While you have Gmail loaded in your browser, in the very top-right corner there is a little cog icon (next to your email address). Click it and then select Mail settings.
Click on the Labs tab, and in the Search for a lab: field, begin typing signature. Soon, the Labs will narrow down to Signature Tweaks, which allows you to place the signature before your quoted text, under your reply or forward message. Enable it, and your done.
Now I'm sure some of you using Google Apps (you're using a custom email like yourname@businessname.com) and you can't see Labs in the tabs available in your Mail settings.
That's because you, or your Google Apps Administrator, needs to enable Labs. Hopefully you'll be able to do this yourself.
You can get to it one of two ways.
- Log into the Administrators Gmail account associated with your domain, then click the link Manage this domain, top right of the browser.
- Log directly into the Domain management console at http://google.com.au/a using the Administrator username and password.
Select the Settings tab, far right.
Select Email down the left hand menu and tick Enable Gmail Labs for my users. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
NOTE: Labs takes a while to enable! Don't panic if you don't see it straight away. It took about 20mins for it to appear on my Google Apps Mail.
Go back to your Gmail and repeat the steps above: click the cog, Mail settings, Labs tab, type signature, enable Signature Tweaks.
Try it out by replying to an email. Boo-yah! Your signature is above the quoted text, below your reply! Where it fricken should be!
