" in hotmail and in the space "Signature" empty it and past in italics (as example) Then click "preview" and you will get the idea, a popup comes up to see what it will look like in your post
DO NOT SAVE in signature or it will become your sig just go back to HotCopper when you get the idea
Then save those syntax's to a text file and change when you want
after a time you will add HTML code to this text file
************** you can even have video put in (This is 12 meg and will require waiting for it to fully download before it will play 30 minutes for a 56K connection) http://www.hotcopper.com.au/post_thread.asp?fid=1&tid=71477&sym=MSC#187276